SATGURU RAM SINGHJI

Dec. 29, 2018

To commemorate the 200th Birth Anniversary of Sri Satguru Ram Singhji, an International Seminar was held in New Delhi. The seminar was organised by the Union Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Panjab University, Chandigarh and Kuka Martyrs Memorial Trust.

About:

Sri Satguru Ram Singhji was a Sikh philosopher, reformer and freedom fighter.
He was born in 1816 in village Raiyan in district of Ludhiana in Punjab.
He spearheaded the Namdhari sect to free the country.
He started Kuka Movement to free the country a month before the Mutiny of 1857. He advocated boycott of the British merchandise and services.
Social Reformer:
- He preached against killing the girl child in infancy and stood firmly against the Sati Pratha and urged people to remarry the widow to maintain her status in the society.

He started a new mass marriage system wherein the marriages were performed by spending a rupee and twenty-five paisa only. The dowry was totally banned.

Source : PIB