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He was a religious leader and social reformer, a spiritual teacher and national leader and the first Indian to use non-cooperation and boycotting of British merchandise and services as a political weapon. Ram Singh launched his revolt against the British on 12 April 1857 by hoisting a white flag of freedom and announcing a programme of far-reaching significance. He was the eldest of four children of Jassa Singh, a carpenter by profession, Ramgarhia by caste, and Sada Kaur.
His early education in Gurmukhi and Gurbani and the Granth Sahib was at Bhaini Sahib.
Two months later all Kuka meetings were banned. Ram Singh called for the people to boycott British government services, British-run educational institutions and law courts, and foreign-manufactured goods as well as defy British laws.
His fight for independence was a turning point in world history for it eventually sounded the death-knell of colonial rule in the British empire. Mahatma Gandhi later used similar non-cooperation and civil disobedience as political weapons against the British.
His ideas played a key part in securing India"s Independence from the British.
In 1872 after the Malerkotala Massacre the whole Kuka movement was outlawed, Bhaini sahib was surrounded.