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{{Infobox writer 
| name = G. B. Singh
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* [[Historian]]
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| genre = [[History]], [[Political Science]]
| movement = [[Literary realism|Realism]]
| notableworks = ''[[Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity]]'', ''[[Gandhi Under Cross Examination]]''
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'''G. B. Singh''' is the author of ''[[Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity]]'', a biography of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]<ref name="kansas1">
{{cite news
|newspaper=The Kansas City Star
|date=January 2, 2005
|title=Gandhi as a racist doesn't add up
|first=Katie
|last=Volin
|page=1
}}</ref><ref>[http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/gandhi_mask.htm Issue No.17, August 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228114504/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/gandhi_mask.htm |date=2007-12-28 }}</ref> and ''[[Gandhi Under Cross Examination]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.conspiracyculture.com/events_Gandhi.html |title=Conspiracy Culture - Reviewing Gandhi Under Cross Examination |access-date=2010-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718083437/http://www.conspiracyculture.com/events_Gandhi.html |archive-date=2010-07-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career==
Singh, shortly after immigrating from India, applied to serve in the U.S. Army in 1979. Although there had been Sikhs who had enlisted in the U.S. Military previously, Singh was the first to go the officer route with his turban and beard intact. A [[periodontist]], Singh served in the [[U.S. Army]] as a [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]], one of a small number of [[Sikh]]s allowed to retain articles of faith, grandfathered in after a change in policy in 1984 forbidding soldiers from exhibiting their religion with "conspicuous" clothing or style of hair or beard. He is the highest-ranking Sikh to have served active duty with a turban in the U.S. Army, alongside Colonel Sekhon who served in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Although Singh retired from the U.S. Army in 2007, he is still actively involved in supporting rights for future Sikhs to keep their articles of faith in the military.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/03/25/36339-sikh-soldiers-allowed-to-serve-retain-their-articles-of-faith/
|title=Sikh Soldiers allowed to serve, retain their articles of faith
|accessdate=2011-01-18
}}</ref>

In an interview Singh said that he became interested in studying [[Hinduism]] while a student of [[political science]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]].<ref name="sikhspectrum">
{{cite web
|url = http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/gbsingh_int.htm
|title = Interview by Manbir Singh Chowdhary
|access-date = 2011-01-18
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100725192848/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/gbsingh_int.htm
|archive-date = 2010-07-25
}}</ref> In 1983, while watching the film ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' and after reading an article "The Gandhi Nobody Knows" by [[Richard Grenier (newspaper columnist)|Richard Grenier]], he began his investigation into Gandhi's life, which led to the book ''[[Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity]]''.<ref name="sikhspectrum"/>

==Selected writings==
*''[[Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity]]''
*''[[Gandhi Under Cross Examination]]''

==Personal life==
Singh has two daughters and a son. His family currently resides in Colorado. One of his daughters, Serene Singh, is a [[Rhodes Scholar]] at [[the University of Oxford]], the founder of the National Sikh Youth Program, and former Miss Teen Colorado. In 2020, his other daughter, Naureen Singh, joined the [[United States Air Force]], making headlines as one of the first second-generation of [[Sikhism in the United States|Sikh-Americans]] to join the [[United States Armed Forces]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kaur |first=Sona |date=6 July 2020 |title=Lieutenant Daughter & Colonel Father: Two Generations of Sikh Americans Serving in the US Armed Forces |work=Sikh24 |url=https://www.sikh24.com/2020/07/06/lieutenant-daughter-colonel-father-two-generations-of-sikh-americans-serving-in-the-us-armed-forces/}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Modern Sikh writers}}

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AvijitDas2003 at 17:48, 11 May 2023