During Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Khalsa Kingdom, yearly incursions from that direction came to an end. India owes a lot to the Khalsa’s martial heritage. The
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The Sikh religion was established by Guru Nanak at the end of the fifteenth century in the Punjab region of the northern Indian subcontinent and
Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and present-day Pakistan, around the end of
When the British Raj was replaced in 1947 by the two nation-states of India and Pakistan, the division between the two was largely based on
Chandigarh Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana and the country’s first planned metropolis, is one of Punjab’s top tourist destinations. You will adore
Mir Wais Hotak of Kandahar founded the Hotak dynasty (1709–1738), which broke away from the Iranian Safavids. Ghilzai Pashtun tribal leader Hotak ruled over his
MOVEMENT OF NAMDHARI Ram Singh established the Namdhari organization to promote freedom for the entire country of India by opposing the occasionally repressive British presence
THE HARIMANDIR SAHIB (GOLDEN TEMPLE) The Harimandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, is a building in Amritsar, Punjab, that seems to be universally
Khalsa, (Punjabi: the Pure) the reconstituted and purified Sikh community instituted by Guru Gobind Singh on March 30, 1699 (Baisakhi Day; Khalsa Sikhs celebrated the
Nirankari, (Punjabi: Followers of the Formless One—i.e., Almighty) religious reform movement within Sikhism. The Nirankari movement was established by Dayal Das (died 1855), who belong