Background
Jagat Singh Klair was born on 20 July 1884 at Nussi, a small village not very far from Beas in the Punjab, India. He received his education in the Mission School at Jalandhar and later took his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry. He joined the Punjab Agricultural College, Lyallpur, in 1911 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and retired as Vice Principal of the institution in 1943 receiving the title Sardar Bahadur for his meritorious service.
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