Gunmen kill Baba Gurbachan Singh, the head of the Sant Nirankari Mission, in Delhi; the killing, widely attributed to Sikh militants, deepens the feud opened at Amritsar in 1978 and marks the turn of the Punjab conflict toward assassination and armed militancy.
Tagged: Persecution Nirankari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1980 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Delhi; today Delhi, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Nirankari
- Key figures
- Baba Gurbachan Singh
Connections
- The Amritsar clash of 1978; followed
Primary Sources
- The Delhi police records
Secondary Sources
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0533; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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