History · Colonial Economy
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-I)
Passage
The Kuka movement was probably founded in western Punjab by Bhagat Jawahar Mal, generally known as Sian Sahib, in the forties of the nineteenth century, shortly before the British conquest of the Punjab. Its aim was to purify the Sikh religion by removing the abuses and superstitions that had crept into it, such as caste distinctions, the rigours imposed upon widows like those among the Hindus, and the worship of idols, tombs and ascetics.
Ram Singh, a prominent leader of the Kuka movement, declared himself as the incarnation of which Sikh Guru?
AGuru Gobind Singh ✓ Correct
BGuru Tegh Bahadur
CGuru Angad
DGuru Arjan Dev
Correct answer: (A) Guru Gobind Singh — He declared himself the incarnation of Guru Gobind Singh, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★He declared himself the incarnation of Guru Gobind Singh, so that is the answer.
★In 1863 the prominent Kuka leader Ram Singh declared himself the incarnation of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
★He also declared that he had come to form a new Kuka Khalsa.
★The Kuka movement was founded in western Punjab by Bhagat Jawahar Mal.
★Ram Singh made the movement popular.
★So Ram Singh declared himself the incarnation of Guru Gobind Singh.
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