Una, just over the present Himachal border from Hoshiarpur, is the seat of the Bedi family descended from Guru Nanak Dev Ji through his son Baba Lakhmi Das.
Baba Sahib Singh Bedi of Una crowned Ranjit Singh Ji at Lahore in 1801, applying the tilak. The Bedi lineage carried great prestige in Punjab and considerable land, and its heads were treated as religious authorities in their own right by a large following.
Baba Khem Singh Bedi, in the later nineteenth century, was a leading figure of the Sanatan wing of the Singh Sabha and its Amritsar branch, opposing the Tat Khalsa reformers on ritual, on caste and on the status of hereditary lineages.
The Sanatan side lost. What that meant in practice was that hereditary descendants of the Gurus ceased to have standing in Sikh institutional life, which is a substantial change and is rarely described as one.
The Bedi seat at Una still exists. Una district went to Himachal in 1966.
Una lies at the edge of the plain and the Bedi family established there held large jagirs on both sides of the boundary.
The line at Una was a centre of authority in the nineteenth century and the dera there was a substantial institution.
The descendants of the Gurus' families, the Bedis and the Sodhis, held property and prestige across Punjab, and their history has never been written as a single account.