Devotional Paths To The Divine — Social Science STD 7 — Question
Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 7Social ScienceDevotional Paths To The Divine5 Marks
Question
How did Khalsa panth become a political identity?
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Answer
By the beginning of the seventeenth century the town of Ramdaspur (Amritsar) had developed around the central Gurdwara called Harmandar Sahib (Golden Temple).
It was virtually self-governing and modern historians refer to the early seventeenth century Sikh community as a state within the state.
The Mughal emperor Jahangir looked upon them as a potential threat.
He ordered the execution of Guru Arjan in 1606.
The Sikh movement began to get politicized in the seventeenth century, a development which culminated in the institution of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.
The community of the Sikhs called the Khalsa panth, became a political entity.
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