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Lions and Princesses
An examination of the origins of the Khalsa, the collective body of initiated Sikhs
An explanation of the origins of the Khalsa, the collective body of all initiated Sikhs, represented by the five Beloved Ones. In 1699, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobin Singh, gathered his followers for the Spring Harvest festival, but that year events were to take a dramatic turn. The programme looks at what happened next and the significance of those events to Sikhism.
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