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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Namdhari stream of the Sikhism timeline.
Streams: All of Sikhism Sahajdhari The Khalsa Panth Nirankari Namdhari Sikh Diaspora
Baba Ram Singh gathers his followers at Bhaini Sahib and founds the movement later called Namdhari, or Kuka, for its ecstatic cries in worship; his Sikhs wear white homespun, reject colonial goods, courts, and posts, and keep a parallel administration of their own, an early rehearsal of non-cooperation.
Namdhari Sikhs, enraged by cow slaughter licensed at Malerkotla, attack the town and kill officials; the British answer without trial, blowing forty-nine prisoners from guns at Malerkotla and hanging more, a severity even the colonial government later disowned; the movement passes into Sikh memory as martyrdom.
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.
Baba Ram Singh dies at Mergui in Burma, still a state prisoner thirteen years after his deportation; the Namdhari tradition holds that he did not die but withdrew, and expects him still, one of the points where the movement's faith and the record part ways, each stated here as its holders state it.
