21. BALAK SINGH, BABA

BALAK SINGH, BABA (17851862), mentor ofBaba Ram Singh, acknowledged to be the forerunner of the Namdhari movement, was born in 1841 Bk/AD 1785 to Dial Singh and Mata Bhag Bhari, in an Arora family of village Chhoi in Attock district, in Rawalpindi di...

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22. BALU

BALLU, son of Mula, was the grandfather of Bhai Mani Ram of "Alipur, in Multan district, whose five sons were distinguished warriors in the retinue of Guru Gobind Singh (16661708). According to Bhatt Vahi Multani Sindhi, Ballu himself was a retainer ...

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23. BANARASI DAS.

BANARASI DAS. alias Banarasi Babu, who professed to be a Kuka Sikh, was originally a resident of Allahabad. Widely travelled, he had been to England in 188586 where he had met the deposed Maharaja Duleep Singh. On his return from England he went to N...

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24. BANVALI, BHAI,

BANVALI, BHAI, and his brother Paras Ram, Brahmans by birth, were devotees of Guru Hargobind. They were professional physicians and, as says Bhai Mani Singh, Sikhan di Bhagat Mala, they treated Sikhs and holymen free of charge, and went travelling pr...

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25. BELI RAM

BELI RAM (d. 1843). head of the royal toshakhana at Lahore, was the second of the five sons of Misr Divan Chand, a general in Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s army. He joined the Maharaja`s treasury in 1809 and within seven years rose to occupy the highest po...

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