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'''Bhinder Kalan''' ('''ਭਿੰਡਰ ਕਲਾਂ''') is a village in [[Punjab, India]] located in [[Dharamkot, Moga|Dharamkot]] tehsil of [[Moga district|Moga]] district.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bhinder Kalan, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ |url=http://wikiedit.org/India/Bhinder-Kalan/12385/ |website=wikiedit.org |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref> Earlier its name was Bhinder, but in [[1823]], some people from this village settled a new village Bhinder Khurd due to the increase in population and its name was changed to Bhinder Kalan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhinder |first1=Mukhtiar Singh |title=Anmol Lal |date=October 1997 |pages=8 |edition=First}}</ref> The village was founded in the 15th century by Sardar Chanan of the Toor tribe on the advice of a sanyasi sadhu Suman.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhinder |first1=Mukhtiar Singh |title=Anmol Lal |date=October 1997 |pages=7 |edition=First}}</ref> Its PIN code is 142041.<ref>{{cite web |title=Postal Code: BHINDER KALAN, Post Bhinder SO Firozpur (Firozpur, Punjab) |url=https://pincodearea.in/BHINDER-KALAN-Pincode-PO-Bhinder-SO-Firozpur |website=PinCodeArea |access-date=7 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The village has a higher secondary school, a girls' high school and a primary school. The village was in media headlines after the village [[sarpanch]] was accused of performing [[exorcism]] on a teenage girl that eventually led to her death.<ref>{{cite news |title=Woman sarpanch in Punjab kills niece to 'rid her of evil spirits' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/woman-sarpanch-in-punjab-kills-niece-to-rid-her-of-evil-spirits/articleshow/15617463.cms |access-date=7 March 2024 |work=The Times of India |date=24 August 2012}}</ref> The village is also notable for being the base of [[Damdami Taksal]]'s Sampardai Bhindran at the Gurdwara Akhand Parkash Sahib from which many Sikh preachers took their name among whom prominent names are Sant [[Sundar Singh Bhindranwale]] (founder of Bhindranwale Lineage within Damdami Taksal), Sant Gurbachan Singh Bhindranwale, Sant [[Kartar Singh Bhindranwale]], Sant [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]], Sant Mohan Singh Bhindranwale, Giani Mewa Singh Bhindranwale .<ref>{{cite news |title=Sant Jarnail Singh ji Bhindrenwale |url=http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/bhindrenwale.html |access-date=7 March 2024 |work=Sikh-History |date=24 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070324110547/http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/bhindrenwale.html |archive-date=24 March 2007 |quote=He engaged himself in farming until 1965 when he joined the Damdami Taksal of Bhinder Kalan village, about 15 km north of Moga, then headed by Sant Gurbachan Singh Khalsa. Hence the epithet Bhindrenwale.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Pashaura, Michael Hawley |title=Re-imagining South Asian Religions: Essays in Honour of Professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt |date=2012 |publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004242371 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qT0yAQAAQBAJ&q=Bhindran+Kalan&pg=PA38}}</ref><br />
[[File:Image of Sant Mohan Singh Bhindranwale.png|thumb|Sant Mohan Singh, who was the head of the Gurudwara Akhand Prakash till his death on 2020.]]<br />
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