Sangat Sahib

Sangat Sahib (1640 – 1706), also spelt as Sangata Sahib, also known as Bhai Pheru, was an Udasi leader and the founder of one of the six main Bakhshishan sub-sects of the Udasis. His followers are known as Sangat Sahibias, Sangat Sahibie or Sangat Sahie. He served as a masand of the Nikka Desh region from the period of Guru Har Rai to Guru Gobind Singh, being based out of Mian Ke Maur. He is also known as Sangat Pheru and Satyasmaaru. Followers of his order would later found the Udasin Panchayati Naya Akhara in 1839. Sangat Sahib had forty disciples, some of them were Baba Brindavana and Baba Narayana Dasa. One of Sangat's disciples was Mahant Narain Das of Dera-i Khurd in Kasur. The location where Sangat had his centre (near Mian Ke Maur in the Nakka region) became known as Bhai Pheru, now Phool Nagar.