{"id":4912,"date":"2023-01-15T05:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:40:47","slug":"what-is-maghi-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-maghi-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Maghi Mela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Maghi Mela<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is held every year in January or the month of Magh according to the Nanakshahi calendar.<\/li>\n<li>The Mela is celebrated in memory of 40 Sikh warriors who fought the Mughals in <strong>the battle of Khidrana<\/strong>, which was named Muktsar after the battle.<\/li>\n<li>The battle took place near a pool of water, Khidrane di Dhabi, on 29 December 1705.<\/li>\n<li>The bodies of the warriors were cremated the following day, the first of Magh (hence the name of the festival), which now falls usually on the 13th of January.<\/li>\n<li>Sikhs celebrate the Maghi with an end-to-end recital of the holy <strong>Guru Granth Sahib <\/strong>and religious rituals in all the Sikh Gurudwaras.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Nanakshahi Calendar?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nanakshahi calendar was designed by Sikh scholar Pal Singh Purewal to replace the Bikrami calendar, to work out the dates of gurpurab and other festivals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the Panj Takht of Sikh community?<\/h3>\n<p>Panj Takht of Sikh community are, Akal Takht, Kesgarh\u00a0 Sahib , Damdama Sahib, Sri Hazur Sahib &amp; Sri Harmindir Sahib.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>What is Maghi Mela and why is it politically important in Punjab?<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maghi Mela is held every year in January or the month of Magh according to the Nanakshahi calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}