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MUKANDA, BHAI, was a devoted Sikh of the time of Guru Arjan. Once he, accompanied by Bhai Mula Beri and Bhai Tirath and Bhai Nihalu, a goldsmith, waited upon Guru Arjan. They asked a question : "0 True King, how is it that while exposition of the...
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RAM SINGH, a holy man maintaining a dharamsala at Zahura, near Tanda, in Hoshiarpur district, assisted Bhai Maharaj Singh, the leader of the anti British rebellion of 1848-49, not only by lodging him and his followers in his dharamsala but also...
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SOBHA SINGH, SIR (1890-1978), the single largest builder and real estate owner of New Delhi, was the elder of the two sons of Sujan Singh, the younger one being Ujjal Singh who made himself famous as a Punjab parliamentarian. Sobha Singh was born in...
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RAM SINGH (d. 1839), the eldest son of Jamadar Khushal Singh, chamberlain to the Sikh monarch, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. His father took great pains to bring him up according to the manner of the Sikh court. Tutors were carefully chosen to teach...
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MUL CHAND, son of Raghupat Rai Nijjhar. As the Guru`s nominee resident of Khem Karan in the present day Amritsar district of the Punjab, he was in attendance upon Guru Gobind Singh. According to Sarup Singh Kaushish, Guru ktdn Sdkhtdn, he fought...
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NANO, BHAI, an Ohri Khatri, was a devoted Sikh of Guru Arjan`s time. He once visited Amritsar and had the privilege of receiving instruction from the Guru himself. The Guru, as says Bhai Mani Singh, Sikhdn di Bhagat Maid, explained to him the...
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NANU SINGH, priest of Gurdwara Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded (Hyderabad), who served as an intermediary between Thakur Singh Sandharivalia, prime minsiter to Maharaja Duleep Singh in his emigre government at Pondicherry and his associates in the Punjab....
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NARAIN DAS, BHAI, a prominent Sikh of the time of Guru Angad, listed in Mani Singh, Sikhan di Bhagat Maid. See, also, Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Mani Singh, Bhai, Sikhan di Bhagat Mala. Amritsar, 1955 2. Santokh Singh, Bhai, Sri Gur...
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NARAIN SINGH, a well to do Arora Sikh businessman of the village of Bahirampura, near Dinanagar, in Gurdaspur district, helped Bhai Maharaj Singh (d. 1856) financially on several occasions. He had facility in reciting hymns from the Guru Granth...
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NATTHA, BHAI, a devoted Sikh of the time of Guru Arjan. He was one of those who went to the Guru to report that spurious hymns were being composed by Prithi Mall under the pseudonym Nanak for inclusion in the holy corpus. Bhai Nattha`s name is...
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