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Apparently these Satnamis leader was Jeewandas Chandel, perhaps from Barabanki and wrote his own text which is similar to our ideology. He was brought to Sikhi by Bala Lal/Dayal Ji. And had meeting with Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji and became close to Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji. Later they rebelled against Aurangzeb (at Mahindergarh, district of south Haryana) and after initial success they were forced to run. Some say they were large in numbers, 20,000. It is said that Satnamis were so much a fear in Muslims that Aurangzeb, wrote ayets or verses of Holy Kuran on banners to put psycholgical motivations to his forces.

After their mass-persecution and defeating started, they took refuge in areas of present day Chhatisgarh state. There they lived the life of tribals. And faith became some rituals. Some of them became Christian, following Christian missionary preaching, including former CM of Chhatisgarh Ajit Jogi.

It happened that one of the elder persons showed a young guy, one of Satnamis ,one of their old book in different scripts. They were not knowing it (its meaning) but just worshipping it. It appears it was kept in a iron box in a house which was burnt but the 'book' wasnt hurt.

A Sikh in that area discovered that it was our Guru Granth Sahib Ji!!!

And there after British Sikh Council and Scottish Sikh Council are on job to unite them back with us. And some of the local Satnamis are Sikhs and a few are undergoing missioanry training in some Sikh colleges in Punjab.

I really want to go to Chhatisgarh and see our Guru Granth Sahib Ji, and look if Ninth Pathshahi bani is in or not....

British Historian accounts on Satnamis

SATNAMI. The word satnami is derived from satnam, lit. the True Name , a term used in some religious traditions including SIKHISM to denote the Supreme Being. Literally, a Satnami is one who believes in and worships only the True Being and as such every SIKH is a Satnami. However, the term has been adopted by at least three religious bodies as a title of their respective sects. The Sadhs, a unitarian sect of northern India founded in 1543 by Birbhan and which is also said to be an offshoot of the Raidasis, employ this term among themselves. Probably, it was this sect of the Sadhs which was responsible for the Satnami revolt against AURANGZIB in 1672. The next sect calling itself Satnami was founded byJagjivan Das (b. 1(582) of Sardaha in the Barabanki district in Bihar. He began his religious career as a Kabirpanthi and, according to some authorities, these Satnamis are merely a branch of that faith. Another sect called Satnami, believed to be a later offshoot of the Raidasis, is found in the Chhattisgarh area and was founded between 182030 by Ghasi Ram, a chamarby caste. These Satnamis profess to adore the True Name alone whom they consider the cause and creator of everything in this world. He is said to be formless, without a beginning and without an end. Although they profess to worship but one God, yet they also pay reverence to his manifestation revealed in incarnations, particularly those of Rama and Krsna. Their moral code enjoins upon them indifference to the world ; devotion to the GURU ; clemency and gentleness ; rigid adherence to truth ; honest discharge of all social and religious obligations; and the hope of final absorption into the Supreme. Fasts are kept, at least to a partial extent, on Tuesday (the day of Hanuman) and on Sunday ( the day of Sun). Their distinctive mark is a black and white twisted thread, usually of silk, worn on the right wrist. On the forehead is worn a tilak, consisting of one perpendicular streak. They bury their dead. Consumption of flesh and alcohol are taboo. They were nicknamed by the people as Mundiyas (Shavelings) because of their habit of shaving the body clean of all hair.