Religious Reform among the Sikhs

Religious Reform among the Sikhs
The Khalsa college initiated religious reform among the Sikhs. The reform effort gained momentum after 1920 when the Akali Movement rose in the Punjab. The main aim of the Akalis was to purify the management of the Gurudwaras or Sikh shrines. These GurUdwaras had been heavily endowed with land and money by devout Sikhs. But they had come to be managed by corrupt and selfish mahants. The Akalis started in 1921 a powerful satyagraha against the mahants and the Government which aided them.
The Akali Movement soon forced the Government to pass a new Gurudhara Act in 1922. The Sikhs gradually turned out of Gurudwaras the corrupt mahants.