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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. A British officer, Ensign J. Brasyer, was lent to Sir Henry Laurence, Civil Commissio
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• Sher Singh Attariwalla
  ...the second Anglo-Sikh war. After defeat in the second Anglo-Sikh war, the British forced him into exile, out of Punjab, fearing such powerful leader could re
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• INA
  ...ely this ended with the Sikhs fighting against Sikhs in the British Indian Army.
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• Chattar Singh Attariwalla
  ...r Singh Attariwalla who with his army gave devastating blow to the British Army at Chillianwalah.
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• Raja Pahar Singh
  ...the disaster that stared it in the face. His services were rewarded by the British with the title of Raja in April 1846 and grant of territory seized from Na
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• Subedar
  ...he Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army) to make it easier for British officers to communicate with native troops. It was thus essential for subed ...rank was the highest a non-European Indian could achieve in the armies of British India.
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• Jathedar Baba Hanuman Singh
  ...ged to escape unhurt and reached Ghudam and fought another battle with the British. In the battle of Kumbada (Suhana) he was executed along with 500 other Sik
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• John Holmes
  ...t for two years (183536). John Holmcs had simultaneously been acting as a British spy and supplying secret information to the Ludhiana Political Agency. Af ...AngloSikh war, he was, as a reward for his services, retained in the Sikh army when most of the other European officers were given their discharge. He was
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• Fauj I Khas
  The Fauj-i-Khas was a brigade of the army of Punjab in the time before the First Anglo-Sikh War. ...gh who started to hire European officers to train and command parts of his army. The Fauj-i-Khas was a model brigade trained and equipped after European mo
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• Henry Charles Van Cortlandt
  ...governor of Dera Ismail Khan. In 1846, General Cortlandt accompanied the British, with the Sikh force under his command, to Kashmir to quell the revolt in nexation of the Punjab, he was transferred to the British service as a civilian. He was made a Companion of the Bath for his services
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• Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith
  ...he Sutlej at Phillaur, seriously threatening Ludhiana and intersecting the British line of communication. ...va at 'Alival. Soon afterwards, Harry Smith's division joined Lord Gough's army and on 10 February took part in the [[Battle of Sabhraon]]. Later Sir Harry
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• Sikhs serve langar to soldiers
  ...Making curry1m.jpg|thumb|250px|right|{{c|Members of the Sikh community and army chefs prepare the huge curry}}]] '''[http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Spicing-up-Army-lunches.4379585.jp Spicing up Army lunches]'''
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• Firozpur Cantonment
  ...British Indian Army. Today, it is a Divisional headquarter for the Indian Army. ...rtition the cantt's importance declined. There is an abandoned airstrip of British Vintage in the Cantt. The Battle of Saragarhi Gurudwara is a part of the Ca
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• Havildar
  ...an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army. ...y or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army.
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• Dafadar
  ...y or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army. ...an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army.
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• Chanan Singh Dhillon
  ...e example is when with the help of some of his fellow prisoners; Canadian, British and Australians they managed to tunnel out of Odine POW camp, near Naples ...nt, African and Caribbean origin who fought in WWII for the allies and the British. This campaign was realised by the building of a large memorial in London (
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• Harbans Singh Jaswal
  ...r, C.I.E., D.S.O., M.D., LL.D., D.P.H., I.M.S., among other British Indian Army Medical Service and I.M.S. officers.
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• Henry Fane
  ==Sikh Kingdom honors British guests== ...troops before Sir Henry for a grand review and inspected the contingent of British lancers and horse artillery, which had accompanied the commander-in-chief t
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• Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert
  ...s services in his despatches. Gilbert also commanded a division of Gough's army in the second AngloSikh war, in the battles of Cheliarivala (13 January 184
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• Bishan Singh, adopted son of Jamadar Khushal Singh
  ...ishan Singh was ordered to move his troops to assist Herbert Edwardes, the British resident's assistant at Bannu, who was then marching against Diwan Mul Raj ...d joined Lord Gough's camp. For this he was rewarded with a pension by the British government.
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• Sir John Hunter Littler
  ...d 35 guns at Firozpur, when, in December 1845, two divisions of the Sikh army under Tej Singh laid siege to it. Although Firozpur lay isolated and vuln ...en and guns and, three days later, effectingjunction with the main British army under Lord Gough, his troops took part in the battle ofFcrozeshah (21 Decem
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• Hurbon
  ...Anglo Sikh war. As the hostilities ended, he was deported to Europe by the British in July 1846.
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• Jasvant Rao Holkar
  ...ler secured the greater part of the territory which had been scixed by the British.
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• Sikhs and the British
  <!----------The relationship between the Sikhs and the British goes back to the late 1700s. During ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company.
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• Battle of Ramnagar
  ...1848 between British and Sikh forces during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. The British were led by Sir Hugh Gough, while the Sikhs were led by Sher Singh Attariwa ...he Punjab, using the Sikh army, the Khalsa to maintain order and implement British policy. There was much unrest over this arrangement and the other galling t
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• Boyle
  ...fantry, joined the Khalsa army in 1843. He was killed fighting against the British in the first AngIo-Sikh war (1845-46).
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• Buddh Singh Man
  ...Later, he was promoted a colonel in General Court's brigade. According to British records, he commanded four regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, ...d in the service of the Lahore Darbar after the reorganization of the Sikh army under the treaty of
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• Battle of Mudki
  ...art of the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. The British army won an untidy encounter battle, suffering heavy casualties. ...ictories they sought protection from the British. It was a policy that the British had used well to spread their control of India, a policy called divide and
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• 32nd Sikh Pioneers
  The 32nd Sikh Pioneers were a regiment of the Indian Army during British rule. The regiment was founded in 1857 as the Punjab Sappers (Pioneers). Af
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• Sir Edward Joseph Thackwell
  ...aign of 183839. He also commanded the cavalry division of Sir Hugh Gough's army in the campaign against the Marathas of Gwalior at the close of 1843. In t ...he field like lightning and their Khalsa warcries so frightened the entire British cavalry brigade as if they had seen a ghost. They fled, galloping their own
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• India Secret Poceedings
  ...from Lahore (1839); despatches of Wade, Clerk, Mackeson and other British functionaries dealing with ...at Lahore, AngloSikh relations, the SikhAfghan boundaries, passage of the British troops and convoys through the heart of the Punjab and the Punjab Intellige
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• Battle of Ferozeshah
  ...s a traitor, have pressed his attack, he would have certainly defeated the British ...ts own ambitions for plunder and glory into crossing the Sutlej River into British territory.
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• Punjab Regiment (India)
  ...ent of India was formed from the 2nd Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army in 1947 ...ed Pakistan army, while the 2nd Punjab Regiment was retained in the Indian Army. There were transfers of troops between the regiments and other regiments t
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• George Thomas
  ...a band of mountain robbers in south India and then took up service in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad as a gunner, but soon afterwards came to Delhi ...desh. Serving under her for six years, Thomas left her to join the Maratha army under Appa Khande Rao, He raised troops for the Marathas and instructed the
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• Sikh Power in the Punjab
  ...s, was compiled by Henry Thoby Prinsep (1793-1878), a civil servant of the British East India Company, who later rose to be a member of the Legislative Counci ...British Governor General, Lord William Bentinck, in October 1831, and the British treaties with the Amirs of Sindh in April, 1832.
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• Sikh population
  ...ns were well represented in those who were transported from the Punjab to British [[East Africa]] to help in the building of strategic railways built to prov
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• Diwan Hakim Rai
  ...ond AngloSikh war, Diwan Hakim Rai sided with the rebel forces against the British. Consequently, all his estates were confiscated after the annexation of the
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• Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew
  ...who had resigned. He was accompanied by Lt William Anderson, of the Bengal army, the new governor designate Kahn Singh, and an escort of Sikh troops from L ...clamations in the name of Mul Raj, inviting the people to rise against the British. The same day, the Sikh escort from Lahore rebelled. Kahn Singh made terms
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• DIWAN AJUDHIA PARSHAD
  ...ain ABBOTT to demarcating the boundary between Kashmir and the Punjab. The British government granted him an annual pension of 7, 500 rupees. From April 1849
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• Patrick Agnew
  ...clamations in the name of Mul Raj, inviting the people to rise against the British. The same day, the Sikh escort from LAHORE rebelled. Kahn SINGH made terms 1. Bal, S. S., British Policy Towards the Panjab, 1844-49. Calcutta, 1971
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• Josiah Harlan
  ...against his enemies. He also volunteered to keep supplying news about the British as well as about the Afghans. Maharaja Ranjit Singh appointed him governor, ...ost Muhammad fled to the mountains, and Harlan quickly shifted over to the British. Thereafter, he left Afghanistan for India from where he proceeded to Phila
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• Mohan Singh
  ...for his part in the Indian National Army for the liberation of India from British rule, in which he held the rank of a general. He was born the only son of T ...ra Dun, he received his commission in 1934, and was posted for a year to a British unit, the 2nd Border Regiment, and then to 1st Battalion of his former 14th
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• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
  ...rom Germany to the Far-Eastern front in June 1943 that the Indian National Army was revived and Mohan Singh reinstated to his former command with Subhas as ...e during 1945. General Mohan Singh and his comrades of the Indian National Army were everywhere acclaimed for their patriotism. Mohan Singh's dream of libe
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• Battle of Aliwal
  ...y Sir Harry Smith, while the Sikhs were led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia. The British won a victory which is sometimes regarded as the turning point of the First ...f the Sikh kingdom, was goaded into crossing the Sutlej River and invading British territory, under leaders who were distrustful of their own troops.
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• Waqia - e - Jung - e - sikhan
  ...ther regular and irregular troops. On 18 December, it was learned that the British Governor General was advancing with large reinforcements by way of Mudki to ...reply the British sent over shells of various kinds. When night fell, the British troops still held their ground. The Sikhs retired from the field abandoning
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• Canada
  ...da were already loyal subjects of the British Empire, having served in the army and often having come from India or one of Britain's African colonies.
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• Sawan Mal
  ...with Hari Singh Nalwa, he was one of the top commanders in Ranjit Singh's army. As a general under Ranjit Singh, he wrested the 'subah'(province) of Multa ...in the process. He was a general and the Jagirdar of Mithankot during the British Raj. His progeny are supposed to have been cursed by a Hindu goddess. They
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• Sardar Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...ttariwala]] and General Ratan Singh Mann followed separetely the main Sikh army under Ranjodh Singh. The fortress was reduced and Gulab Singh was obliged t ...the first Anglo-Sikh war Ranjodh Singh commanded a division of the Khalsa army with 70 guns. He entered the Jalandhar Doab, and having joined his forces w
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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. A British officer, Ensign J. Brasyer, was lent to Sir Henry Laurence, Civil Commissio
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• Ajit Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...nvalia chief to escape retribution was Atar Singh who fled from Una to the British territory.
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• Jacob Thomas
  ...omposed of Punjabi Muslims. In 1843, he was removed from service by the army panchayats (a group of five Sikhs) who controlled Sikh units after the deat ...ractised in the villages of India, was one of the things that alarmed the British after their 'ally's', by treaty, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death, as he had a
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• Mayya Singh
  ...Bhai Maharaj Singh (d. 1856), leader of the popular revolt against the British. ...the night of 28-29 December 1849. He, however, fell into the hands of the British soon afterwards.
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• Battle of Chillianwala
  ...may be considered a draw, it was a strategic check to Britain, and damaged British prestige in India. ...ulraj and Sher Singh had no aims in common. Sher Singh decided to move his army north, to join that of his father, General Chattar Singh Attariwalla, who h
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• Milkha Singh Thehpuria
  ...tish military garrison in India. Today the city is the Headquarters of the Army of Pakistan.
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• SIR JAMES ABBOTT
  ...from Abbott's point of view of Chatar Singh Atarivala's revolt against the British at Hazara and at Lahore. James Abbott who retired as a general died on 6 Oc
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• General Harsukh Rai
  ...h governor of the province, Diwan Savan Mall, but he soon returned to the army. In 1836, he secured a ranked position in the Sikh court which he held unti ...sed into the hands of Raja Lal Singh who appointed him aa a general in the army.
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• Raja Tej Singh
  ...ons of the regular Sikh army. In 1839, he was sent to Peshawar with other army generals to help Colonel Wade's contingent to force the Khaibar Pass for an ...s army on the morning of 22 December and drove straight into the shattered British cavalry lines. But suddenly his guns ceased to fire. He abandoned the field
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• Sir Hugh Gough
  ...he Duke of Wellington. He came to India in 1837, and, after serving in the army in various capacities, became the CommanderinChief in 1843. ...vestment ofMultan and Frederick Currie's acquiescence in the movement of a British column to support him incensed Dalhousie. Lord Gough's refusal to dismiss G
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• SIKHS AND THE SIKH WARS : THE RISE, CONQUEST, AND ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB STATE
  ...AngloSikh wars of 184546 and 184849. Few accounts of these wars written by British historians and men of letters in the nineteenth century are as unbiased as ...hey conclude that defeat of the Sikhs was not enough. The interests of the British empire required that they be subjugated and the Sikh dynasty,destroyed.
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• Himmat Singh Jallevalia
  ...r at the negotiations which led to the cis-Sutlej chiefs being taken under British protection in 1809. In 1812, he was induced by [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] to ...heirs subject to them providing of 180 horsemen for the Maharaja's Khalsa Army.
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• Pre-Independence : Sikhs Contribution to Freedom & Promises Made
  ...khs played a pioneering role in India's struggle for independence from the British. They made sacrifices wholly out of proportion to their demographic strengt Out of 2125 Indians killed in the atrocities by the British, 1550 (73%) were Sikhs.
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• FRANCIS JOHN CANORA
  ...t of the extraordinary behaviour of Captain James Abbott, assistant to the British resident at Lahore, who had defied the governor`s authority by raising Musl
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• Karamjeet Singh Judge
  ...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...s old, and a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he
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• Lance Naik Karham Singh (P.V.C.)
  ...f China and a threatened invasion of India via Burma, he enlisted into the Army as number 22356 of First Sikh regiment as Sepoy on 15 September 1941. ...Army. He is the only Indian soldier to win the highest medals of both the British and Indian governments. With the award of the VC he was promoted from Sepoy
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• Akbar Khan Muhammad
  ...suffered. The massacre caused an outrage in London. The next year a larger army was sent to exact retribution.
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• Akali Baba Hanuman Singh
  ...the treacherous Dogra’s sold out the Lahore Darbar to the British, and the British were planning on annexing the Punjab. ...Amritsar and approached Jathedar Hanuman Singh for assistance against the British.
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• Pakistan
  ...Asia that was formed on 14 August 1947 from the previous country known as "British India". Pakistan borders [[India]], Iran, Afghanistan, China and the Arabia ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer
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• Broughtton Papers
  ...oughton) in numerous bound volumes in the British Library. Lord Broughton, British administrator, who served as President of the Board of Control of the East ...e in 183638, which led to the signing of the Tripartite treaty between the British government, Shah Shuja' and Ranjit Singh in 1838.
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• Majitha
  ...om this region. These were several generals in [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh's]] army of the Sikh Empire in the first half of the 19th century. ...undar Singh Majithia) had great impact on the affairs of Punjab during the British rule through the latter 1800s and the first half of the 20th century.
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• Ram Singh Chappewala
  ...February 1849). He fell in the lastnamed battle. His^agirwas seized by the British upon the occupation of the Punjab.
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• General Harsa Singh
  ...he side of Diwan Mul Raj at Multan. He was deprived of his jdgirs by the British after the Punjab was annexed in 1849. During the uprising of 1857, he enli
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• Sir Claude Martine Wade
  ...and Holkar, and the Pindaris (1815-19) and officiated as brigade major to British troops in Oudh (1820-21). In February 1823, he was appointed assistant at Martine Wade was one of the few British functionaries on the Sutlej who by their tact and amiable disposition had w
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• Battle of Gujarat
  ...d by lack of supplies, was defeated by the Bengal and Bombay Armies of the British East India Company. After it capitulated a few days later, the Punjab was a ...he Durbar (court) in Lahore and Agents in several of the regions. The Sikh Army, the Khalsa, was kept in being and used to keep order in the Punjab and Nor
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• General Mohan Singh Deb
  ...st famous for his role in organising and leading the First Indian National Army in South East Asia during World War II. Following Indian independence, Moha ...hra Dun, he received his commission in 1934 and was posted for a year to a British unit, the 2nd Border Regiment, and then to 1st Battalion of his former 14th
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• Jay singh-sohal
  Jay (or Jagjeet) Singh-Sohal is a British television journalist, filmmaker and writer. Jay also serves his country as a reservist in the British Territorial Army.
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• Claude Auguste Court
  ...in British territory, and, ultimately securing his discharge from the Sikh army, proceeded with his PUNJABI wife and the children to France in 1844. He pur
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• Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...gh Atarivala and General Ratan Singh Man followed separately the main Sikh army under Ranjodh Singh. The fortress was reduced and Gulab Singh obliged to su ...n the first AngloSikh war Ranjodh Singh commanded a division of the Khalsa army with 70 guns. He entered theJalandhar
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• Amir ul Imla
  ...127 folios and 247 letters and is preserved in the Oriental section of the British Library, London. ...prepared by Amir Chand. However, no other copy, except a photostat of the British Museum manuscript secured by Dr. Ganda Singh for his personal use, is known
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• Darshan Singh Pheruman
  ...in 1912 the Indian army as a sepoy. Two years later, he resigned from the army and set up as a contractor at Hissar. He was doing well as a contractor, wh ...onth term in jail. In 1926, he visited Malaya where he was detained by the British on the basis of his political record in India. While in jail, he went on a
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• George Broadfoot
  ...e incited the Muslim population to rise and rescue him and requisitioned a British brigade from Jalalabad to save him from what he called the violent intentio ...nd expelled both Lieutenant Cunningham and his assistant sent there by the British agent.
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• Ishar Singh CV
  ...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Ishar Singh was 25 years old, and a Sepoy in the 28th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Waziristan Campaign, India when the following deed took place fo
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• Hitler on Sikhism
  ...o fought alongside Hitler's generals. Below a sketch of a Sikh in the Nazi Army, talking about Asians participating in the war on the side of the Axis. [[Image:Sikh in German Army.jpg|thumb|Sikh in German Army|link=Special:FilePath/Sikh in German_Army.jpg]]
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• Javand Singh Mokal
  ...er, Thakur Singh, held a minor command. Javand Singh joined the Sikh army as a trooper. He was placed under Diwan Muhkam Chand and took pan in the ...ingh, fought in the second AngloSikh war. His jdgir was confiscated by the British.
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• William Sampson Whish
  ...William Sampson Whish''' (1787-1853), divisional commander of the British army under Lord Hugh Gough in the second Anglo-Sikh war, was born at Northwold, ...lery. In January 1848, he took over from Sir John Littler the command of British troops stationed at Lahore. In August 1848, he was given the command of the
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• Nand Singh VC
  ...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 29 years old, and an Acting Naik in the 1/11th, Sikh Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he
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• Gian Singh, Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  ...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 24 years old, and a Naik in the 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he
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• Parkash Singh
  ...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 29 years old, and a Havildar in the 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he
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• Lahore Councils of Regency
  ...rule was shortlived, as he and his deputy Pandit Jalla were killed by the Army on 21 December 1844. ...his Council represented a combination of elder statesmen of the Darbar and army generals. Maharani Jind Kaur acted with determination and courage in transa
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• Sajjan Singh Rangroot
  ...h Rangroot was a real-life Indian soldier who served in the British Indian Army during World War I. He was known for his bravery and leadership during the ...cal strength and courage. During World War I, he joined the British Indian Army and served as a soldier in the 15th Sikh Regiment. “Recruit” of English
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• Rattray Sikhs
  ...d Wars and even today remain a front line infantry battalion of the Indian Army. ...he match or whether his opponents did so just to have the chance to best a British Officer, such was the Sikhs love of wrestling.
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• CHET SINGH BAJVA
  ...sh protection. Forged letters supposed to have been written by them to the British were produced in support of their contention. Nau Nihal Singh, determined t
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• Lal Singh Moranvala
  ...bad, joined Raja Sher Singh along with his troops and fought against the British. He took part in the battles of Ramnagar (22 November 1848), Cheliarivala (
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• Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  ...Lahore and, after the treaty of Bharoval tlie same year, he became the British resident there. He served as chairman of the Board of Administration afte ...ought to pacify the common mass of the disbanded soldiery and attach it to British interests. He reduced tensions in the frontier districts by pacification an
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• Gobindgarh fort handed over
  '''[http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/12871/38/ Army to handover Gobindgarh Fort, Amritsar, to Civil admin]''' ...s a magnificent historical moment in the history of the Holy City when the Army would hand over Fort Gobindgarh to the civil administration.
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• Matthew William Ford
  ...ops. He came to [[Lahore]] towards the end of the year and joined the Sikh army as a battalion commander on Rs 800 per month, later commuted for [[jagir]]
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• Sikhs around 1900
  ...ir unusual way of life. During this period, many books were written by the British about Sikhs, their culture, religion and history. This articles is about th ...soldiers of the many races and classes who so well represented the Indian Army. Our home people were able to see the quality of the men who compose it, wh
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• General Reginald Dyer
  ...he summer capital of Punjab before Shimla became the summer capital of the British Raj. He attended Midleton College, Co. Cork. Ireland between 1875 and 1881. His next posting was to the Indian Army, joining the Bengal Staff Corps as a Lieutenant in 1887. Soon he was back s
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• Dhilwan Kalan
  ...and asked the Nawab Kapura Brar for his fort to fight the pursuing Mughal Army. Nawab fearing retribution refused the fort to the Guru. After refusal from ...as rewarded with additional area under his control of Faridkot Ryast after British capture of Sikh Kingdom of Maharaja [[Ranjit Singh]]. Raja Harinder Singh B
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• Narain Singh
  ...ace a plan was made to abduct the young Maharaja Duleep Singh before the British removed him from the Punjab. Narain Singh provided finanace for the party
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• Joseph Davey Cuningham
  ...r) Claude Wade, the political agent at Ludhiana and officerincharge of British relations with the Punjab and with the chiefs of Afghanistan. For the nex ...tinuing to add to the distrust of the Sikh army from feeling suspicious of British intentions, in which situation the war was an inevitability.
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• Bhai Ram Singh
  ...r the influence of a self-styled Guru Balak Singh and decided to leave the army. His Group saw many of the pratices of the Maharaja, his Darbar (Court) and ...i Ram Singh had a small revolt of his own in mind, indirectly aimed at the British his efforts were meant to return the Sikhs to, what he and his master [[Bal
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