Ram Singh, born, in 1858, to the Ramgarhia Sohal family in a village called Rasulpur, near Batala. District Gurdaspur, India, was an accomplished carpenter by the age of sixteen. He first appears in records as one of the students of the Lahore School of Carpentry established in January 1874. John Lockwood Kipling arrived in Lahore, in 1875, to start the Mayo School of Industrial Art and Students of the Carpentry School were enrolled as its first class. With a remarkable clarity of vision. Kipling Sought to integrate European theory with a thorough study of the extant Indian heritage of art and architecture. Ram Singh, as Kipling’s star pupil, never sought to abandon his traditions nor did he turn away from contemporary thoughts on architectural practice. He did not pursue one or the other, and instead, integrated the two in a creative and magnificent manner.