Satguru Ram Singh

• MoS released a commemorative coin of Rs 200/- and a currency coin of Rs 10/- on the occasion of bicentennial birth anniversary of Sri Satguru Ram Singh Ji.

SATGURU RAM SINGH JI :

• Namdhari Guru Ram Singh (3 February 1816 – 1885) was the second guru (religious leader) of the Namdhari sect of Sikhism.
• He was a great philanthropist, a thinker, seer and a great social reformer.
• Satguru was the first to use Non- cooperation and swadeshi as a tool to liberate the country from the yokes of British rulers. He preached and practiced among the people to be Indian, remain Indian and buy Indian.
• He asked the people not to kill the girl child in infancy and raised a movement against Sati Pratha, to provide equal rights of education to the girl child. He fixed the age of marriage at 18 and 20 for girls and boys respectively in 1857.
• He was exiled to Myanmar in 1872.