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The Akali movement was started in 1920 by the Central Sikh League's political wing, the Akali Dal, which was founded in Amritsar in December 1920 and assisted the SGPC. [ 8 ] [ 7 ] The term Akali derives from the word Akal ("timeless" or "immortal") used in the Sikh scriptures.
The Babbar Akali movement was a 1921 splinter group of "militant" Sikhs who broke away from the mainstream Akali movement over the latter's insistence on non-violence over the matter of the restoration of Khalsa Raj (Sikh rule) in Punjab as under the prior Sikh Empire [9] as well as gurdwara reforms in restoring pre-colonial gurdwara environments.
After the name of newspaper (i.e The Akali), the 'Gurudwara Reform Movement' also became popularly known as the 'Akali Movement'" . [13] Master Sundar Singh Lyallpuri is regarded as the founding father of the 'Akali Movement' and the 'Shiromini Akali Dal' (i.e. the religio-political wing of the Akali party). [14]
Kishan Singh Gargaj [1] (1886-1926) was an Indian revolutionary from Punjab and was one of the founders of the Babbar Akali movement.Known mainly for his martyrdom for the cause of the movement, he was one of the renowned martyrs in the Babbar Akali movement.
Dharam Singh Hayatpur (or Hiatpur) (1884 – 27 February 1926) [1] was a prominent member of the Sikh political and religious group the Babbar Akali Movement in India. Biography [ edit ]
Dhanna Singh (Punjabi: ਧੰਨਾ ਸਿੰਘ Dha°nā Si°gh; 1888–1923) was a Sikh revolutionary and part of the Babbar Akali movement for India's freedom from British rule. [1] He died on October 26, 1923, while resisting arrest during his own suicide bombing; the bomb killed seven officers.
Photograph of Mahant Narayan Das, the last Udasi custodian of Nankana Sahib and accused perpetrator of the Nankana massacre. At the time of the massacre, there was a growing demand in Sikhism that the traditional hereditary custodians hand over their control of the gurdwaras to democratically elected committees.
The All-India Sikh Students Federation, or AISSF, founded in 1943 [114] to attract educated Sikh youth to the Akali movement, [115] had traditionally followed the direction of the Akali Dal and fought for more political power for the Sikhs, fighting for an independent Sikh state before Partition, and afterwards taking up the Punjabi Suba cause ...