[1] Guru Balak Singh gave him "Patasha" (sugar bubbles), a coconut, five paise coins and took five rounds around him in reverence and bowed before him, making him his successor.

[9] Guru Ram Singh was wary of the political, cultural, and spiritual decline of the Sikhs and worried about the growing influence of the British on the horizon and what it meant for the community.

[12] Namdhari Sikhs were also referred to as Kukas, a name given by the public due to spiritually ecstatic behavior of the members of the sect at religious functions.

[5] Guru Ram Singh taught that the Namdhari sect was the "clean" one due to its devotion to God, and those who killed animals and consumed liqour were mleccha ("unclean").

[1] After the police crackdown, Guru Ram Singh had been restricted to only his native village for an indefinite period of time by the colonial authorities.

[17] The ill practices of child marriage, female infanticide, swapping of wives and sale of girls, prevalent in the then Punjab, were vehemently opposed by Namdhari Guru Ram Singh.

[18] The priestly class got worried on the introduction of this simple ritual and fearing loss of income, reported to the imperial British authorities.

[5] One aim of Namdhari Guru Ram Singh was to orient the strength of people towards freedom and the first step to undertake this task, was to introduce reform of their character and prevent the downfall of the Sikhs everywhere.

The British imperialists had supported anti-social elements to wedge a divide among Punjabis by encouraging cow slaughter, a practice that was completely banned in the Sikh empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

[21] Similarly, other changes were brought, one of which was construction of a tall, Gothic cathedral style Clock Tower in the vicinity of Golden Temple, the sacred place of Sikhs.

The management of Golden Temple was practically entirely in the hands of the imperial Government and there was no care among the priestly class for Sikh sentiments.

[22] The Clock Tower, whose construction started in 1864, was built by demolishing the structures Bunga of Kanwar Naunihal Singh and the Attari of Rani Sada Kaur, which were very dear to the Sikhs.

In the late nineteenth century, the support of colonial administration to kine-killing had become publicly evident, and was reported in a number of newspapers like Aftab-i-Punjab (Lahore), Wasir-ul-Mulk (Sialkot), Koh-i-Nur (Lahore), which explicitly stated that "kine-killing was done by the orders of the authorities who 'desired that disharmony should prevail' between Hindus and Muslims.

[25]" Way back in 1862, the Maharaja of Patiala had petitioned for introduction of a bill to ban the sale of beef in India, while acting as a member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council.

[1][7] In January 1872, an argument took place between a Muslim butcher and a Sikh, Gurmukh Singh Namdhari at Muslim-dominated Punjabi locality and princely state Malerkotla.

[1] The British were extremely worried about the potential of a possible uprising and treated this case as one, thus they decided to enact a barbaric punishment on the accused.

After homegrown attempts at forcing the British out of India having failed, Guru Ram Singh turned to petitioning the assistance of foreign powers for his goal of independence.

Namdhari Guru Ram Singh kept communicating with his disciples in Punjab through the means of secret letters termed Hukamnamas.

[28] These, along with his brother Namdhari Guru Hari Singh, kept the morale of largely persecuted Sikhs high and they remained and worked as the opponents of British imperialism.

A telegraph issued from Rangoon on 8 December 1885 reports on the death of Ram Singh to "old-age", "diarrhea", and "general debility".

- Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian freedom fighter[30] Guru Ram Singh considered independence as an element of religion.

The task of non-cooperation campaigned vehemently by Mahatma Gandhi was propagated by Guru Ram Singh fifty years back among the Namdharis.

- Rajendra Prasad, Indian freedom fighter The revered Baba Ram Singh Ji was truly a transformational personality of the century.