#Sri Satguru Ram Singhji

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Sri Satguru Ram Singhji

About Sri Satguru Ram Singhji

He was born in 1816 in Ludhiana and was a great spiritual guru, a thinker, a seer, philosopher, social reformer, and a freedom fighter.

He fought against the caste system among Sikhs and encouraged inter-caste marriages.

He preached against killing the girl child in infancy, stood firmly against the Sati Pratha and advocated widow remarriage.

The movement was founded in 1840 by Bhagat Jawaharmal in Western Punjab.

Its basic tenets were abolition of caste and similar discriminations among Sikhs, discouraging the eating of meat and taking of alcohol and drugs, and encouraging women to step out of seclusion.

After the British took the Punjab, the movement transformed from a religious purification campaign to a political one.

During the Mutiny of 1857, Satguru Ram Singhji formally inaugurated the Namdhari movement, with a set of rituals modelled after Guru Gobind Singh’s founding of the Khalsa.

He strongly opposed to the British rule and started an intense non-cooperation movement against them. Led by him, the people boycotted English education, mill made cloths and other imported goods. The Kuka followers actively propagated the civil disobedience.

All followers of satguru are distinguished by the white dress, straight and pressed turban and a woolen rosary. They were required to wear the five symbols of Sikhism, with only exception of the Kirpan (sword). However, they were required to keep a Lathi (a bamboo stave) with them.