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Akali may refer to: In the context of Sikhism, "Akali" ("pertaining to Akal or the Supreme Power", "divine") may refer to: any member of the Khalsa, i.e. the collective body of baptized Sikhs; a member of the Akali movement (1919-1925) a politician of the Akali Dal political parties; a term for the Nihang, a Sikh order
The meaning of Akali in Sikhism however, is the immortal army of Akāl (God). [5] According to Harjinder Singh Dilgeer, tracing the term Nihang to the Persian word for a crocodile is a misinterpretation and instead it refers to a "fearless person". [6]
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: Supreme Eternal Party [19]) is a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India , after Congress , being founded in 1920.
Sat is a Punjabi word, which means truth, from the Sanskrit word Satya (सत्य).Sri is a honorific used across various Indian Subcontinent languages. Akaal is made up of the Punjabi word Kal, meaning time, and the prefix a-which is used in various Indian languages as a way to make a word into its antonym, so Akal means timeless.
Following the 1947 independence of India, the Punjabi Suba movement, led by the Akali Dal, sought the creation of a province for Punjabi people. The Akali Dal's maximal position of demands was a sovereign state (i.e. Khalistan), while its minimal position was to have an autonomous state within India. [46]
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.
Nishan Sahib in blue, at Akali Phoola Singh di Burj in Amritsar Jung Khalsa warriors playing Gatka and Shastar Vidya. The term Khalsa [a] refers to both a community that follows Sikhism as its religion, [5] as well as a special group of initiated Sikhs. [6]
Berzelius gave the unknown material the name lithion/lithina, from the Greek word λιθoς (transliterated as lithos, meaning "stone"), to reflect its discovery in a solid mineral, as opposed to potassium, which had been discovered in plant ashes, and sodium, which was known partly for its high abundance in animal blood.