He was appointed joint secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in 1921. Sahib Sihgh, now commonly known as Professor Sahib Singh, took part in the Gurdwara Reform movement in the twenties of the century. In 1917, he joined as a lecturer in Sanskrit at Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Gujranwala. At the latter, he obtained his bachelor's degree. The untimely death of his father made the situation hard for him, yet he managed to plough through first Dyal Sirigh College, Lahore, and then the Government College, Lahore. As a youth, Natthu Rain was apprenticed to the village Maulawi, Hayat Shah, son of the famous Punjabi poet, Hasham, upon whom his royal patron, Ranjit Sirigh, the Maharaja of the Punjab, had settled a permanent jagir.Winning a scholarship at his middle standard examination, Natthu Ram joined the high school at Pasrur where he received in 1906 the rites of the Khalsa and his new name Sahib Singh.
Soon the family shifted to Tharpal, another village in the same district. He was originally named Natthu Ram by his father, Hiranand, who kept a small shop in the village. SAHIB SINGH, PROFESSOR (1892-1977), grammarian and theologian, was born on 16 February 1892 in a Hindu family of the village of Phattevali in Sialkot district of undivided Punjab.
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