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Panth

The Panth is the collective community of Sikhs, regarded as a body bound by shared faith and guided by the Guru. In the Sikh Empire, Ranjit Singh presented himself as a servant of the Khalsa and the Sikh Panth. This lent his rule a sacral dimension alongside his secular title of Maharaja.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Panth. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/panth
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