Khalsa

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The headmen in the neighbourhood refused to deliver the _khalsa_ grain they had been ordered to furnish, and, assisted by a body of Ghilzais from Ghazni and Wardak, they attacked our Cavalry charged with collecting it, and murdered our agent, Sirdar Mahomed Hussein Khan. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)

A1 _khalsa_, or State grain, we took as our right, the justice of this being recognized both by the Amir and the people, but what was the property of private individuals was purchased at a price the avaricious Afghan could not resist. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)

The Sikh Army was known as Dal Khalsa, or the Army of God, _khalsa_ being an Arabic word meaning one's own. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)

Government dues; but they were driven back, as he pretends that he got it in mortgage from Dumber Sing, who had taken a short lease of that and other khalsa villages, and absconded as a defaulter; and that he has purchased the lands from the cultivating proprietors, and is, therefore, bound to pay no revenue whatever for them-to the King. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

They find, moreover, that the sufferings of others enable them to get cultivators and useful tenants of all kinds upon their own estates, on more easy terms, and to induce the smaller allodial or khalsa proprietors around, to yield up their lands to them, and become their tenants with less difficulty. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Almost all the khalsa lands of the Hissampoor purgunnah belonged to the different branches of a very ancient and respectable family of ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Khan, from 1797 to 1814, never under any circumstances to permit the transfer of _khalsa_ or allodial lands (that is, lands held immediately under the Crown) to tallookdars or baronial proprietors, who paid a quit-rent to Government, and managed their estates with their own fiscal officers, and military and police establishments. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Hadee Allee Khan's successors continued the system of transferring khalsa lands to tallookdars, as the cheapest and most effectual mode of collecting the revenue for their brief period of authority. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Ghazee-od Deen Hyder; and transferred the khalsa estates of all defaulters to the neighbouring tallookdars, who pledged themselves to liquidate the balances due, and pay the Government demand punctually in future. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

Every day in prayer Sikhs recite "Raj Kare Ga Khalsa," which means "The khalsa shall rule." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, who organized the community of Sikhs into a khalsa - "a spiritual brotherhood devoted to purity of thought and action." ❋ Unknown (2010)

At a state level function to commemorate the creation of khalsa panth and symbol of punjab's rich cultural heritage here, Mr. Badal said that the Sikhs would not tolerate any sort of high handedness in their religious affairs by the Congress as its leadership had always instigating the Sikh community to divide them to take over the control of SGPC. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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