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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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Social Institutions and Movements/Educational institutions
AMRITSAR KHALSA DIWAN. See KHALSA DIWAN, AMRITSAR
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Social Institutions and Movements/Social and voluntary organisations
AKALI TE PRADESi. See AKALI, THE
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Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh reformist movements
ANAND MARRIAGE ACT was passed in 1909 by the Imperial (i.e. GovernorGeneral`s) Legislative Council to establish legal "validity of the marriage ceremony common among the Sikhs called Anand." The origins of marriage by Anand ceremony go back to early ...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Educational institutions
ANJUMANIPANJAB, founded in Lahore on 21 January 1865 by the distinguished linguist, Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, who became successively the first principal of the Government College at Lahore and the first registrar of the University of the Panjab, ...
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Social Institutions and Movements/Sikh political institutions and movements
BABAR AKALI MOVEMENT, a radical outgrowth of the Akali movement for the reform of Sikh places of worship during the early 1920's. The latter, aiming to have the shrines released from the control of priests who had become lax and effete over the gener...
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