A short drive from Jagraon, the village of Kaleran is home to Thaath Nanaksar Kaleran, the principal seat of the Nanaksar Sampardaya founded by the revered Sant Baba Nand Singh Ji, a saint whose decades of intense simran and seva turned a modest rural dera into one of the Malwa region's most visited centres of devotion. Today the thaath draws Sangat from across Ludhiana district and well beyond, particularly around major gurpurabs, for its distinctive rehit of quiet, disciplined worship rather than large-scale spectacle.
The Nanaksar movement that grew from Kaleran has since planted gurdwaras across the Sikh world — in Alberta, British Columbia, England and beyond — each one carrying the Kaleran name and its founder's teachings on humility, restraint in speech, and constant remembrance of Naam. This week's news of an attack at one such Nanaksar gurdwara in Edmonton, half a world away, was a sharp reminder of just how far Kaleran's spiritual footprint now reaches, and how closely Jagraon's diaspora families track events at gurdwaras that share their village's name.
For local seva groups in Jagraon, the thaath remains a point of pride and civic identity as much as faith: langar committees, youth societies and local trusts frequently coordinate blood donation camps, free medical checkups and educational support drives timed to coincide with the thaath's calendar of samagams. Community elders say maintaining that link between the physical dera at Kaleran and the sprawling diaspora Sangat abroad is precisely the kind of daily seva that keeps Jagraon's name alive on Sikh calendars far from Punjab.
Source: SikhiWiki; official Thaath Nanaksar Kaleran website (nanaksarkaleran.com).
