The Nihang (also spelt as Nihung lit. "Crocodiles") or Akali (lit. "Immortals"), also known as Dal Khalsa, is an armed Sikh warrior order originating in...
Akali Phula SinghNihang (born Phula Singh; 1 January 1761 – 14 March 1823) was an AkaliNihang Sikh leader. He was a saint soldier of the Khalsa Shaheedan...
Baba Hanuman Singh (1755 – 1846), also known as Akali Hanuman Singh or Amar Shaheed Baba Hanuman Singh, was a Nihang Sikh and was the 7th Jathedar of...
Talwandi. His father's name was Gurdit Singh and mother was Pradhan Kaur. He was succeeded by Jathedar Santa SinghNihang. He died in 1968 at the age of 54...
Baba Prahlad Singh (d. 1865) was a Nihang Sikh and 8th Jathedar of Shiromani Panth Akali Budha Dal. He became Jathedar of Budha Dal in 1846 and also became...
Sardar Harnam Singh Brar, his father, Joginder Singh Brar was a farmer and a local Sikh leader, and his mother was Nihal Kaur. Jarnail Singh was the seventh...
Upon news of Akali Dal's new morcha for the release of Bhai Amrik Singh, Jarnail Singh agreed to discontinue his agitation and join the Akali Dal's planned...
orthodox Sikhs, including the Nihangs, whose leader Akali Phula Singh was the Jathedar of the Akal Takht. When Ranjit Singh visited Amritsar, he was called...
Mughal Empire in the early 18th century. AkaliKaurSinghNihang - KaurSingh (formerly recognized as Puran Singh) stood as a distinguished figure among...
Sodhi a shortened version of his name Surinder Singh. Sodhi also became a member of Harian Bela Nihang Dal where he learned Gatka, but would leave soon...
martyrdom in battle against Mughals in Amritsar. AkaliKaurSinghNihang - KaurSingh (formerly known as Puran Singh) was a religious Preacher and scholar who...
Dharam Singh (born 15 February 1936) (Gurmukhi: ਧਰਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਿਹੰਗ ਸਿੰਘ, Devnagri:धरम सिंघ निहंग सिंघ) is a Nihang theologian, writer, preacher known for...
House. ISBN 9780956016805. Binod Singh died in a skirmish with the Mughal forces in 1721. Akali Darbara SinghNihang (1645-1735), a veteran warrior who...
Inspector Pritam Singh Bajwa and Constable Surat Singh of Jalandhar were gunned down. All of the militants hiding in a house of Amarjit SinghNihang managed to...
Binod Singh died in a skirmish with the Mughal forces in 1721. Akali Darbara SinghNihang (1645-1735), a veteran warrior who had learnt shastar vidya from...
as secretary and Harsha Singh, Ram Singh and Karam Singh as members formed its working committee. Shortly thereafter, Nihang Sikhs began influencing the...
with the NihangSingh Dals, but also at Sachkhand Sri Hazoor Sahib and Sachkhand Sri Patna Sahib (two of the Sikhs holiest shrines). " Panth Akali Budha...
Legislative Council. He supported Jathedar Akali Baba Chet SinghNihang's crusade for allowing the Akali-Nihangs to keep spears and full-length swords with...
Akali Phula Singh and Akali Sadhu Singh. Unlike today's Nihang sects and Jathas earlier all Nihangs were in the Budha Dal and ate meat. The Nihangs who...
responsibility for killing Amrik Singh Jaura, a Nihang, and his gunmen near Tarn Taran for their involvement in killing militant Sukhdev Singh Sakhira. He was chief...
between the British and 500 Sikhs under the command of Akali Hanuman Singh, in which Akali Hanuman Singh attained martyrdom. After the partition of India in...
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