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AI PANTH
Tags: panth, female, nanak, begging, guru, called, sakti, living, religion, calcutta, bowl, yogi
AI PANTH, one of the twelve sects of yogis, whose adherents worship Ai Bhavani, a tribal female deity, believed to be an extension of Sakti. Siva in the form of ardhanarisvara is said to have two forms represented by his own halves. His right side...
BAIRAGIS, or Vairagis,
Tags: living, sect, life, ramanandis, punjab, nimanandi, india, north, castes, tamu, householder, class
BAIRAGIS, or Vairagis, are a sect of Hindu ascetics, eschewing colour or passion and detached from all worldly allurements. Founded by Sri Anand, the 12th spiritual descendant of Ramanand, the sect comprises a class of nomadic penitents, living a...
BAZIGARS
Tags: punjab, bazigars, delhi, tribe, singh, rose, sikhs, sher, group, religious, people, 1911
BAZIGARS or acrobats, a counterpart of nats outside the Punjab, are a nomadic people travelling from one place to the other, using camels and donkeys as pack animals. Earlier they had been an occupational group performing bazi, i.e. acrobatic feats,...
BEDI
Tags: singh, bedi, caste, baba, nanak, descendants, guru, bedis, kusa, sahib, district, punjab
BEDI, a subcaste of the Khatris, Prakritized form of the Sanskrit kstriya which is one of the four caste groups into which the Hindu society is divided. The Khatris are mainly Hindus though there is among them a Sikh element which is small in number...
BHALLA
Tags: sarin, bhallas, group, widow, khatris, remarriage, khatri, punjab, muslim, belong, subgroup, deputation
BHALLA, a subdivision of Khatri (Prakrit form kstriya) caste, one of the four castes into which the Hindu society is divided. Khatris are further divided into four subgroups. i.e. Bahri, Khukhrain, Bunjahi and Sarin; the Bhallas belong to the Sarin...
GIAN SINGH BHAI
Tags: singh, gian, work, designs, temple, golden, sikh, painting, frescopainting, consists, pedestal, forms
GIAN SINGH, BHAI (1883-1953), naqqash or fresco painter, was born in the city of Amritsar in 1883. His father, Taba Singh, a comb maker by profession, supplemented his meagre income by dispensing ayurvedic medicines in his spare time. At the age...
KIRPAL SINGH, ARTIST
Tags: singh, sikh, sahib, kirpal, museum, delhi, gurdwara, interest, central, karnal, india, career
KIRPAL SINGH, ARTIST (1923-1990), the creator of Sikh history in colour, was born the son of Bhagat Singh and Har Kaur in a small village Vara Chain Singhvala in Firozpur district of the Punjab on 10 December 1923. He inherited interest in art...
KOH-I-NUR
Tags: singh, kohinur, shah, diamond, lahore, maharaja, ranjit, duleep, shuja, stone, delhi, british
KOHINUR ("Mountain of Light"), the peerless diamond which today lakes the pride of place among the British crown jewels, once belonged to Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh sovereign of the Punjab. Duleep Singh was made to surrender it to the...
RAM SINGH
Tags: singh, guru, sukha, 1688, paoma, battle, carved, treetrunk, bhangani, references, lahore, 1912
RAM SINGH, a skilled artisan from Chunar Fort near Kashi (Varanasi) in Uttar Pradesh, who was with Guru Gobind Singh at Paonta. According to Sukha Singh, Gurbilds Dasvrn Patshahi, he improvised a gun carved out of a tree trunk. The Guru is said...
SIKH COINS or NUMISMATICS
Tags: coins, coin, singh, sikh, struck, issued, gold, silver, ahmad, lahore, side
SIKH COINS or NUMISMATICS. Sikh coins like coins anywhere else were both a commercial necessity and a symbol of sovereignty. Coin, derived from the Latin cuneus, a wedge, through Old French coing and cuigne, "is properly the term for a wedge ...

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