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Saint Nihal Singh
Journalist who lived in London in the 1910s
Other names
St Nihal Singh
Location(s)
East Dulwich, London
SE22 0PN
United Kingdom
About
Born in 1884, St Nihal Singh was a journalist. He lived and travelled through the US, Canada and Japan as well as living in Britain with his wife, Cathleyne. He was educated at Punjab University. Saint Nihal Singh was a prolific writer for American, British and Indian publications.
Surendranath Banerjea, Kedar Nath Das Gupta, James Ramsay Macdonald, Motilal Nehru, George Russell (AE), N. C. Sen, Cathleyne Nihal Singh (wife), Rabindranath Tagore, Rathindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats.
India's Fighting Troops (London: George Newnes, 1914)
India's Fighters: Their Mettle, History and Services to Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1914)
Progressive British India, Manuals for Christian Thinkers series (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1914)
Japan's Modernization, Manuals for Christian Thinkers series (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1914)
The King's Indian Allies: The Rajas and Their India, with illustrations (London: Sampson Low & Co., 1916)
India and the War (London: Britain & India Association, 1918)
Ruling India by Bullets and Bombs: Effect of the Doctrine of Force upon the Future of Indo-British Relations (London: Saint Nihal Singh, 1920)
(with Cathleyne St Nihal Singh) 'Dry' America: An Object-Lesson to India (Madras: Ganesh, 1921)
Ceylon: New and Old (Colombo: Ceylon Government Railway, 1928)
Shree Bhagvat Sinhjee: The Maker of Modern Gondal (Gondal: Golden Jubilee Committee, 1934)
Hofmeyr, Isabel, 'The Idea of "Africa" in Indian Nationalism: Reporting the Diaspora in The Modern Review 1907–1929', South African Historical Journal 57.1 (2007), pp. 60–81
Letters to Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935), Viceroy of India 1921–26, from St Nihal Singh (1921), Mss Eur F118/8/35–37, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Letter from Clifford Sharp to St Nihal Singh, 1 Sept. 1915, New Statesman – First World War Correspondence, Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library
South Asian American Digital Archive, https://www.saada.org/
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
