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ABDULLA BHAI
Tags: guru, abdul, hargobind, nattha, amritsar, chhevin, gurbilas, patshahi, sikh, bhai, sursingh, akal
'ABDULLA BHAI', Abdul according to some Sikh chroniclers, was a Muslim minstrel who recited heroic balladry at Sikh congregations in the time of Guru Hargobind (1595-1644). Abdul was born in the village of Sursingh, now in Amritsar district of the...
ABDULLA, KHWAJA,
Tags: guru, singh, tegh, bahadur, physician, served, delhi, nanak, prophet, ghulam, abbas, nawab
ABDULLA, KHWAJA, a native of Mani Majra, near present day Chandigarh, was the keeper of the jail at Chandni Chowk kotwali in Delhi, where Guru Tegh Bahadur, Nanak IX, was detained under imperial warrant. He was a pious man and truly reverenced the...
ABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI
Tags: singh, duleep, maharaja, abdul, rasul, paris, deposed, london, punjab, india, egypt, local
ABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI, a native of Srinagar who was in trade at Amritsar as a shawl merchant, was for a time a close confidant of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh King of the Punjab deposed by the British in 1849. Kashmir! acted as the deposed...
ABD US-SAMAD KHAN
Tags: khan, singh, banda, ussamad, lahore, delhi, samad, years, mughals, governor, sikhs, zakariya
ABD USSAMAD KHAN (d. 1737), governor of Lahore from 1713 to 1726, a descendant of the Naqashbandi saint `Abdulla Ahrar, a great grandson of Khwaja Baki of Baghdad, was born at Agra when his father, Khwaja `Abd ul-Karim Ansari, had come out with his...
ABUL FAZL
Tags: fazl, abul, emperor, akbar, learning, guru, singh, oxford, father, 1602, 1551, bundela
ABUL FAZL (1551-1602), principal secretary-cum-minister to Akbar, the Mughal emperor. He was an accomplished man of learning and was the author of two celebrated works, A`ini Akbari and Akbar-nama, the former being a description of Akbar`s...
ACHCHHAR SINGH, JATHEDAR
Tags: singh, achchhar, takht, gurdwara, akal, akali, jathedar, sahib, amritsar, master, tara, office
ACHCHHAR SINGH, JATHEDAR (1892-1976), a Gurdwara officiant and Akali politician who twice held office as Jathedar (provost) of Sri Akal Takht at Amritsar, was born on 18 January 1892 in a farming family of modest means at Ghanienke, a village in...
ADAM, BHAI,
Tags: guru, bhai, adam, singh, firewood, amritsar, twarikh, khalsa, gian, blessing, giani, bade
ADAM, BHAI, also mentioned as Uddam in some chronicles, was, according to Giani Gian Singh, Twarikh Guru Khalsa, a Siddhu Jatt of Brar clan living at Vinjhu, a village near Bathinda (30°-14`N, 74°-58'E). He had no male child and, advancing in...
ADALI, BHAl
Tags: guru, bhai, arjan, granth, influence, suraj, gurpratap, singh, bidhi, chand, instruction, hands
ADALI, BHAl, of Chohla. village in present day Amritsar district of the Punjab, was a devoted Sikh contemporary of Guru Ram Das and Guru Arjan. It was, as says Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri GurPratap Suraj Granth, under his influence that Bhai Bidhi Chand...
ADHARKA
Tags: guru, nanak, sikh, master, bhai, singh, bala, janam, sakhi, sirigh, gian, twarikh
ADHARKA, according to Bhai Bala Janam Sakhi, visited Guru Nanak in the train of his master, Salas Rai, the jeweller. Both master and servant turned disciples and set up a Sikh sangat, fellowship or centre, in their native town, Bishambharpur.
ADINA BEG KHAN
Tags: adina, sikhs, shah, khan, delhi, jalandhar, lahore, punjab, doab, governor, durrani, afghans
ADINA BEG KHAN (d. 1758), governor of the Punjab for a few months in AD 1758, was, according to Ahwal-i-Dina Beg Khan, an unpublished Persian manuscript, the son of Channu, of the Arain agriculturalist caste, mostly settled in Doaba region of the...

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