Son of a prosperous Sikh landowner, he was converted in 1904, and baptised as an Anglican in 1905. Reacting to western standards and values, he became a solitary holy man with a concern to reach Hindus. He travelled widely in North India and Afghanistan, but had a particular burden for Tibet where he became a victim of persecution for his Christian testimony. In the 1920s he visited Europe, America and Australia before revisiting Tibet in 1929, where he disappeared without trace!