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Educational institutions, Research institutions, Traditional Sikh schools, Sikh reformist movements, Sikh political institutions and movements, Gurdwara Management committees, Social and voluntary organisations
 
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Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
GANGUSHAHIS, a Sikh missionary order which owed its origin to Gangu Shah. Gangu Shah, also known as Ganga Das, was born in a Basi Khatri family of Garhshankar, in Hoshiarpur district of the Punjab, and was a disciple of Guru Amar Das, the third Guru ...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh political institutions and movements
GARGAJJ AKALI JATHA (gargajj = reverberatingly thunderous) was the name given a dynamic group (jathd) of Akali reformers, especially active in Majha region of the Punjab. The Jatha came into being on 19 April 1921, splintering from the parent body Ce...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh political institutions and movements
GHADR MOVEMENT. Ghadr, commonly translated as "mutiny," was the name given to the newspaper edited and published for the Hindustani Association of the Pacific Goast which was founded at Portland, United States of America, in 1912. The movement this A...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
GIANI SAMPRADAI is one of three major schools of Sikhs theologians and expositors of the Sikh scripture, the other two being the Udasis and the Nirmalas. Giani, the Punjabi form of Sanskrit jndni from the rootjnd (to know), originally meant a scholar...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Social and voluntary organisations
GUR SEVAK SABHA, a society formed at Amritsar on 29 December 1933 by some Sikh intellectuals and educationists to restate Sikh moral and religious values and have these reinstated in the public life of the Panth,` then severely riven by rivalries and...
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