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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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1. MAHANT
Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
MAHANT, originally the superior of a math or any other similar religious establishment. In the Punjab of early Sikhism, its characteristic usage referred to the leaders of Nath deras. The term acquired a distinctive Sikh application during the eighte...
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2. MANJI
Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh political institutions and movements
MANJI, derived from the Sanskrit mancha and manchaka meaning a stage, platform, raised seat, dais, throne, beadstead, or a couch, has a special connotation in Sikh tradition. Ordinarily, a manji, in Punjabi, means a cot, especially of the simple, str...
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3. MELI
Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
MELI, lit. attached or companion, appears in the Sikh Scripture in different connotations usually as a verb form, past indefinite of melana (to attach, join, bring to gether), in the feminine form (GG, 54, 63, 90, 243, 379, 389, 584 et al.); as an ad...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh reformist movements
MORCHA CHABIAN, campaign for the recovery of the keys of the Golden Temple treasury, marks a dramatic episode in the Sikhs` agitation in the early 1920`s for reforming the management of their places of worship. The Golden Temple at Amritsar, which ha...
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