Ruchi Ram Sahni (Aged 85) was born on April 5, 1863, in Dera Ismail Khan, Punjab, India (now in Pakistan). He was a brilliant student who completed his matriculation from Government School Lahore in 1881 and earned his BA in 1884. He stood first in the University in December 1885.
In 1885, Sahni visited Presidency College, Calcutta, as a trainee meteorologist under Henry Francis Blanford and guest student where he interacted with leading personalities of Bengal. In 1886, he took up a position as an assistant professor of chemistry at Government College in Lahore and worked there until 1918. While working as a professor at Government College, Lahore, Ruchi Ram took a study leave in 1914 to research the variability in atomic weights of Lead and Bismuth under the mentorship of Kazimierz Fajans at Technische Hochshule of Karlsruhe, Germany (now known as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
A few months after his joining, Germany went into war against allied forces, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain. As a result, Ruchi Ram had to leave Germany hurriedly and went to Manchester in the lab of Ernest Rutherford, who was also a mentor of Prof. Kazimierz Fajans. On his return from Germany, Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni became more involved in political and social movements in Punjab.
Mahatma Gandhi deputed him to visit Guru ka Bagh Morcha (Amritsar district) in 1921, where the brave Sikhs offered non-violent resistance to the British and won the battle for possession of Gurdwara. Professor Sahni was so much involved in Sikh affairs of his time that he gave an eyewitness account of the Sikh struggle for the liberation of their religious shrines in his well-documented book “Gurdwara Reform Movement.”
He was a founder trustee of “The Tribune,” which started its publication from Lahore, and a founder member of Dyal Singh College and Library, also set up in Lahore. He passed away on June 3, 1948.
Ruchi Ram Sahni
(1863 – 1948) – (Punjab)
Ruchi Ram Sahni (Aged 85) was born on April 5, 1863, in Dera Ismail Khan, Punjab, India (now in Pakistan). He was a brilliant student who completed his matriculation from Government School Lahore in 1881 and earned his BA in 1884. He stood first in the University in December 1885.
In 1885, Sahni visited Presidency College, Calcutta, as a trainee meteorologist under Henry Francis Blanford and guest student where he interacted with leading personalities of Bengal. In 1886, he took up a position as an assistant professor of chemistry at Government College in Lahore and worked there until 1918. While working as a professor at Government College, Lahore, Ruchi Ram took a study leave in 1914 to research the variability in atomic weights of Lead and Bismuth under the mentorship of Kazimierz Fajans at Technische Hochshule of Karlsruhe, Germany (now known as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
A few months after his joining, Germany went into war against allied forces, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain. As a result, Ruchi Ram had to leave Germany hurriedly and went to Manchester in the lab of Ernest Rutherford, who was also a mentor of Prof. Kazimierz Fajans. On his return from Germany, Professor Ruchi Ram Sahni became more involved in political and social movements in Punjab.
Mahatma Gandhi deputed him to visit Guru ka Bagh Morcha (Amritsar district) in 1921, where the brave Sikhs offered non-violent resistance to the British and won the battle for possession of Gurdwara. Professor Sahni was so much involved in Sikh affairs of his time that he gave an eyewitness account of the Sikh struggle for the liberation of their religious shrines in his well-documented book “Gurdwara Reform Movement.”
He was a founder trustee of “The Tribune,” which started its publication from Lahore, and a founder member of Dyal Singh College and Library, also set up in Lahore. He passed away on June 3, 1948.
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