Granthin.

1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Grunthee, a sort of native chaplain attached to Sikh regiments.

1905 L. Griffin Ranjit Singh iii. 39 Dr Trumpp..found that the Sikh priests and Granthis (readers and expounders of the Scriptures) were marvellously ignorant of..their own religion.

1938 J. C. Archer Faiths Men live By xiii. 312 Every twenty-four hours the Book is read through by a relay of granthis or ‘readers of the Granth’.

1972 M. J. Leaf Information & Behaviour in Sikh Village iv. 109 Fortunately the village granthi, an acknowledged neutral, spoke up in my behalf and prevented their entering the building for this purpose.

1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies viii. 443 I had to sit there in the entrance, and the village granthi—the reader of the Sikh scriptures—was called, and he gave me some water, to purify my misdeed.

2002 N. Minhas Chapatti or Chips? xxv. 284 All facing ahead listening to the Granthi with his chavar, paying homage with their patience, as he read aloud from the Granth Sahib (a book filled with hymns, written by the Sikh gurus).