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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 Nirankari stream of the Sikhism timeline.
Streams: All of Sikhism Sahajdhari The Khalsa Panth Nirankari Namdhari Sikh Diaspora
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.
Baba Buta Singh gathers followers at Peshawar and begins the movement that becomes the Sant Nirankari Mission, carried forward by Baba Avtar Singh from 1943; the Mission teaches devotion to a living guru, which sets it apart from the original Nirankari Darbar and, in time, brings it into conflict with the Khalsa mainstream.
On Vaisakhi day, Sikhs protesting a Sant Nirankari gathering in Amritsar march on the venue and are fired on; thirteen Sikhs are killed, and their martyrdom becomes a rallying point of the gathering Punjab crisis and a root of the militancy that follows in the next decade.
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.
