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WOMEN IN SIKHISM. Women who had many equal privileges with the menfolk in Vedic India were reduced to a position of utter subordination during the time of the lawgivers. In the codes and institutes laid down in the dharmasastras they were given the status of sudras. They were declared
BASSI KALAN, pronounced Basi Kalan, village 12 km southeast of Hoshiarpur (31°32`N, 75°55`E) claims a historical shrine called Gurdwara Baba Ajit Singh after the eldest son of Guru Gobind Singh, who, at his father`s bidding, came here on 7 March 1703 at the head of 100 horsemen and rescued a
BISHAN KAUR, mother of Mata Gujari and wife of Lal Chand, was a woman gifted with good looks and fortune. Both husband and wife were the devoted Sikhs of Guru Hargobind. They were among the guests assembled to witness the nuptial ceremonies of Suraj Mall, son of Guru Hargobind.
DEVNO DEVl, RANI (d. 1839), daughter of a Chib Khatri of Dev Batala, in Jammu, was married to Maharaja Ranjit Singh. She immolated herself on the burning pyre of her husband on 28 June 1839.
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