Khem Singh Bedi

He claimed to be the thirteenth direct descendant of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.

Bedi lent his full support to the scheme, additionally opening his own schools in Rawalpindi.

[4][5] He distinguished himself in a cavalry charge on 21 September 1857, and the following day narrowly escaped an ambush which killed the Extra Assistant Commissioner of Gogera, Leopold Fitzhardinge Berkeley.

They campaigned for an inclusive interpretation that accepted wide range of beliefs drawn from Hinduism and Islam.

[11] [They removed] his gaddī cushions in the parkarmā of the Golden Temple from underneath him to show that the use of a masnad, a high seat, could not be permitted in the precincts of the holy Darbar Sahib, as the Golden Temple is called by the Sikhs, to any person, however highly placed he might be, and that they did not acknowledge him as Guru of the Sikhs.He was appointed a magistrate in 1877 and made a Companion of the Indian Empire in 1879.

A haveli (traditional Indic house) was constructed by Khem Singh Bedi in Kallar Syedan (located in present-day Rawalpindi district, Pakistan).