Early Life
Musafir was born on 15 January 1899 at Adhval, in Campbellpore district of Punjab province in British India (presently Attock District of Punjab Province in Pakistan).
He completed primary education from the village primary school and then went to Rawalpindi to pass the middle school examination. In 1918, he became a teacher at Khalsa High School, Kallar. His four years there as a teacher earned him the epithet Giani, Musafir being the pseudonym he had adopted. In 1922, he gave up teaching and joined the Akali agitation for Gurudwara reform. For taking part in the Guru ka Bagh agitation in 1922, he underwent imprisonment.
He was appointed to the highest religious office of Sikhism Jathedar of the Akal Takht from March 12, 1930 to March 5, 1931.
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