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...es of the campaigns of Sikh agitations, in the 1920s, for the reformation of their holy places. ...an important shrine, with 2,750 acres of land attached to it. At the time of the morcha it was being managed by Mahant Kishan Das.

...r places of worship from the [[mahant]]s or priests into whose hands the [[Gurdwara]]s had passed during the eighteenth-century when the [[Khalsa]] were driven ...the priests, belonging mainly to the [[Udasi]] sect, who, after the advent of the British in 1849, began to consider the shrines and lands attached to th

...has been initiated into the Khalsa, but failed to observe the Khalsa code of conduct.</big> ...eighteenth century. Even the rahitnamas describe transgressor of the code of conduct as tankhahta (one liable to penalty) and not patit.

...was assigned to his father, in the Sandal Bar tract of tahsil [[Samundri]] of [[Lyallpur district]], [[Punjab]] (now in [[Pakistan]]). ...age which was then called, Chak 140 GB, to devote himself to the promotion of religious and social reform in the [[panth]].

...px|A Rare Photo of Harimandir sahib in 1908 when it was under the control of the Udasis and Pundits and Sadhus felt free to sit in meditation wearing ...truggle of the Sikh people from 1920-1925 to wrest control of their places of worship from the mahants or priests into whose hands they had passed during

...yana. The SGPC manages 73 gurdwaras in Haryana and earns an annual revenue of Rs1 crore from the shrines ...ryana Congress had, in its election manifesto, promised to form a separate gurdwara management committee as Haryana's Sikhs "were feeling discriminated against

...nkana Sahib on 20 February 1921, and joined the campaign for the reform of Gurdwara management. ...lver jubilee of the Shiromani Akali Dal. In 1945, he was elected president of the Shiromani Akali Dal which office he held until his death on 9 March 194

'''SGPC''': Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ...s of [[Punjab]], [[Haryana]], [[Himachal Pradesh]] and the Union territory of [[Chandigarh]]'''.

...ars an institute for the blind children at Daudhar. He gained good command of Sikh theology and scriptures and came to be known as a Giani. ...ik, Guru Sahib te Ved, Guru Granth te Panth and Ra.gma.la. Darpan are some of his other better known works.

...d from the Congress party on 16 April 1967. His bid to be elected a member of the Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur in 1972 met with a similar fate. He was now i *1. Dalip Singh, Dynamics of Punjab Politics. Delhi, 1981

...[[1924]] for the restoration to his throne of [[Maharaja Ripudaman Singh]] of [[Nabha]], a Sikh princely state in the [[Punjab]]. ...Morcha and donned a black turban as a mark of protest against the massacre of the reformists at [[Nankana Sahib]]. His contacts with the Indian nationali

[[Image:Gurudwara_Sri_Achaal_Sahib.jpg|thumb|right|300px|GURDWARA SRI ACHAL SAHIB <br> {{Panoramiophoto|29429231}}]] ...the habitation he had founded on the bank of the River Ravi. In the words of the Miharban Janam Sakhi, "As the Guru entered Achal, the name Nanak spread

...used to say that had Lal Singh lived, no one would possibly have heard of the second maestro, Dhian Chand. ...d and arrested during a police baton charge on a procession in the streets of Montgomery.

[[Image:Aerial View of Harimandir Sahib-01.jpg|thumb|600px|right|{{cs|'''Important landmarks aroun ...This striking building was built by [[Guru Arjan Dev]], the fifth [[Guru of the Sikhs]].

...ce of Hinduism. And in England the young Maharaja, even joined the Church of England. ...ty. The leaders were determined to alert the Sikh people to the corruption of Sikh values and practices, and they set about correcting detrimental deviat

...u Nanak NSJ (Kericho)|Gurdwara]]. Baba ji influenced and changed the lives of many in the UK from 1974 until Babaji passed away on [[5 June]] [[1983]]. ...], [[India]] and belonged to a family which had long served great holy men of the region. Pind Gurah is near village Bara Pind and about 7 km from Goraya

.... [[Gurbani]] / Waheguru / the word [[Shabad]] and "duwara" meaning "Door" of the "House."''' Although most Sikhs spell "Gurdwara" and refer it as the House of the Guru, that may not be the accurate spelling and meaning.

...logise for having published a controversial book that questions the status of holy Sikh granth – [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]]. ...y and identity and was part of a sinister gameplan to destroy the Sikh way of life.

<center>THE SIKH GURDWARAS ACT, 1925.<br> (Punjab Act VIII of 1925)<br>

...romani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]]. Baba ji was among the first batch of students who graduated (1889) from [[Punjab University]], [[Lahore]]. His ...iversity, (Lahore) he joined the Law College at Allahabad, but the death of his father and elder brother in quick succession, interrupted his studies a