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100 Rupees 150 Years of Kuka Movement 1857-2007
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 35.00 g |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari/Latin |
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| Reverse description | A forward-facing bust of Satguru Ram Singh Ji, founder of the Kuka (Namdhari) movement, occupies the central field, depicted with a long white beard and traditional turban. To the left in the mid-ground, a group of standing figures is rendered in low relief, evoking the followers of the movement. To the right, additional figures in period dress are shown in a processional scene. The bilingual legend 'कूका आंदोलन के 150 वर्ष' and '150 YEARS OF KUKA MOVEMENT' arcs around the upper periphery, while the name 'सतगुरू राम सिंह जी' and 'SATGURU RAM SINGH JI' appear within the inner circle above the portrait. The commemorative date range '1857-2007' is inscribed along the lower periphery, flanked by decorative dots. |
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The Kuka Movement — also called the Namdhari movement — was founded by Baba Balak Singh and later led by Baba Ram Singh in Punjab, whose followers rejected British authority so completely that they refused to use colonial courts, schools, postal services, or imported goods decades before Gandhi formalized such tactics. In 1872, the British response to a Kuka raid on Malerkotla was swift and extrajudicial: Deputy Commissioner Cowan had 49 Kukans blown from cannons without trial, an act that embarrassed even the colonial administration enough to have him censured.
The commemorative dates 1857–2007 on this issue quietly fold the Kuka Movement into the broader Mutiny centenary narrative, a framing that remains contested among Namdhari scholars.