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In the 18th century, under a number of able leaders, the Sikhs organised themselves into a number of bands called Jathas, and later on misls. Their combined forces were known as the grand army (Dal Khalsa). The entire body used to meet at Amritsar at the time of Baisakhi and Diwali to take collective decisions known as ?Resolution of the Guru (Gurumatas). A system called rakhi was introduced, offering protection to cultivators on the payment of a tax of 20 percent of the produce. Guru Gobind Singh had inspired the Khalsa with the belief that their destiny was to rule (Raj Karega Khalsa.) Their well-knit organisation enabled them to put a successful resistance to the Mughal governors first and then to Ahmad Shah Abdali who has seized the rich province of Punjab and the Sarkar of Sirhind from the Mughals. The Khalsa declared their sovereign rule by striking their own coin again in 1765.
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