DYAL SINGH COLLEGE
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DYAL SINGH COLLEGE was founded in accordance with the will of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, one of the greatest sons of Punjab, in Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh belonged to the Shergil or Gill clan of Sardars of Majitha village near Amritsar. He is also well-known as the Founder of The Tribune and one who bequeathed his largely self-earned assets including prestigious
buildings in Lahore and lands in Amritsar, Lahore and Gurdaspur districts worth about Rs.30 lakhs in 1898 to two trusts which established Dyal Singh College and Dyal Singh Public Library in Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh Majitha
was a great philanthropist and lover of education. A man of great vision and action, he donated all his assets for the propagation of education. He had an unusually farsighted vision. He wanted to generate a scientific outlook in the minds of the common people who suffered from blind faith and superstition. He wanted to eradicate orthodox and irrelevant views.
A little lesser known fact is that Sardar Dyal Singh was one among the 17 "good men and true" who decided in 1884 to found the Indian National Congress. He sailed for England in 1874, and in his interactions with intellectual luminaries there, he gained an enormous intellect. While in India, he came into contact with many architects of Modern India such as Rabindranath Tagore, Swami
Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mahadev Ranade, which influenced his beliefs
and thought processes.
After independence, the torch of his three Trusts was kept alive in India. In the field of education,
one college was established at Karnaland another in Delhi by late Dewan Anand Kumar, an eminent
educationist and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Punjab University.