Sant Nihal Singh, Devangshu Datta

 

Sant Nihal Singh, often also called Saint Nihal Singh, was a journalist who travelled across the US, Canada and Britain with his wife Cathleyne, bringing Indians as well as readers in other countries stories from around the world. Born in 1884 and educated at Punjab University, he wrote prolifically for American, British and Indian publications. His articles in The Modern Review, which he wrote for regularly, include ones on subjects as varied as Indian students’ issues in America, race and racial politics in the US, Ceylon’s – or Sri Lanka’s – shifting political landscape, Indians in Canada and the Englishwomen’s battle for the vote. Books by Singh include India’s Troops (1914) and Ruling India By Bullets and Bombs (1920). You can read more about him and his work here.

 

Devangshu Datta is consulting editor and science and technology correspondent at the Business Standard. He is an editor, along with Nilanjana S. Roy and Anikendra Nath Sen, of Patriots, Poets and Prisoners.

Stories by the author:

The Modern Review Special: An Indian MP in the British Parliament