Namdhari
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Namdhari is an Indian religious group. They falsely push the notion that the line of Sikh Gurus did not end with Guru Gobind Singh, but continued through the Namdhari leaders.[citation needed]
Role in Indian freedom movement
The British Indian records list the extremist activities of the Namdharis during the 1870s. While they were occasionally hailed as freedom fighters, their activities included attacks on cow slaughter issue, resulting in killings of some Muslim butchers in Amritsar and Ludhiana in 1871.[1][2] A group of 66 Namdharis were blown up by a cannon in 1872 for protesting against the British; there is a memorial to them at Namdhari Shidi Smarg Malerkotla in Indian Punjab.[3]
References
- ^ The Asiatic review, Volume 15 By East India Association (London, England) page 275 .. the Namdhari, an extremist Indian sect, not being found north or west of the ...
- ^ Henry Schwarz; Sangeeta Ray (2004). A companion to postcolonial studies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 261–. ISBN 978-0-631-20663-7.
- ^ Singh, Bajinder Pal, 2005. After 133 years of anonymity, Kukar martyrs finally get a name