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...the Air Force in January, 2002 (the highest rank ever given in the history of the Indian Air force).

...ed to Sikhism, during the late 1500s. Gurcharan Singh Virk joined the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh as a trooper in 1833 and served the Sikh State up to ...having visited Kabul several times. He possessed a strong physique capable of undertaking long and arduous journeys.

...espouse Kuka or [[Namdhari]] patriotism and reform during the latter part of the nineteenth century. ...his property and, accompanied by his two daughters, took to the preaching of Kuka tenets.

...ol the administration of the State of Lahore with a new council of regency of eight members. ...as to terminate on 4 September 1854 when the Maharaja would attain the age of sixteen.

...into existence in 1904 as Lyallpur District. Prior to that it was a Tehsil of Jhang District. ...ea was located between [[river Ravi]] and [[River Chenab]] and formed part of Rachna Doab.

...irect the publication of the subjoined letter from the Adjutant-General in India, submitting despatches from Major-General A. G. Yeatman-Biggs, C.B., Comman ...his appreciation of the conduct of these operations, and of the behaviour of the troops engaged.

...5 – 24 September 1856) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India. ...]]'s division to advance.<ref name=odnb/> He was wounded again at [[Battle of Vitoria]] in 1813.<ref name=odnb/>

...rge Cross was awarded in four classes and only for extreme bravery in face of the enemy."'' World War I: Encyclopedia, pp 768, Spencer Tucker, Priscilla == Award of the Indian Order of Merit: Lieutenant-Governor's Citation ==

...itical Agency. As Resident at Delhi, he implemented the broad principles of Lord Wellesley's earlier policy towards [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and the ...luence in the cisSutlej region. The Report enunciated the broad principles of paramountcy and protection offered to protected chiefs.

...Wazir Khan. The 328-ft tower is dedicated to establishing the Sikh rule in India in 1711.

...Jhang district, now in [[Pakistan]]. Little is known about the early life of Kaura Mall. ...defeated, captured and executed. Zakariya Khan appointed Kaura Mall diwan of Multan.

|populated_states=[[Punjab (India)]] ...stern India. They are named after Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who was the leader of the Ramgarhia Misl.

...h roots going back to the earlier languages of Persia, India and the land of the five rivers. ...litical unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan'', the word miri is defined as “…a type of feudal system”.

...lsa College ([[Amritsar]]) and in the Punjab Historical Studies Department of Punjabi University ([[Patiala]]). ...storical information it contains appears to be based on personal knowledge of the author and is on the whole correct and useful.

...nment College Chandigarh, where he was a ''Gold Medalist'' in the subject of History. ...ad the peaceful struggle in [[Punjab]] to achieve a “buffer state” between India and Pakistan.

|populated_states=[[Punjab (India)]] ...stern India. They are named after Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who was the leader of the Ramgarhia Misl. The Sub Caste Lohar, also related to Vishwakarma God

...and entreated that he be appointed governor of the Punjab for a tribute of 5, 00, 000 rupees annually which proposition was not acceptable to the Shah ...st Nizam ud'Din under Fateh Singh Kalianvala, who laid siege to the town of Kasur.

.... But today, Ramgarhia is associated mainly with the Tarkhan tribe because of its later famous Misldhar, [[Jassa Singh Ramgarhia]], who was a [[Tarkhan]] ...khs, today are pure Amritdhari, all the families are Amritdhari, about 99% of the Ramgarhia Sikhs, are Keshadhari, they do not cut their hair while 1% Ra

...ut five years later he returned to the Guru's court, entering the service of Sat [[Guru Gobind Rai]]. Gangu was blessed with a son he named Raj Kaul who ===Gangu's role in arrest of Mata Gujri and her grandsons===

...the Lok Sabha for the first time. He currently also serves as the chairman of the Punjab Urdu Academy. ...e, Preneet Kaur, served as an MP and was Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014.

...ated at Hyderabad, Guntur district in the state of [[Andhra Pradesh]] in [[India]]. ...of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877.

...r was the passage these early settlers used to come to Golden. Main source of employment for them was Columbia River Lumber Mill. ...ctoria's Golden Jubilee in the UK went through Canada on their way back to India. These Sikhs were told that Canada's farm land is just like in Punjab and e

...671 to 1675. He was a harsh man and was forcible converting many thousands of non-Muslims to Islam. ...u masses, Guru replied "Such activities can only be stopped by a sacrifice of a great person".

...und: transparent; font-size: 1em;text-align:center " | 30th Chief Minister of Punjab<br> | [[Chandigarh]] Capital of Haryana and also Punjab.

...unjab. The Sikhs were completely defeated, making this the decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War. ...ing the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company, led to the Khalsa invading British territory.

...nd his men died fighting to a man. This was sometime during the first half of January 1752. 4. Teja Singh and Ganda Singh, A Short History of the Sikhs. Bombay, 1950

...g|thumb|400px|right|Scene of the Jallianwala massacre in 1919 in Amritsar, India]] ...halsa]] ([[Vaisakhi]] day). 1300 Punjabi's were assembled in the Bagh, out of 1300, 799 Sikhs attained martyrdom, while the remaining 501 were either Hin

...The college's foundation stone was laid in 1892, it has since become one of the eminent [[Sikhism|Sikh]] educational institutions. ...l]] force of 7,000 troops mounted a surprise attack on Amritsar. A force of 700 [[Sikhs]] defeated the much larger Mughal army.

...to the south, [[Pakistan]] to the north and west and the People's Republic of China to the north-east and east. ...stitute 66% of the population in Jammu), [[Buddhist]]s (who constitute 50% of the population in Ladhakh), and [[Sikh]]s.

...:कशढ़मीरी पणढ़डित / ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰੀ ਪੰਡਿਤ ) refers to a person who belongs to a sect of [[Hindu]] [[Brahmin]]s originating from [[Kashmir]], a mountainous region i ==Kashmiri Pandits & The Great Sacrifice of Guru Teg Bahadur==

...s still available as a short road nearby. It houses the samadh (tombstone) of Bhai Maharaj Singh Ji, the Sikh freedom fighter, after it was brought to th ...Singapore that any prayer would be granted through the divine intervention of Bhai Maharaj. It was only after his tomb was kept in this Gurdwara that it

...reached the zenith of their power, the Sikhs, caught in the pincer grip of [[Mughal]] and [[Afghan]] persecutors, were still struggling for survival. ...lready being paid by the day, demanded a share proportionate to the number of troops.

...e along with her groom and the marriage party, left to head to the village of her in-laws. ...and begged them to let her go with her groom. The dacoits dragged her out of the palanquin and presented her to their chief. He said, “Detain her for

...also replaced by Pundit Bhajan Lal of Farukhabad. Bhajan Lal was a product of American Mission School and he used to recite Bible to young Duleep Singh. ...o Christianity. It is interesting to note that even despite the conversion of Duleep Singh to Christianity his hair were not shorn for full one year and

...lso fought in [[Kashmir]] in 1819. He led Sikh forces against Sayyid Ahmad of Bareilly who had during the years 1826-31 carried on in the trans-Indus reg ...t day Mehraj village, In present day Bathinda District of the Malva region of Punjab.

...was as weak as that of the Delhi Emperor. There was hardly any collection of state revenues. The soldiers had not been paid for several years, which in ...f Iran In 1736, when the boy King died, Nadir assumed the title of Emperor of Iran.

[[File:Punjab map.jpg|thumb|300px|{{c|map showing location of Fatehgarh sahib}}]] ...district, one of the twenty districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India.

...paigns, notably like the campaign of Multan, campaign of Kashmir, Campaign of the frontier province. ...n of a immpressive ceremony and display. Both sides met on the either side of Satluj with their full forces. Sham Singh Attariwala was in the forefront e

|align=center| 1398 || Birth of Bhagat [[Kabir]] Ji. |align=center| 1469 || Birth of [[Guru Nanak Dev]]

...the Tiger Hunt) is situated in [[Machkund]], in Dhaulpur, [[Rajasthan]], [[India]]. This [[Gurdwara]] is connected to the sixth Guru, Shri [[Guru Hargobind] ...and stayed in Bhamtipura village. The head of that area informed Jahangir of a deadly lion stalking the local villagers and asked the Emperor to save th

...Lahore Darbar" is not used even in British records until after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. ...ard, Court, Avitabile and Ventura, the architects of the Europeanized wing of the Darbar's army were Christians.

...de of the border is [[Dera Baba Nanak]] [1Km. from Border] in the district of [[Gurdaspur]]. The shrine is located about 3 kms from the Indo-Pakistan bor ...h]]. Recently, there has been lobbying to open the corridor for Sikhs from India to visit the shrine without any hindrance or visa. It lies only 3km from th

...h Khan Najeebabadi, an Indian historian of Islam, wrote that they entered India thru Debal, Sindh with Muhammad Bin Qasim in 92 Hijri (711CE). He refered t ...eans that they could not be of Indian ancestary. This is more true because of the fact that even today '''Arains''' don't like to marry outside their cla

...Maharaja Ranjit Singh, there were several attempts to raise the old glory of the Khalsa. Several movements to reform Sikhism were started. First one be ..." because of their peculiar style they used in reciting Gurbani (Sayings of the Gurus). This style was in a high pitched voice, called Kook in punjabi,

...hmir.jpg|thumb|220px|Gulab Singh of Kashmir.<br><small>From the collection of the V&A Museum.</small>]] ...le the state, the second-largest principality under the British Raj, until India gained its independence in 1947.

For those of us who've been to Sree Darbaar Sahib Amritsar, we may have noticed a sign o ...ct. All the people described this supernatural scene as the wondrful doing of Sri Guru Ram Das himself" (translation based on one in Strange but True in

[[Image:Dr Manmohan Singh PM.jpg|thumb|Dr. Manmohan Singh, India's fourteenth Prime Minister |right]] ...er]] [[1932]]) is the 14th and current Prime Minister of the [[Republic of India]]. He is the first Indian Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return t

...erce persecution which overtook the Sikhs made the immediate reformation of a similar force impossible, yet the Sikh warriors in small groups continue ...(d. 1734), an elderly Sikh, acted on such occasions as the common leader of the entire congregation.

...belonged to the Saddozai section of the Popalzai clan of the Abdali tribe of Afghans. ...and quickly rose from the position of a personal attendant to the command of Nadir's Abdali contingent in which capacity he accompanied the Persian conq

...ru principality subsequently became part of the vast kingdom called Trigat of which Jalandhar was the capital. ...inated to it and included in what was called Sirhind sarkar of the [[Subah of Delhi]].