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...lan. His father, Dr. Kartar Singh Puri, served the [[Wikipedia:British Raj|British Raj]] as a medical doctor. His mother was named Harkrishan Kaur, Theirs was ==Indian Civil Service==

...Sir Charles Metcaife, then Governor of Agra and the rulers of a number of Indian Princely states. The rulers of Patiala, Faridkot, Kapurthala, Naraingarh, N ...any questions he asked him were about the size of the East India Company's army, the number of battles he had been in and the methods the English used to c

...Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire, p 215, Aakar Books, 2005 ...stivals. Maharajah Ranjit Singh was the first Asian ruler to modernize his army to European standards and was well known for filling the leadership positio

...and 1924, which outlawed their nomadic lifestyle. Reform, initiated by the Indian government, has been difficult because they are an “untouchable” caste •Sikhs: comp. under the orders of the government of India. by: India. Army; Bingley, A. H., 1865-1944. Publication date: 1899

A paradise for nature-lovers, Haridwar presents kaleidoscope of Indian culture and civilisation. Haridwar also termed as 'Gateway to Gods' is know ...life and time stretching from the period of the Buddha to the more recent British advent.

* ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' shows an Indian in the role of Captain Nemo (supposed to be a Sikh in the book), the captai * In ''Partition'' a Sikh man is shown serving for the British in WWII (this is a good thing, as many Sikhs laid down their lives for US,

...competition and was chosen for the coveted post of a civil officer of the British Raj. His love for education, however, brought him to the Khalsa College Amr ...regular Sikh Sangats on Sundays. To organize them formally, Khalsa Jatha, British Isles was founded.

==Sikhs & British Rule (1849-1947)== ...Saragarhi" in Afghanistan on 12th September 1897 became well known in the British Parliament when the unprecedented bravery of all the 22 men who had given u

...at Akal Takht for the protection of the country from the invaders. During British period, volunteers took a vow of non-violence at Akal Takht before partici ...embers of my family. Let him sit fully armed on his throne and maintain an army to the best of his ability.” (p-99; Volume 111).

...cy Case, he is reported to have told them: “my name has become a symbol of Indian revolution. The ideals and the sacrifices of the revolutionary party had ra ...however, was of a handsome young men who defied and challenged the mighty British Empire, avenged the national insult of the assault on Lala Lajpat Rai and s

...istani militants, but some Pakistanis believe it was members of the Indian Army. Efforts to get to the bottom of the massacre by talking with people who al ...hey were dressed in what appeared to be the regulation issue of the Indian Army.

...d heavily from these so-called 'Martial Races' for service in the colonial army. Hardy Sandhu - An Indian singer

...n India's side. When all the other Singhs had been martyred and the entire Indian Security Force was on his trail, he refused the order to go and hide in Pak ...h's uncle had become Shaheed in the [[Jaito Morcha]], marching against the British Raj.

..., jailing and abusing of innocent [[Sikh]]s in [[Delhi]] and other major [[Indian]] cities following the death of Prime minister, {{w|Indira Gandhi}} on 31 O ...ou will be judged among civilisations, such as the [[Mughal]]s and the {{w|British}} who reined before you!

[[Arnold Toynbee]] a British Historian when writing the Foreword in "The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs" b ...declaration, along with others, determined to erase the impurities of the Indian society. However, prejudices and injustices based on gender linger even tod

...e Muslim League’s way, which was known to be working in collusion with the British bureaucracy, and which moreover, was dominated by reactionary feudal elemen ==A British hand, puppeteers pulling the strings?==

...icing other professions, own most of the over fifty restaurants that serve Indian cuisine. He often inquires about the presence of Sikhs in Holland and their ...t city and then after a few years destroyed that very place by sending the army that resulted in the death of thousands of innocent devotees.

...ovincial Legislature was willing to walk into the Muslim League camp. The Indian Christians preferred to stand with the Congress with its ideal of a toleran ...st consisting of the province of the Punjab, Sind, North-West Frontier and British Baluchistan, the other in the north-east consisting of the provinces of Ben

==5 . Was the Singh Sabha Movement just a front for the British government ?== ...ttled against British rule and to think that these Sikhs colluded with the British is untrue.

The Sultan's army was easily defeated on 17 December 1398. Timur entered Delhi and the city w ...ng of Muslim conquest until the end the [[Mughal Empire]] throughout the [[Indian subcontinent]]. In the book "[[Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them]]", Si