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Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or a caste name. Different castes still exist today in some aspects of Punjabi culture; similarly to the Hindu caste system, this system is based on employment [citation needed] (ex. jatt signifies the farming caste).
Among the eighteen historical gurdwaras (Sikh places of worship) in Bangladesh, only five are extant. The Gurdwara Nanak Shahi of Dhaka is the principal and largest gurdwara in the country. The Sikh population in the country almost entirely consists of businessmen and government officials from the neighbouring Republic of India. [2]
He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his grandfather and the sixth Sikh leader Guru Hargobind.He guided the Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his death at age 31. Guru Har Krishan was the eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus. At the age of five, he became the youngest Guru in Sikhism on 7 October 1661.
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Pal was also a popular surname among the Parmar Rajput rulers of the Garhwal. [12] [13] Pal is a surname of the Thakuri people of Nepal. [14]: 22 Among Sikhs, Pal is often used as suffix to the given name or a middle name. [15] The rulers of Kullu held the surname Pal up to about the 15th century A.D., which they later changed to Singh. [16]
Das is a common surname among all classes of Bengalis including Baidya, Bengali Kayastha, Mahishya, Tantubay, and others. [2] [3] In Bengal, the surname is also used by both Scheduled Castes [4] and General Castes. In Bihar, it is used by people belonging to Ambashtha and Karn Kayastha castes. [5]
McLeod claimed that the Bhatras of the Gurdaspur and Sialkot districts, traditionally, used to work as "fortune-tellers and hawkers".[3]Ethne K. Marenco claimed that in Punjab, after their conversion to Sikhism, several castes including the [Sikh] Bhats largely abandoned their "traditional occupation" in favor of other professions, particularly in the "industry, trade and transport" sectors. [9]
Akali Phula Singh, Sikh warrior and a Nihang leader [8] Ala Singh Jat, Maharaja of Patiala [9] Ali Mohammad Khan, ruler of Rohailkhand. [10] Baba Deep Singh, founder of Shaheedan Misl [11] Badan Singh, [12] founder of the princely state of Bharatpur; Baghel Singh, ruler of Singh Krora Misl [13] Bhim Singh Rana, Maharaja of Gohad State, and ...