Tat Khalsa (the 'True Khalsa') Singh Sabha organization was founded in Lahore in 1879 to rival the earlier Sanatan Singh Sabha. Sanatan Singh Sabha, a Sikh organization of the Sikhs, was organized by traditional Sikhs (called Sanatan Sikhs) in 1873. ...

According to Doris R. Jakobsh,"For the British administration, particularly the military establishment, initiation into the Khalsa brotherhood was viewed as indispensable in the creation of the ideal Sikh fighting machine. . . . The hegemonic Tat Khalsa position, benefiting greatly from the institutional support of the British Raj, asserted that only those initiated into the Khalsa in accordance with the injunctions of Guru Gobind Singh were true Sikhs"

The leader of Tat Khalsa Singh sabha was Bhai Gurmukh Singh, a professor at the Oriental College of Lahore. Bhai Kanh Singh of Nabha, a notable scholar was contacted who wrote Mahan Kosh (encyclopaedia of Sikhism) and Ham Hindu Nahi (We are not Hindus). Bhai Gurmukh Singh and Bhai Kanh Singh cooperated with Max Arthur Macauliffe a divisional judge to undertake the task of translating of Granth Sahib (finished in 1909). Both moral and financial support was given.. Max Arthur Macauliffe was a translator of Sikh religious writings. ...

Links

• The Better Half of Sikh History
• The Singh Sabha Movement

References

• Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity by Doris R. Jakobsh (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003).