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The Akali movement / ə ˈ k ɑː l i /, also called the Gurdwara Reform Movement, was a campaign to bring reform in the gurdwaras (the Sikh places of worship) in India during the early 1920s. The movement led to the introduction of the Sikh Gurdwara Bill in 1925, which placed all the historical Sikh shrines in India under the control of ...
Sunder Singh was born in 1878 into a Kamboj farmer's family in Village Bohoru in Amritsar.His father's name was Lakhmir Singh Sandha and his mother's was Ram Kaur. During the colonization of Bars, the Sandha family, along with many others, moved to Sheikhupura District (now in Pakistan) where they were allotted lands in the new Bar Chenab colony currently known as Faisalabad.
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.
In 1921, Kartar Singh was arrested for protesting against the Nankana massacre, and again in 1924 for taking part in various Akali movement demonstrations. He was released in December 1928, because of poor health.
English: Photograph of a Sikh crowd during the Akali movement, ca.1921–1922. The location is Amritsar, in-front of the (now-demolished) gothic clock-tower near the Golden Temple. The location is Amritsar, in-front of the (now-demolished) gothic clock-tower near the Golden Temple.
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.
Bhai Mardana, convert from Islam to Sikhism [2]; Bhai Bala – childhood friend and companion of Bhai Mardana and Guru Nanak. [3]Rai Bular Bhatti – Muslim Rajput noble of the Bhatti clan during the latter half of the 15th century who was inspired by the Sikh Guru Nanak and donated half of his land.
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