BUDDH SINGH. BABA (1819-1906), to his followers `Guru` Hari Singh, was the younger brother of Baba Ram Singh, founder of the Namdhari or Kuka movement. He was born on Assu sud73,1876 Bk/22 September 1819, the son of Bhai Jassa Singh and Mai Sada Kaur of Rilpur Raian (now Bhaini Sahib) in Ludhiana district. He lived the life of a householder in his native village till the time his elder brother, on the Baisakhi day of 1857, formally declared himself to be the initiator of the Namdhari movement.