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Guru Balakdas (18 August 1805 — 17 March 1860) was son of the founder of the
Satnampanth Satnampanth, also called Satnami Samaj, Satnami movement, or Sadhanpanth, This sect is thought to be an offshoot of the Ravidassia sect (sampradaya) founded by Bir Bhan (1543-1620 AD), of Narnaul district. His guru was Udhodas, the pupil of Sain ...
, Guru Ghasidas. Guru Balakdas' activities aroused the hostility of higher cast hindu, and he was murdered by feudalistic attackers at a rest-house at Aurabandha village in Bilaspur while travelling to Raipur in 1860.


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