Baba Dayal Singh of Rawalpindi calls Sikhs back to the worship of the formless God, Nirankar, and away from image worship, Brahmin priests, and the marriage and funeral customs he judged Hindu accretions; the Nirankari Darbar he founds becomes the first of the Punjab's Sikh reform movements.
The Event
- Date
- 1851 (exact)
- Era
- Reform and Colonial; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Rawalpindi; today Punjab, Pakistan
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Nirankari
- Key figures
- Baba Dayal Singh
Primary Sources
- The Nirankari hukamnamas
Secondary Sources
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
- Oberoi, The Construction of Religious Boundaries (Chicago, 1994)
Provenance: HIST-0520; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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