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    BELA SINGH, BHAI

    BELA SINGH, BHAI (1865-1921), son of Bhai Mayya and Mai Raji, a Saini Sikh couple, was born at Kartarpur in Jalandhar district. The family originally belonged to Faridkot state, from where Bela Singh`s grandfather, Bhai Sobha, had migrated to Kartarpur where he served in Guru ka Larigar run by

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    ISRU
    ISRU, village 13 km southwest of Khanna (30°42`N, 76″13`E), in Ludhiana district, has a historical shrine, Gurdwara Palshahi ChhcvTri, commemorating Guru Hargobind`s visit. The present building was raised in 1955-56 to replace the old modest one. The shrine was managed by a succession of mahants until the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
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    MAHANT

    MAHANT, originally the superior of a math or any other similar religious establishment. In the Punjab of early Sikhism, its characteristic usage referred to the leaders of Nath deras. The term acquired a distinctive Sikh application during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, period during which many Sikh gurdwaras passed into

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    NANAK GARH GURUDWARA, BADAMI BAGH LAHORE

    NANAK GARH GURUDWARA,BADAMI BAGH, LAHORE This monument of Jagat Guru Nanaki Dev Ji was once located at. the bank of old River Ravi near Badami Bagh railway station. It is said that it was at this spot that Jagat Guru had delivered (Mukat) the father of Duni Chand from rebirth.

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