The formation of the Khalsa in 1699 heralded the ascendancy of Jat peasants in the Punjab, according to historians. The Guru had dinned into the timid peasantry of the Punjab that they must take the broom of Divine knowledge and sweep way the filth of timidity Singh writes about this in his chapter From Pacifist Sikh to Militant Khalsa:
Of Guru Gobind Singh’s Panj Pyaras (Five Beloved Ones), the second was Dharam Dass, a Jat peasant from Hastinapur near modern-day Meerut.
Indeed, the most pivotal event in the history of Sikhism and of Punjab’s Jat community was the founding of the Khalsa on April 13, 1699. In a story related to earning an honest living, Guru Gobind Singh was noted in the Suraj Prakash (Rut 3, Chp 43) praising Farmers for their hard work and charitable nature with the famous saying: /yqVaHXFW9F Jvala Singh, a Sikh writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently tweeted about Guru Gobind Singh’s views on farming: Singh devoted a large amount of text in the first volume to how Sikhism’s growth was tied to the Jat community of the Punjab.Īlthough the founders and many of the leaders of the movement were not agriculturists, its backbone was the Jat peasantry of the central plains - The Sikh Homeland, Volume 1, A History of the Sikhs Nanak not only founded a new religion and started a new pattern of living, he also set in motion an agrarian movement whose impact was felt all over the country Take for instance what he said in the chapter Birth of Sikhism in volume 1 of his authoritative A History of the Sikhs: Khushwant Singh, the late Sikh author, historian and journalist made some very keen observations on the relationship between the peasantry and Sikhism. The land to which Nanak belonged to, was, to begin with, an overtly agrarian society. The Sikh faith was started by Guru Nanak in the Punjab between 14. The history of Sikhism is rife with incidents and events where peasants have been major actors and even leaders. But their colourful turbans make them the most distinct. Sikh peasants, mostly from Punjab, have trooped into the national capital in their hundreds of thousands, joined by farmers from other parts of north India. The protests only validate the importance of the peasantry in Sikh theology and culture. The very visible participation of Punjabi Sikh peasants in the ongoing protests against the three farm laws should come as no surprise to those who have studied Sikhism.
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