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One day a squad of army pensioners led by Subedar Amar Singh Dhaliwal from Kapurthala state courted ...in protest the blue turban at his work and when challenged by his superior British officers he resigned form job under protest. He joined Gandhiji's swadeshi

...ry Division claimed that he had refused to accept the advice of two senior Army officers to kill the militants taken into custody during [[Operation Bluest ...kistan's]] first [[Sikh]] officer and a symbol of the changing face of its army. Dressed in a smart khaki uniform and sporting a solitary star on his shoul

...t in organizing a meeting to protest against the atrocity committed by the British in the Jallianvala Bagh (13 April 1919). For this he had to leave the Colle ...izenship and graduated in military sciences, receiving a commission in the army. Five years later, Teja Singh moved to Berlin, which had been another impor

...at the start of World War II, 1500 beds were made available to the British Army, as thousands of troops filled Kolkata. By 1941, M. S. Oberoi was becoming

...Indian nationalist leaders and involvement in popular causes had irked the British government. ...forced to abdicate in favour of his minor son, Partap Singh. Although the British officials pronounced his abdication to be voluntary, the [[Akali]]s and oth

...hem to wear their five Ks. Anyone trimming his beard was thrown out of the army. ...e Gurdwara Sahib opened days before Kenya gained its independence from the British on December 12, 1963.

...nation`s conscience and morals. After the occupation of the Punjab by the British in 1849, Akali regiments were disbanded and, military service being their o

...holding which could not provide enough to the family to survive. He joined army. Gurmukh Singh was intelligent, gifted with self-confidence and good physiq ...agraon planned to work to bring about a revolution for freedom. They hoped army would see their way. It was a desperate move resulting in the Lahore conspi

...the army for their self advance, and made lavish promises to it. The Sikh army in Kashmir also showed signs of restiveness which in course of time broke i ...ad greatly weakened the military, might of the Sikhs. In Kashmir. the Sikh army had made itself very unpopular by its unruly conduct. What was needed was t

...Singh was ruling in the 1830-40s, but in the first sensus conducted by the British they found the Sikhs population to be approximately 780,000 in the Punjab. ...sponsibility in the civil administration. Sikhs now serving in the British army see their sons left in their native villages, far from the tide of civiliza

...en along with destined to be sold as slave in the Abdali markets, the Sikh army although far fewer in numbers than those they attacked, made up the differa ...hen there occurred a similar incidence, people started to contact the Sikh army for their help. This continued for some time and soon the word or legend sp

...mmunity (Grewal). His father, Sardar Hoshnak Singh, was a Jawan in the Army. His mother's name was Prem Kaur. Gurumukh Singh had his early chooling i ...e Ghadar Party in America and had been actively working for destroying the British rule in India by violent means. While at school he read the biographies of

...tribesmen in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), now in Pakistan? The British Parliament had then arisen as one man to pay its respect to these gallant S ...d history. It continues to be the highest decorated regiment in the Indian Army with 73 battle honours and 38 theatre honours. The regiment also enjoys the

...es to his side. The Mughals, the Marathas, the Rohillas, the Jutts and the British sought his friendship, and, above all, he was a devout Sikh; amrit prachar In March 1776, Baghel Singh's forces gave a crushing defeat to the Mughal army near Muzaffarnagar; thus Sikhs extended their influence on the whole of the

...ry's Asians and European citizens and forced around 30,000 Asians holding British Passports to flee to Britain.

...alled themselves Babbar Akalis, babar meaning lion. Their targets were the British officers and their Indian informers. They were strongly attached to their S ...ota Singh and Kishan Singh Gargajj, a retired havildar major of the Indian army, held a secret meeting and made up a plan to avenge themselves upon those r

...ose hands he received the Sikh initiatory rites. After the arrest by the British of Bhai Maharaj Singh in December 1849, Thakar Singh and his father f

...:Turban Demonstration in support of UK Sikhs on 10 october 1982 before the British Embassy in Amsterdam.jpg|700px]] ...>Turban Demonstration in support of UK Sikhs on 10 october 1982 before the British Embassy in Amsterdam</small>

...mber 1849 as he was planning a revolt with Punjabi soldiers in the British Army.

...The Canadian government had issued prohibition against their entry and the British ships had refused to accept any Punjabi travelers. The Canadian law stated, ...r a long and painful struggle. Upon return, the ship was fired upon by the British at BajBaj Ghat in Calcutta. The returning passengers were either arrested o