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...or longer shirt) have been looked upon with suspicion, with some innocent people even being killed or wounded by uninformed and even deranged westerners ben However, this perception is wrong, as the vast majority of people in Western countries who wear turbans are actually [[Sikh]]s. Given that ma

1920: "The Akali," a daily Punjabi newspaper, started publication. 1949: Hindu members of the Punjab University opposed Punjabi as a medium of instruction.

...u I am failing as a Sikh. Jesus says that as you have treated the least of people, so you have treated me (Matthew 25:40). Guru Gobind Singh asked the discip ...nth is the Guru, though to the worshippers of body these are only ordinary people.

...sians and the Afghanis. But when the armies of Islam reached [[India]] the people refused to convert to Islam. ...e Royal [[Hindu]] warrior families (the Rajputs) as a political necessity. People were still however often treated savagely by the corrupt [[Mughal]] officia

...eld as Canada, Australia, India and the U.S. “It really aggravates me that people aren’t even aware of the religions out there. I can’t even believe that Hundreds of Canadian Sikhs are among nearly 4,000 people who have joined online petitions in support of a 14-year-old Sikh girl who

...Around 1900 BC, the river Saraswati started vanishing under ground and the people on its banks started migrating to other parts of South Asia thus forming su An estimate of the number of people killed, based on the Muslim chronicles and demographic calculations, was do

...then common languages of Braj or Punjabi, the vernacular languages of the people. The Guru also took many steps to beautify Paonta.

* '''Languages''': The avtars are written in Braj(Neoclassical), Avadhi, Punjabi and Persian languages. ...ce with the increasing and lessening of the fury of battle. Blank verse in Punjabi has been inserted for the first time by the poet in the Sirkhand metre (Ram

...sked a gathering of Sikhs, "who is prepared to die for God?" At first, the people hesitated, and then one man stepped forward, and he was taken to a tent. Af Some people are of the view that initiation may be administered to a boy or girl when h

Taran Singh [25], the then Head, Department of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, admits that the Sikh and non-Sikh writers belonging to "The people of the Punjab (and along with them those of the rest of India) became immed

...was excitement that India would be free; yet there were longdrawn faces of people who thought that freedom would affect them vitally and they would lose what ...ng a confederation of Indian States was also actively in the minds of some people. This meant that India would have been further divided, and there were also

'''Bhai Kahn Singh''' ([[Punjabi]] ਭਾਈ ਕਾਨ੝ਹ ਸਿਂਘ ਨਾਭਾ ), of [[Nabha]] ([[30 ...When he was 20 years old he wanted to study [[Persian]]. Learning of this, people urged his father, Baba Narayan Singh to not let his son study Persian. Neve

...English version of the Sikh Reht Maryada is a faithful translation of the Punjabi original. Translations do not generally need prefaces. Why the author of th ...ther Indian states and foreign countries with Punjabi are loosening. Also, people, the world over, have begun to evince interest in Sikhism and some have emb

In his Katha, Jathedar ji would often speak against the ills of Punjabi society, and encouraged social change. In his period, he helped thousands o ...nocents became victims of Police excesses. Through infiltration of dubious people, fear, threats, and bribery, the case is always held up or shelved.

...or a precocious child, it was no problem to pick up the elements of Farsi, Punjabi and Sanskrit literature. So keen was he on the study of epics of the past t ...niously once a year from the palace to the Gurdwara in Nahan to remind the people of a fruitful friendship. It is during his stay at Paonta that the Guru wro

In 1925, the renowned Punjabi historian, reformer, and poet Bhai Vir Singh published Sri Kalgidhar Chamat ...he went to Joshimath and Pandukeshwar where he made inquiries of the local people about holy places in the vicinity. It was they who said that the lake known

...teen thousand lines is written in blank verse, tried for the first time in Punjabi. With all its protracted search and pang, it is ultimately a poem of comple The backdrop of the story is the eighteenth century when the Sikh people were facing oppression and persecution. The plot turns on Ram Raj Kaur's he

'''Bhai Kahn Singh''' ([[Punjabi]] ਭਾਈ ਕਾਨ੝ਹ ਸਿਂਘ ਨਾਭਾ ), of [[Nabha]] ([[30 ...When he was 20 years old he wanted to study [[Persian]]. Learning of this, people urged his father, Baba Narayan Singh to not let his son study Persian. Neve

...Singh]] Ji. His poetry, all in Persian except for Joti Bikas, which is in Punjabi, forms part of the approved Sikh canon and can be recited along with script ...uru Gobind Singh is the seeker of God and is likeable and desirable of the people. (113)

...te, in French is Turbant, in English is Turban, in Dutch is Tulband and in Punjabi is Dastaar or Pag. Europe knew Turban even prior to 15th century. An oil pa ...British Indian Army in France. It marks the French gratitude of the French people who built it on their soil. For the ceremony, special units including Sikhs