The British were more comfortable with the Singh Sabha movement, which seemed to blend better also with general Sikh sentiment. Its start was triggered by an incident in 1873. ‘Four Sikh pupils of the Amritsar Mission School proclaimed their intention of renouncing their faith in favour of Christianity. This shocked Sikh feeling.’39 Meeting in Amritsar, a group of Sikhs including Thakur Singh Sandhanwalia (a relative of Ranjit Singh’s), Baba Khem Singh Bedi (from Guru Nanak’s clan), and Bikrama Singh (a Kapurthala prince whose relative, Harnam Singh, had become a Christian) established the
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