MAKKHAN SINGH, BHAI (d. 1863) was a granthi or officiant of the Darbar Sahib at Amritsar. When the British entered Lahore after the first Anglo-Sikh war in 1846, some of them, while visiting the holy shrine, would desecrate the precincts by entering with shoes on and otherwise annoy the

SADHAR, village in Ludhiana district, 20 km north of Raikot (30°39`N, 75°37`E), claims a historical shrine, Gurdwara Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Patshahi Chhevin Guru Sar, popularly designated Guru Sar Sadhar. Guru Hargobind made a brief halt here during one of his tours of Malva country. According to local tradition,

SIANA SAYYIDAN, a village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana 5 km from Pehowa (29"59`N, 76"35`E), is the birthplace of Sayyid Shah Bhikh or Bhikhan Shah, a Muslim saint, who guided by intuition and divine inspiration, had gone to pay obeisance to the child Gobind at Lakhnaur in 1670. There

KIDARA, BHAI, an inhabitant of the village of Maddar, now in Sheikhupura district of Pakistan, was a devout Sikh of the time of Guru Arjan. He was, according to the tradition preserved in his village, miraculously cured of a wasting disease. The story was, as says Bhai Santokh Singh,