Soon after the Lahore Congress session of 1893, the Sardar gave his attention increasingly to political questions which were beginning to assume importance. It is quite likely that if his life had been spared for a few years more, Dyal Singh would have played a prominent role in the political times, which came soon after his death. It was inevitable that a man like him who was devoted to the cause of Reform and whose very breath was progress, should identify himself with the new thought and new movements of times. Men, who, in the restlessness of youth, start with a radical outlook on social and political questions, gradually settle down to a conservative attitude. In most case hopes and aspirations, political programs and social utopias, once burning with human energy and zest, cool down in the course of time. Dyal Singh, however, was cast in a different mould. With a generally poor health and a suffering body, he had an active and growing mind which always leapt forward to embrace new ideas. It was due to this unceasing intellectual zest and a continuous broadening of outlook that the Sardar anticipated forces which had to mature into movements in later ages. Though he serious attention to political problems, which were about to burst after his death, during the last few years of his life. In 1895 Dyal Singh wrote a small booklet in English on Nationalism. In the pamphlet the Sardar discussed, at llength, national feeling with special reference to India's needs.
The book was registered under Act XXV of 1867, and copies were circulated among the members of the Congress, the members of the Indian Association and the friends and admirers of the Sardar. The booklet was widely appreciated. The Sardar continued to be the President of the Standing Committee of the Indian National Congress. Lala Harkishen Lal gives a wonderful testimony to the Sardar's grasp of public affairs in the following words:" For a short time once I was asked to hold the charge of The Tribune as Editor. I had written to newspapers before but I had not tackled everyday incidents from the editorial chair before. When the Manager of the Tribune brought me a note to this effect from the Sardar, I had much hesitation but I was assured that the Sardar was willing to help me if I undertook the task. I agreed. I wrote some notes the following morning, took them to him and read out the same to him. His criticism and remarks showed me that he had followed the trend of public affairs more closely than an ordinary educated man does and especially, a Sardar; but I was surprised to find that he had also written for me or for the Tribune a few notes himself which he had handed over to me to be printed if I liked. I did let them go in the paper. They were much appreciated and I got the credit for them." Dyal Singh was also the first Chairman of the Indian Association, a liberal body of young and educated Punjabis, which came into existence in the eighties of the last century. The Sardar continued to guide the activities of this body till his death and his advice was generally useful to the Association. In 1897 Dyal Singh led a deputation of the Indian Association to present an address to His Honor Sir William Mackworth Young, the Lieutenant Governor of the Province.
It is very difficult to define Dyal Singh's political opinions because he was not a politician in the modern sense of the term. There is no party label, no dogmatic political creed, and no catchword, for which the Sardar stood. To him politics were something subsidiary to reform and liberalism, the main interest of his life. Liberal aspirations, political or social, always thrilled him. But liberalism in his time was more needed in social fields than in the reconstruction of political systems. To Dyal Singh liberalism was the principle, reform was the program; but the field was much vaster then and something transcending the petty political issues. He breathed the Reformers' optimism, characteristic of the Victorian Age; he fought for justice through his newspaper whenever any wrongs came to light; he was intensely patriotic. But beyond that, his political thought did not go. In his politics Dyal Singh was the child of his age. This article has been made up of exttracts from the unforgettable book, "Dyal Singh Majithia - A Short Biographical Sketch," written individually by two distinguished scholars, educationists and administrators in 1935.