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Freda Bedi (born Freda Marie Houlston; 5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977), ... He was a Sikh whose family traced back to Guru Nanak Dev Ji. [citation needed] ...
His father, Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, was a Punjabi Sikh author, philosopher and a direct descendent of Guru Nanak. [4] [5] His mother, Freda Bedi, was an English woman born in Derby, England, [4] [6] who became famous as the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism. [7]
The Young Lamas Home School was a school established by the 14th Dalai Lama and Freda Bedi in 1960. [1] Its funding was provided by Christopher Hills and its early abbot was Karma Thinley Rinpoche. Freda Bedi asked Chogyam Trungpa to train young Tibetan monks, and then he became the spiritual advisor of them. [2]
Sanyal started organizing painting exhibitions to fund the Norah Centre for Arts and a resort. Noted painter, Sobha Singh, most known for making Sikh religious painting, moved in and stayed here till his death in 1986. [2] [3] Richards nurtured Punjabi theatre through the 1940s and 1960s, and came to be known as the "grandmother of Punjabi ...
Khem Singh Bedi. The palace was built by a Sikh spiritual and political leader who was the direct descendant, in the fourteenth place, of Guru Nanak, Baba Khem Singh Bedi [6] in the later half of the 19th century. [7] When Khem Singh Bedi's was aged 16 (circa 1848), his family moved to Kallar Syedan. [1]
Sahib Singh Bedi, a descendant of Guru Nanak Dev, conducted the coronation. [197] Gujranwala served as his capital from 1799. In 1802 he shifted his capital to Lahore and Amritsar. Ranjit Singh rose to power in a very short period, from a leader of a single Sikh misl to finally becoming the Maharaja (Emperor) of Punjab.
Former India captain was well known for the rhythm and control of his bowling on the cricket pitch
Sultan Muzaffar Shah I, the founder of the Gujarat Sultanate, a Muslim Khatri kingdom and its ruling Muzaffarid Dynasty. He was a Tanka Khatri convert to Islam. [9]Maharaja Bijay Chand Mahtab Kapoor GCIE, KCSI, IOM, with origins from Kotli, Sialkot was the ruler of Bardhaman Raj in Bengal from 1887 till his death in 1941.