In the outbreak's aftermath the British deport Baba Ram Singh, though he had disowned the violence, first within India and then to Burma, where he remains under surveillance for the rest of his life; his followers keep faith with his expected return, and the movement endures without him.
The Event
- Date
- 1872 (exact)
- Era
- Reform and Colonial; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Rangoon; today Yangon, Myanmar
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Namdhari
- Key figures
- Baba Ram Singh
Primary Sources
- The colonial deportation orders
Secondary Sources
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0523; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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