Garibdasi

Religious community founded by
the religious reformer Garibdas (early
18th c.). The Garibdasi community
was originally made up of householders, but was fundamentally altered by
one of the later leaders, Swami
Dayaludasa. Under his direction, the
community renounced their possessions and became an ascetic sect. The
Garibdasis have more than one hundred centers in northern India, mainly
concentrated in the regions of Uttar
Pradesh and Haryana around present-day New Delhi, where Garibdas
lived during his life.