DARBARA SINGH, DlWAN (d. 1734), originally from the mercantile community of Sirhind, became a Sikh receiving the initiatory rites on 30 March 1699, the day the Khalsa was created, and took part in the battles of Anandpur. During the period after Banda Singh he commanded much esteem as a veteran fighter and as diwan, i.e. commissar in charge of rations and forage.
Discover Khalsa Diwan Majha's pivotal role in social and religious reform among Sikhs since 1904, advocating for simplified marriages and sobriety.
Discover Sahib Singh's legacy in the Khalsa army, his role in the Anglo-Sikh war, and his leadership in the 1848 rebellion. Learn more about this historical figure.
Explore the remarkable life of Diwan Ajudhia Parshad, a pivotal figure in Sikh history as a soldier, administrator, and eyewitness chronicler of the Anglo Sikh war.
DARGAH MALL, DIWAN (d. 1695), son of Dvarka Das Chhibbar, was, according to Shahid Bilas Bhai Mani Singh, and Guru kian Sakhian, a diwan or minister in the time of Guru Hargobind and his successors and managed, as such, their households. He was the great grand father of Kesar Singh Chhibbar, the author of Bansavalinama. He was in attendance upon Guru Har Rai when summons arrived from Aurangzib asking the Guru to meet him in Delhi. The Guru sent instead his son, Ram Rai, to call on the emperor. Diwan Dargah Mall was deputed to escort him to the imperial capital.
Explore Khalsa Diwan Malaya, promoting Sikhism and education in Malaysia since 1903. Discover its impact on Sikh temples and cultural growth.
Explore the history of Shiromani Khalsa Diwan, a pivotal Sikh sociopolitical organization known for safeguarding Sikh interests in the Northwest Frontier Province.
Explore the historic role of Akali Dal Khara Sauda Bar in Sikh shrine liberation & reform. Learn about its origins & evolution in the 20th century.
DECCAN KHALSA DIWAN, a philanthropic organization of the Sikhs, now nonexistent, was formed in Bombay on the eve of Indian Independence (August 1947), with Partap Singh as president and Hari Singh Shergill as general secretary. The DIwan`s main object was to provide help for the rehabilitation of persons uprooted from their homes in the north in the wake of inter communal rioting. It also offered its services to protect the old Sikh residents of Nanded in Hyderabad state, who were numerically a very small group and who felt apprehensive about the safety of their historic shrine in the town and of their own lives in the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, then held to ransom by the fanatical Qasim Rizvi.
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