DWAPARA YUGA

KHARAK BHURA, a large village in Jmd district ofHaryana, was visited by Guru Tegh Bahadur, who stayed here overnight while journeying from Dhamdhan toJind. An old oneroomed shrine called Gurdwara MarijI Sahib Naumi Patshahl exists to the east of the village. It is a small domed room, with the Guru Granth Sahib seated on a podium in the centre. Near by is the modern adjunct of the Gurdwara, a flatroofed building consisting of an assembly hall and a verandah on twosides. The Gurdwara is affiliated to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and is administered by the local managing committee atJind, which appoints a granthior Scripturereader, who also acts as the custodian of the shrine and of the lands attached to it. There are no Sikh families in the village.

ALAHNIAN, Guru Nanak\'s composition in measure Vadahans in the Guru Granth Sahib. Alahni, generally used in its plural form alahnian, is a dirge wailingly sung in chorus by women mourning the death of a relation. Etymologically, the word means an utterance in praise (of the departed person). The sorrowful singing of alahnian is part of the mourning custom of siapa. The women assemble at the house of the dead person and cry aloud beating their breasts while standing, or sit together and bewail. 

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BROUGHTON PAPERS are official and private papers of Sir John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton) in numerous bound volumes in the British Library. Lord Broughton, British administrator, who served as President of the Board of Control of the East India Company from 1835-41 and again from 1846-52, was responsible for the Home Government`s major policy decisions on the Punjab and the Sikhs.