Dera Sucha Sauda -Sikh conflict in India

[Bharatvarsh]

As for Banda, many old accounts claim that he tried to become the 11th Guru and changed the Sikh salutation and promoted vegetarianism which caused a rift within his forces with some people breaking away from him and calling themselves as the Tat Khalsa (nothing to do with modern day Tat Khalsa movement), some Sikh accounts say he was given Amrit, others say that he was never baptised, at any rate the general story is that Guru Gobind Singh's wife Mata Sundari wrote to him asking him to stop his campaign which he refused to do and upon that he was excommunicated and that later on Bhai Mani Singh settled the dispute between tat Khalsa and Bandai Khalsa.

"According to orthodox Sanatan Sikh tradition and Budha Dal oral tradition as recounted in Pracheen Panth Prakash, over time, Banda was overwhelmed with false pride and became arrogant. His mistreatment of the Khalsa, and alterations of the Guru-ordained Khalsa traditions, resulted in the Khalsa warriors loosing respect for him. Banda declared himself a Guru, advocated teetotalism (a throwback to his earlier life as a Vairagi), altered the Khalsa salutation, stopped wearing blue, etc. The mighty Akali Nihang Singh Khalsa, lead by Akali Nihang Baba Binod Singh and his son, Akali Nihang Baba Kahn Singh opposed these Hindu Vairagi innovations of Banda. Such was the fighting that the Akali Nihang warriors risked martyrdom in order to oppose Banda:

‘Banda wished to make Sikh abandon their blue dress, to refrain from drinking and eating flesh: and instead of exclaiming Wa! Guruji ki Futteh! Wa! Khalsaji ki Futteh! The salutations directed by Govind, he directed them to exclaim, Futteh D’herm! Futteh dersan! Which means, ‘Success to piety! Success to the sect!’ These innovations were very generally resisted: but the dreaded severity of Banda, made many conform to his orders. The class of Acalis, or immortals, who had been established by Guru Govind, continued to oppose the innovations with great obstinacy: and many of them suffered martyrdom, rather than change either their mode of salutation, diet or dress: and, at the death of Banda, their cause triumphed. All the institutions of Guru Govind were restored.’
‘Sketch Of The Sikhs’, by J.C. Malcolm, 1812, P. 83

Aside from confusing the Sikh salutation, everything stated by Malcolm in the quote can be collaborated by Akali Nihang oral tradition, Rattan Singh Bhangu’s 'Pracheen Panth Prakash', and Giani Gian Singh Nirmala’s 'Naveen Panth Prakash'. Banda was eventually declared an apostate and excommunicated from the Sikh faith. With this split within the Khalsa, two factions arose – the followers of Banda became to be known as ‘Bandai Khalsa’, and the Akali Nihang Khalsa came to be referred to as the ‘Tat’ (pure) Khalsa or ‘Akal Purkhieh’ (those believing in the Immortal Almighty).

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The book my Malcolm is available online and contains the exact same quote.