Tat Khalsa

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Tat Khalsa (the 'True Khalsa') Singh Sabha was a Sikh organization founded in Lahore in 1879 to rival the earlier Sanatan Singh Sabha.

According to Doris R. Jakobsh, "For the British administration, particularly the military establishment, initiation into the Khalsa brotherhood was viewed as indispensable in the creation of the ideal Sikh fighting machine. . . . The hegemonic Tat Khalsa position, benefiting greatly from the institutional support of the British Raj, asserted that only those initiated into the Khalsa in accordance with the injunctions of Guru Gobind Singh were true Sikhs"

The leader of Tat Khalsa Singh sabha was Bhai Gurmukh Singh, a professor at the Oriental College of Lahore. He contacted Bhai Kanh Singh of Nabha, a notable scholar, who wrote Mahan Kosh (encyclopaedia of Sikhism) and Ham Hindu Nahi (We are not Hindus). Bhai Gurmukh Singh and Bhai Kanh Singh cooperated with Max Arthur Macauliffe, a divisional judge, to undertake the translation of Granth Sahib (finished in 1909). Both moral and financial support was given.

[edit] Links

• The Better Half of Sikh History
• The Singh Sabha Movement

[edit] Literature

• Jakobsh, Doris R., "Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity", New Delhi 2003.
• Oberoi, Harjot, „The Construction of Religious Boundaries. Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition”, New Delhi 1994.