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RADCLIFFE AWARD
Tags: punjab, boundary, commission, award, india, radcliffe, lahore, line, 1947, pakistan, partition, district
RADCLIFFE AWARD, under which the dividing line between the West (Pakistan) Punjab and the East (Indian) Punjab was drawn, is so called after the name of the Chairman of the Punjab Boundary Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, an eminent British jurist...
RADCLIFFE AWARD
Tags: punjab, boundary, commission, award, india, radcliffe, lahore, line, 1947, pakistan, partition, district
RADCLIFFE AWARD, under which the dividing line between the West (Pakistan) Punjab and the East (Indian) Punjab was drawn, is so called after the name of the Chairman of the Punjab Boundary Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, an eminent British jurist...
RADHA KISHAN, PANDIT
Tags: singh, lahore, maharaja, appointed, pandit, twdnkh, 1885, suri, umdat, sohan, lepel, note
RADHA KISHAN, PANDIT (d. 1875), son of Pandit Madhusudan, was appointed in 1824 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh to take charge of the education of Hira Singh Dogra, who studied both Sanskrit and Persian. Later, he was appointed tutor to the minor Maharaja...
RAGHBfR SINGH, RAJA
Tags: singh, raja, balbir, ranbir, predeceased, grandson, griffin, lepel, died, rajairajgan, title, perpetuity
RAGHBfR SINGH, RAJA (1834-1887), son of Raja Sarup Singh, ascended the throne of Jind on 31 March 1864 after the death of his father. He was an able and enlightened ruler, indefatigable in his efforts to promote the prosperity of his people. He...
RAGHBIR SINGH DUGAL
Tags: rangoon, burma, medical, dugal, singh, india, sikh, raghbir, council, rawalpindi, elected, government
RAGHBIR SINGH DUGAL (1897-1957), a medical practitioner and leader of the Sikh community in Burma, was born in 1897, the son of Sobha Singh, at the village of Sayyid Kasrari, in Rawalpindi district, now in Pakistan. He had his early education at his...
RAGHUPAT RAI NIJJHAR
Tags: guru, karan, raghupat, khem, bahadur, singh, tegh, rites, khalsa, joined, banda, force
RAGHUPAT RAI NIJJHAR, a rich landlord of Khem Karan in present day Amritsar district, was a devout Sikh. He called on Guru Tegh Bahadur at Goindval in 1664, and requested that he be pleased to visit his native Khem Karan. Guru Tegh Bahadur accepted...
RAGMAIA
Tags: ragas, mata, granth, guru, systems, sahib, ragmala, sons, music, holy, indian, chief
RAGMAIA, lit. a rosary of ragas or musical measures, is the title of a composition of twelve verses, running into sixty lines, appended to the Guru Granth Sahib after the Munddvam, i.e. the epilogue, as a table or index of ragas. In the course of...
RAHIRA
Tags: sikhs, rahira, ahmad, shah, ghallughara, singh, villages, 1761, battle, malerkotla, durrani, women
RAHIRA and Kup, two villages, 4 km apart from each other and jointly known in Sikh history as KupR.ihIra, in Sangrur district of the Punjab, were the scene of a fierce battle between the Sikhs and the combined forces of Ahmad Shah Durrani and his...
RAHIT DARPAN
Tags: singh, written, sikh, prasdd, tenets, bibekbdrdhi, manuscript, bhagvan, darpan, rahitndmds, rahit, salutation
RAHIT DARPAN, lit. a mirror or code of conduct, is one of the thirty-seven rahitndmds written by various authors and collected by Bhagvan Singh under the title Bar Bimal Bibekbdrdhi, popularly known as Bibekbdrdhi,. Rahit Darpan, written in Punjabi...
RAHIT MARYADA
Tags: sikh, guru, singh, rahit, khalsa, religious, gurus, rules, moral, nanak, community, rahitndmds
RAHIT MARYADA, traditions and rules which govern the distinctive Sikh way of life and determine Sikh belief and practice. Rahit, from the Punjabi verb rahind (to live, to remain), means mode of living while maryada is a Sanskrit word composed of...

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