ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BANDA&#298</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BANDA*"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BANDA&#298, name given to the followers of the Sikh hero, Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur (1670-1716), who regarded him not only as a military leader but also as Gur&#363 next to Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh in spiritual succession. They were opposed and ultimately expelled in 1721 by the mainstream of the Sikhs, the Tatt <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257. A small number of Banda&#299 Sikhs still survive. They reverence the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib as their Scripture and most of them also undergo the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 initiatory rites, but Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur is for them their eleventh Gur&#363 against the common Sikh belief of the spiritual line having ended with Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh, the Tenth Master.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Cunningham, Joseph Davey, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>. London, 1849<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganda Singh, <i>Life of Banda Singh Bahadur</i>. Amritsar, 1935<BR> <li class="C1"> Nripinder Singh, <i>The Sikh Moral Tradition</i>. Delhi, 1990<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sudarshan Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>