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...werful leader could reignite a full scale war with them. He died in exile, Benares in 1858, away from his homeland of Punjab.

'''Varanasi''' or '''Banaras''' or '''Benares''' (25°20'N, 82°58'E), the holiest place of [[Hindu]] pilgrimage, has sin

...ie along the banks of the river Ganga, including [[Haridwar]] and Varanasi/Benares also known as Kashi (one of the oldest continualy occupied cities in the wo

...e Julaha, a low caste of Muslim weavers, and Kabir worked as a weaver near Benares all his life. The Julaha were probably recent converts to Islam and it is n

The most holy places for Kabir panthis are the Kabir Chaura based in Benares with a branch at Maghar. The headquarters of the Dharmadasis is the Chattis ...ents may have been, he was brought up in a family of [[Muslim]] weavers at Benares. He is generally looked on as having been a weaver by caste, and the weaver

...na, a butcher from Sindh; Sain a barber from Rewa; Ravidas, a cobbler from Benares; Namdev, a calico printer from Maharashtra; Jaidev a Brahman from Bengal an

...ld walk many miles along with the Jatha Singhs. Punjab, Kashmir, Peshawar, Benares, Patna Sahib, Jagannath Puri, Rameshwaran, Sri Hazur Sahib, Calcutta, Bomba

...Bhagat Ramanand]] (1366-1467 AD) came to Northern [[India]] and made Kashi/Benares as his home, he noted that the [[Muslim]] religion had made inroads into Hi ...iod. As per some accounts he died at a ripe old age of nearly 120 years in Benares.

...st talented poets and writers, many of them came from the ancient city of Benares. He put most of them to work translating the ancient classics of India's

...r along the lines of the former two scholars. Dr. Lal Manohar Upadihiya of Benares University, Dr. Om Prakash Bhardwaj of Agra University, Dr. Sushila Devi of

...hrase was, and still is, popular in Varanasi (formerly known as Banaras or Benares), Kabir's place of origin. The phrase derives its colloquial meaning from t

...ee, the [[Jugantar]] leader, Kartar Singh and Pingle met Rasbehari Bose at Benares to inform him that twenty thousand more Gadhar members were expected very s

...r]], preaching as he went. He travelled through [[Agra]], [[Allahabad]], [[Benares]], [[Gaya, India|Gaya]], and finally arrived at [[Patna]]. [[Mata Gujri]],

...o hint. Most of the other Bhagats were men of the southeast, teachers from Benares, Rajpu'ttana, or Delhi. Nanak alone had his origin in the Punjab Proper, re

...ed the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan in Magahar; then, I came to dwell at Benares. ||2||</big></center><br>

...s is my support. ||2|| The Lord's Praise is my River Ganges and my city of Benares; my soul takes its sacred cleansing bath there. That becomes my true cleans

...idols, temples, and places of pilgrimage like Kaydarnaat'h, Mat'huraa and Benares,

...idols, temples, and places of pilgrimage like Kaydarnaat'h, Mat'huraa and Benares, <br>

...ne of administrative machinery. Also, denominational education of Aligarh, Benares, [[Lahore]] and [[Amritsar]] has added fuel to the fire. The lure of covete

...ses and those addicted to the 5 thieves. Kabir was born around the area of Benares, and was brought up in a poor Muslim weavers family. He saw the excesses of