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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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• Sikh Military
  ...ervice. Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian Army, Sikhs have always been disproportionately represented martially. Identified by the British as a "martial race" and specifically targeted for recruitment due to the be
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• Raja Lal Singh
  ...were thus allowed to escape from there and form junction with Lord Cough's army at Ferozeshah. After the reverse at Ferozeshah, Lal Singh fled to Lahore an ..., to thwart the occupation by Gulab Singh of the valley granted him by the British under a treaty signed on 16 March 1846. Lal Singh was tried by a Court of I
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• Battle of Sobraon
  ...tween the forces of the British East India Company and the [[Khalsa]], the army of the [[Sikh]] kingdom of the Punjab. The Sikhs were completely defeated, ...provocations by the British East India Company, led to the Khalsa invading British territory.
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• Sikh Temple, Nanyuki
  ...Nanyuki is currently the main airbase of the Kenya Air Force. The British Army also keeps a base at The Nanyuki Show Ground (NSG) from where it conducts y
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• Umrao Singh Majithia
  ...amid all social glitter. He began to be looked upon with suspicion by the British and, in secret official correspondence, he was termed 'disaffected.' ...to Kabul. Their plan was to win over Afghanistan and march a German Afghan army into India. Mahendra Partap was in touch with Umrao Singh who was related t
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• Rawalpindi
  ...ern Command and Rawalpindi became the largest British military garrison in British India. ..., in Liaquat Garden. Today Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani Army and Air Force.
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• Badri Nath
  ...treasury were entrusted to Badri Nath's corps and he was granted Order of British India for his services in suppressing the rebellion. He retired from servic
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• Kashmiri Pandits at Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Darbar
  ...and Raja Dina Nath was made its President, with the active support of the British. ...er Kashmiri Pandit notables had succeeded in winning the confidence of the British conquerers, the latter meted out to them great encouragement, and made them
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• Himalayas
  ...mmu and Kashmir]] to Raja Gulab Singh (who behind the scenes had aided the British interests) who then took the title Maharaja.
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• COURT AND CAMP OF RANJEET SINGH
  ...f the Sikh army carries the suggestion that it was inferior to the British army, though superior to the forces of other princes of India. The book contains
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• The forgotten history of Sikh troops in China
  ...llion is well known. What isn’t is the crucial role played by troops from British India in lifting the siege, which eventually paved the way for the occupat ...the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 and the opening up of Chinese ports to the British.
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• Lords Henry and Charles Hardinge
  ..., 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India. ==Army career==
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• Francis
  ...Francis, who arrived at Lahore in 1833 and joined Maharaja Ranjit Singl's army. ...Vivek as Guran, the fortune teller utters, rather growls the word as some British Soldiers marched by.
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• July 5
  The British, who had been waiting for the right moment to intervene and establish their ...active providing personal inspiration and organizing supplies for the Sikh Army. Soon after the defeat at Gujrat, all the other Sikh chiefs had been captur
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• Siege of Multan
  ...nged contest between the city and state of Multan on the one hand, and the British East India Company on the other. It can be said to have lasted between Apri ...lraj. In that year, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out, and was won by the British East India Company. There was an uneasy peace for three years, during which
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• UMDAT UT-TWARIKH
  ...ingh and the AngloSikh wars, ending in the annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions.
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• Jean Baptiste Ventura
  ...ian born in Finale Emilia. Born to Jewish parents he served in Napoleon's army as a colonel of infantry and had taken part in the battle of Wagram (1809), ...for the Gurkhas in the Lahore army which style was later adopted by the British for their Gurkha troops.
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• Sikh Minhas Rajputs
  ...illages are mostly Jats because of the enforcement of new Land Laws by the British in the year 1920, the land revenue record even today stands in the name of The first Doaba Rajput to join the army of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] was [[Sangat Singh Minhas]] of Padhiana in the Jal
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• Lahina Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...to power. When Kanvar [[Nau Nihal Singh]] fell out with [[Col. Wade]], the British political agent at Ludhiana, Lahina Singh was deputed along with [[Faqir Az ...41, the Darbar intercepted a letter from Atar Singh Sandharivalia, then in British territory, to Lahina Singh and Kchar Singh Sandhanvalia, both of whom comma
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• The Sepoy Mutiny - 1857
  ..., children who were murdered by these mutineers, all over North India. The British reprisals were even more brutal and even included massive destruction of se ...ft the warriors were soon being asked to fill new regiments in the British army to keep the Afghans at bay.
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• Sant Karam Singh
  ...1849, Karam Singh joined the Corps of Guides which had been raised by the British in the cis-Sutlej territory in 1846 which was later reorganized as 5th (Gu ...pective of the fact whether they were actual rebels or even friends of the British. The General had issued an order to spare women and children, but it was ho
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• June 19
  ...llion among members of the British forces, thereby forcing the fall of the British empire and hasten their departure from India. ...called press conference at the residence of Bua Singh, SSP, Amritsar. The Army Generals and Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar were also present. However, imme
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• Sikhism in Burma
  ...es in my field of specialization. I always considered Myanmar as a part of British India that has cultural affinity with the Indian people. But to my surprise ...(Rangoon) University was among the top ten Indian Universities before the British divided India and declared Burma as an independent country. It has a sprawl
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• Akhbarat-I-Singhan
  ...l checked the record of the income from revenue and the expenditure on the army. Reports from Bannu and Kohat were presented and instructions by the Genera
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• Alexander Gardner
  ...:Andrew gardiner.gif|thumb|300px|left|Andrew Gardner, served in the Khalsa Army]] ...f him during the service to Singh, surrounded by other members of the Sikh army.
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• Maharaja Karak Singh
  ...annas in every rupee of state revenue and, worse of all, disband the Sikh army. To fan their fire the Dogras had letters forged with their interception be ...cently crossed the Sutlej, fearing for their own lives, and returning with British help to regain his rightful throne.
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• Balvant Singh Canadian
  ...came a devout Sikh. He was promoted a lance naik, but he resigned from the army in 1905. In April 1906, he migrated to Canada. He played a leading part in ...s of British Columbia, over 90 per cent of whom were Sikhs, to Honduras, a British colony in the tropical Central America. Bhai Balvant Singh visited the Unit
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• Kotkapura
  ...ne Di Dhaab; now a historic town) between Guru Gobind Singh and the Mughal army would have been fought at Kotkapura. However, Nawab refused the fort to the ...given [[Faridkot]], which later became known as Faridkot Ryast during the British Raj. Nawab Kapura’s state was captured in 1803 by [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh
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• Master Mota Singh
  ...her, Sahib singh was a soldier in the Sikh Army and had fought against the British. After passing the matriculation examination, Mota Singh trained as a junio ...e a huge gathering at Shahi Masjid, Lahore, on 11 April 1919 offended the British authorities and he was imprisoned under the Martial law regulations. In the
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• Bhai Labh Singh Rajasansi
  ...aja Singh was a soldier in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army. In 1849 when the British rule was in place then the Sikh Unit was abolished. ...gh was under court martial and then he was sacked from his position in the army.
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• Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna
  ...u German Conspiracy that sought to trigger rebellion in the British Indian Army. Sohan Singh, as one of the top Ghadar leaders, returned to India at the ou
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• Baldev Singh
  ...sh Comission had come out to India in the spring of 1942, on behalf of the British War Cabinet, with proposals for the country`s political future. In June 194 When a British Cabinet Mission visited India in 1946 to negotiate with Indian leaders abou
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• John Laird Mair Lawrence
  ...ation. John Lawrence also disbanded and dispersed the 92,000 strong Khalsa army. Its artillery was dismantled and carted away to Calcutta, and its ghorchar ...control over all departments allowed him to establish firmly the roots of British power in the Punjab. He divided the province into seven districts, pacified
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• Sialkot
  ...a, Huns, Kushan, Pali, Jatts, Hindu Shahi, Rajputs, Afghan, Turk, Sikh and British rule to that of present-day federation of [[Pakistan]]. ...ned army, Sikh rules of discipline, their modern European weaponry, modern British maps and the presence of ex-European mercernaries in the Sikh armed forces.
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• Travels in Kashmir and the Punjab
  ...rime (p. 317). Hugel has reproduced Murray's statistics of the revenue and army of the Sikh kingdom ; revenue 2,68,09,500 rupees ; army 80,000 men including the French legion of 8,000 trained in European discipl
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• Baba Gurdit Singh
  ...[[Anglo-Sikh Wars]] and he declined the British offer of a jagir after the British annexation of the Punjab Sikh Kingdom in 1849. ...Government of Canada meant to prevent Indian citizens who were sons of the British Empire from immigrating to Canada. The hardships faced by its passengers du
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• Joseph Davey Cunningham
  ...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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• Highly Distinguished Sikhs (Modern Era)
  * [[General Joginder Jaswant Singh]] - the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army. ...s, fighting in disproportionately large numbers, approximately 10 fold in British Colonial units, in both World War I and World War II for the allies in the
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• Sardar
  ...gious affiliation of the official so entitled. In the army, both under the British and in free India, junior commissioned officers called Viceroy’s Commissi
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• Sardar Rai Singh
  ...re going." Hearing this, the Governer said to Commander Nur Din, "Take the army to Meerankot immediately and bring Mehtab Singh here. If he is not there br ...49, were made the Sikh Sardars, of some villages, and given Jagirs, by the British.
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• Atar Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...t the Dogra minister, Dhian Singh, and went to Ludhiana to find in the British territory a possible substitute for the Wazir. When both Kharak Singh and ...favour of Rani Chand Kaur, and wrote letters to the officers of the Khalsa army inciting them to rise against their sovereign.
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• Dalip Singh
  ...e Patiala army in 1924. For his services, he was awarded M.B.E ( Medal for British Empire).
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• India Gate
  ...o commemorate the 90,000 Indian soldiers, of the erstwhile British Indian Army, who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars. Designed by Edwin Lutyens and Following India's independence, India Gate became the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, known as the ''' ''Amar Jawan Jyoti'' ''' (I
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• Diwan Bhavani Das
  ...re kingdom. Twice, in 1816 and 1817, he commanded a division of the Lahore army in the Multan expeditions. He also took part in the expeditions to Peshawar
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• Lions of the Great Wars
  With the outbreak of war in Europe, [[India]], the Crown Jewel of the British Empire, joined the Triple Entente (Allied) Powers in battle on the 4th of A ...f these troops, the [[Sikh]]s, one of the two loyal 'martial races' of the British Raj, rallied in enormous numbers for the King, Empire in the battle against
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• Prem Pal Singh
  ...Air Force on the ground. Led by Wing Commander Prem Pal Singh himself, Pak army camp east of Gujarat and airfields at Chaklala, Dab, Murid, Akwal, Risalwal The squadron gave close support to the army in Kasur, Khem Karan, Pasrur, Chawinda and Sialkot sectors. Bombs were drop
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• Sir David Ochterlony
  ...adet. He served under Lord Lake in the battle of Delhi and was appointed British resident in 1803 at the court of [[Shah Alam II]], emperor of Hindustan.
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• When Romans met the Sikhs
  “Oh yes”, we said, “Of Course, we have a bigger army”, we said proudly. {{p3|File:Indian Army-Sikh Light Infantry regiment.jpeg|Sikh army in formation}}
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• Diwan Muhkam Chand
  '''Diwan Muhkam Chand'''(1750 - 29 October 1814), a renowned Sikh army general of the early years of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign, was born aroun ...commanderinchief of his army. He had a major role in organizing the Sikh army on a regular basis and in the early territorial conquests of the young Maha
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• Southall
  ...edly recruited to work in a local factory owned by a former British Indian Army officer. This South Asian population grew due to the closeness of expanding
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• Origins of non-violence movement in India
  ...the press, is best known as starting the non-violent movement to oust the British from India. Gandhi ji deserves a lot of praise because he did implement the ...this arrangement. It was a major factor in the first uprising against the British.
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• Sikh Confederacy
  ...ders). The records for these were kept at Amritsar and Lahore. As the Sikh Army (Dal Khalsa) grew new regions where administered and new Sikh barons came t ...ir territories, which was extended to distant quarters of India, after the British withdrew from India.
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• Imad Us Saadat
  ...'', a chronicle in Persian, composed at the instance of Col. John Baillie, British Resident at Lucknow, by Ghulam 'All Naqyi, of Rac Barcli, in 1808 containin ...for expenses for "Halva Karah" as oblation dedicated to Baba Nanak. Their army called Dal consisted of about 2 lakh sowars. Their blind fidelity to their
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• Sardar Lahina Singh
  ...of the three sons of Kahn Singh and Kishan Kaur. As he grew up, he joined army service under Ajit Singh Sandhanvalia. He married Chand Kaur, daughter of H ...o an annual revenue of 2,910 rupees. After the annexation of the Punjab to British dominions, the jagir was resumed by the government and pensions in cash wer
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• Bhai Maharaj Singh Nurangabad
  ...bar. Maharaj Singh, whose movements were restricted to Naurangabfid by the British, went underground. The government confiscated his properq at Amritsar and a ...tles of Chehanvala and Gujrat but, when Raja Sher Singh surrendered to the British at Rawalpindi on 14 March 1849, he resolved to carly on the fight single-ha
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• Symbol of faith
  ...lives, and 1,09,045 were wounded while fighting as part of British Indian Army. ...ccurred in 1897 when the regiment defended the Samana Ridge against a huge army of Pathans.}}
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• Kuka Gurcharan Singh
  ...nverted 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 ...the tyrannical British government had imprisoned him in Rangoon; that the British were afraid of losing the Punjab to the Kukas; that Russians would go to In
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• Akhbar Ludhiana
  ...urt intrigues, murders of princes and sardars and of the power of the Sikh army after the Maharaja's death, received prominent display. At times important
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• Punjab - Sikhs’ most precious gift to India
  ...ensions; Muslims feared being ruled by Hindus who formed the majority. The British on their part appeased both Hindus and Muslims by offering them separate st ...fence, commerce, and communications. These terms would be binding when the British transferred power to India.
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• Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh
  ...h expansion in India. He was the Sikh Akbar, the Sikh Napoleon. His Khalsa army included European Officers, Panjabi Muslims, Rajputs, Poorbias and even an
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• Thakur Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...time of his father's death. As he grew up, he was given appointment by the British as extraassistant commissioner for Amritsar district. He was also nominat ...e same year he received from [[Maharaja Duleep Singh]], living as a ranked British noble in London after being deprived of the throne of the Punjab, a wire in
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• Dhanna Singh Malwai
  ...nna Singh Malwai''' ( - died May 1843) a historic general of the Khalsa army under [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]. He was the son of Mal Singh a Man Jat whos ...d a grandson Kirpal Singh who fought with Shere Singh and later joined the British and was rewarded with a large territory once part of Ranjit Singhs empire.
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• Taraknath Das
  ...University there. His pro-Indian activity in Japan was objected to by the British Ambassador and fearing extradition, Das crossed over to Seattle, Washington ...paper, but there is no doubt that, such as it was, it was inimical to the British Government and prepared the ground for the serious trouble which arose late
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• Anglo Sikh War I
  ...sulting in the partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom, was the outcome of British expansionism and the near anarchical conditions that overtook the Lahore co ...promised them a good opportunity for direct intervention. Up to 1838, the British troops on the Sikh frontier had amounted to one regiment at Sabathu in the
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• Historic Nihangs
  ...e Company's forces, he must take Gulab Singh as a faithful follower of the British and watch his interests". (See, 'Twareekh Guru Khalsa' by Giani Gian Singh) Shiv Karpal Singh sided with the British in the Indian mutiny in 1857 AD assisting the Imperial Forces against the I
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• 1839 A.D - 1849 A.D. The turbulent years
  ...emicians being open to all Punjabis, whatever their creed or religion. The British were not allowed to open Christian schools although they were allowed to pr ...cast (his european doctor was put in charge of gunpowder production). The British knew well that his was the only power that could compete with them for the
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• Sikhism in Myanmar
  ...es in my field of specialization. I always considered Myanmar as a part of British India that has cultural affinity with the Indian people. But to my surprise ...(Rangoon) University was among the top ten Indian Universities before the British divided India and declared Burma as an independent country. It has a sprawl
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• Sikh Regiment
  ...the Indian Army and was at one stage the highest decorated regiment in the British Empire. ..."Khalsa Army". Following numerous heroic and valiant battles by the Khalsa Army, XIV Ferozepur (1 Sikh, now 4 Mechanised Infantry), and XV Ludhiana (2 Sikh
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• Miri, definition
  ...community (religious) as part of his court and as commanders of the Khalsa army.
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala
  ...awalia sardars, who also had Dhian Singh Dogra killed, but soon the Khalsa army under Hira Singh, Dian Singh son hunted down the Sandhawalias and killed th ...minance of the Dogras. She and her brother,Jawahar Singh, pleaded with the army panchayats (regimental committees) to banish Pandit Jalla, Hira Singh's adv
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• Heroism at the battle of Galli Poli
  ...ince the Sikh soldiers were known for their bravery and steadfastness, the British employed all their battalions, except the 35th Sikhs, for fighting in such ...ent to Ferozepur to take part in a wrestling match, he was selected by the British to join the 14th Sikhs. He was with the unit when Hamilton’s forces lande
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• Maharani Jind Kaur
  ...fter, Hira Singh captured the Fort of Lahore and on 16 September 1845, the army proclaimed the minor Duleep singh the sovereign of the State. Hira Singh w ...ured the Rani that Duleep Singh was indeed the Maharaja of the Punjab. The army generals treated Jind Kaur with deference and addressed her as Mai Sahib or
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• Ghadar Movement
  ...1900's. These Sikhs and Punjabi Hindus were sent to Canada which was under British rule for labour work. They crossed the border over to USA and settled in We ...m against the British. Result was that Canadian government which was under British rule started harassing them. White labour was encouraged to harass foreign
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• Sir Frederick Currie
  ...an of great resolution and the British feared that she might sway the Sikh army against them. Currie implicated her in a fictitious plot, had her allowance
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• Baba Bir Singh
  ...y day. Such was the influence Baba Bir Singh had acquired that a volunteer army of 1,200 musket men and 3,000 horse attended upon him. .... On 2 May 1844, [[Atar Singh Sandhanvalia]], who had been in residence in British India for some time, crossed the Sutlej into Sikh territory and joined Baba
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• Gurmukh Singh OBE
  Gurmukh Singh OBE (born 11 September 1938) is a retired British senior civil servant and prominent Sikh scholar. He advises many national l ...clan at Village Bassian in Ludhinana district of Punjab, was in the Indian army at the time and became well known Sikh gyani, an exegesist of Sikh Scriptur
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• Anglo Sikh War II
  ...bition of the new governor general, Lord Dalhousie (1848-56), to carry the British flag up to the natural boundary of India on the northwest. ...had his Agent, Frederick Currie, persuade the Lahore Darbar to request the British for the continuance of the troops in Lahore.
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• Rise of British Sikhism
  ...uk/tol/comment/faith/article5207347.ece From Punjab to Putney: the rise of British Sikhism] Times Online November 21, 2008 ...he sub-continent to be subjugated in the 19th century — to agitate against British rule.
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• Tuhfat Ul Albab
  ...at Hazara, surrender of the Sikh army and annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions.
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• Sikh bravery
  ...ratum of Indian life and every part of the country. The bulk of the Indian Army was recruited from the north, which is the origin of the traditionally mart ...tial spirit which come from the battles in North West Frontier Province of British India, China, Malaya, Burma, Italy, France, Belgium and Middle East. Sikh c
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• Lieutenant General Maharaja Yadavinder Singh
  ...ncely state of Patiala. Born on 7 January 1913 during the high noon of the British raj, he lived to see India become an independent democratic republic. He wa ...for a number of years. Seconded in 1935 to a crack Sikh unit of the Indian army, he did valuable work helping in reconstruction after the terrible Quetta e
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• Mehar Singh
  ...obriquet, "The Eyes of the Fourteenth Army" (The 14th Army was the British Army commanded by Gen William Slim). The Squadrons Hurricanes became a popular s
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• 1984- Some true facts
  Also the Anand Marraige Act (Form Sikhs had to fill during British rule) had been eliminated and ...eplica of the Darbar Sahib complex in mountain areas in order to train the army to
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• Damdami Taksal
  ...ountain passes by the Sikh Kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Khalsa Army. ...j Parkash) was also a student of the Giani Bhai Sant Singh Jee. During the British Raj Sant Sundar Singh played a considerable role in the [[Gurdwara]] Reform
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• Mahant Mul Singh
  ...ing behind a large estate and a minor son, (later Raja) Harbans Singh. The British government appointed Mul Singh as steward of the Raja`s estate. Mul Singh w
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• Jean Francois Allard
  ...he Maharaja had ensured that they were French officers of Napolean and not British spies. He was entrusted with the task of reorganizing the Maharaja's cavalr
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• A World War I Saga: When Sikhs saved French honour
  The German Army had signalled the First World War in mid-1914 with brilliantly executed ope ...t of a military defeat in Europe on their colonial empire. So the standing Army in India was immediately constituted into the First Indian Corps with the L
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• Mazhabi
  ...ritish officials. "Martial Race" was a designation created by officials of British India to describe "races" (peoples) that were thought to be naturally warli ...from the Mazhabi sikhs. On the out break of the Indian mutiny in 1857, the British immediately recruited 12,000 Mazhabis to crush the mutiny. After the mutiny
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• Moti Mahal, Poonch
  He engaged a british company for the selection of the site and blue prints. The work was done by While serving as the local QC for an army unit the Moti Mahal was damaged badly in the earthquake of 2005 suffering
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• July 9
  The British, who had been waiting for the right moment to intervene and establish their ...active providing personal inspiration and organizing supplies for the Sikh Army. Soon after the defeat at Gujrat, all the other Sikh chiefs had been captur
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• Sikhs & Indian Independence
  #More than 60% of the 20,000 who joined the Indian National Army were Sikhs. ...guish the calls for freedom and Sikh independence. In June 1984 the Indian army attacked the [[Golden Temple]] Complex and 125 other Sikh [[Gurdwara]]s in
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• Faridkot
  ...appears in the [[Guru Granth Sahib]]. Faridkot was feudlist province under British rule, but now it is a district in [[Punjab]] in independent India. ...clined Sri Guru Gobind Singh's request to use his fort to fight the Mughal Army. Otherwise the last war between Mughals and Guru Gobind Singh Ji was destin
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• Maharaja Sher Singh
  ...e dress and lavish jewellery. His soldierly mien made him popular with the army. He loved hunting and hawking, and devoted attention to cultivating Europea ...he acted as governor of the province of Kashmir. In 1834 he was one of the army commanders who led forces in Peshawar and who finally seized the city from
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• Namdhari Movement
  ...a Ram Singh Namdhari after the Anglo-Sikh wars. He was a soldier in Khalsa army. ...imself to his mission. For his religious pursuits he had ample time in the army which, towards the end of Ranjit Singh's day, was comparatively free from i
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• Origin of non violence
  ...atma Gandhi is credited with starting the non-violent movement to oust the British from India, which later was to inspire leaders all around the world, includ ...he Sikh community that successfully overthrew the Muslim Empire. Hence the British feared, correctly, that any threat to the continued success of their coloni
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• Sikh history
  ...anda Singh's army started moving forward. Ultimately, Banda Singh led his army to victory in that battle. He entered Sirhind and punished the cruel rulers ...her towns and cities also obeyed to emperor's orders and joined the Lahore army. Banda Singh was in the Gurdaspur area when he was attacked from all sides.
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• Sardar Ajit Singh
  ...aming (bowing in courtesy) that his elder grandfather did to younger men; British Sahibs (masters) who he thought were ill mannered and too stupid of being a ...speeches were aimed at raising an [[Azad Hind Fauj]] to fight against the British in India.
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• July 31
  ...ers in Punjab at the time and - against the repressive Rowlette Act of the British Government Several hundred people had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh, Amrits ...Dwyer was also offered a Kirpan (Sword of honor) and it was qouted in the British Parliament by Lord Finlay that he had been made a Sikh.
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• Captain Fateh Singh
  ...aptain Fateh Singh''' (1920-2017) was a Sikh armyman of the British Indian Army who fought in World War II and is Mentioned in Despatch holder. He was the ...bedaar Chatar singh (his Dad), He commented that he was from a traditional Army family and he would fulfill all requirements and needs
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• Sikh Ruhila Relations
  ...art of the treasure. Ala Singh had also supplied provisions to the Maratha army on the eve of the battle of Panipat, January 1761. The Durrani, therefore, ...Maratha control and Ruhilkhand conquered by the Nawab of Oudh in 1774 with British help, Zabita Khan's influence was restricted to a small area around Ghausga
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• Sikh/Maratha Relations
  ...ed at Delhi to join his combined force. Rao at the head of a large Maratha army, was offered 1,00,000 rupees for each day's march and 50,000 rupees for eac ...would remain two marches ahead of the Marathas. The combined Sikh/Maratha army occupied Lahore on 20 April 1758, the Afghan prince and his deputy had fled
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh War Museum Ludhiana
  ...by the officials. Another gallery displays portraits and busts of Punjab’s army men who had fought and got laurels in the three wars in 1948,‘65, and ‘
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• Remembering the battle of Gallipoli
  ...there were six battalions of the Sikh Regiment forming part of the British Army. Since the Sikh soldiers were known for their bravery and steadfastness, the British employed all the Sikh battalions, except the 35th Sikhs, fighting at such
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• History of Jammu and Kashmir
  ...gra Army of Jammu. '''The [[Sikhs]] ruled Kashmir till their defeat by the British.''' * After the Revolt of 1857, the kingdom came under the British Crown. Gulab’s son, Ranbir Singh, became the ruler.
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attari
  '''Sardar Sham Singh Attari''' (Circa 1785-1846), a Sikh general in the Sikh army of Lahore Darbar, belonged to a Jatt family of Sidhu Clan. was the only son ...,00,000 rupees which he had carted away from [[Jasrota]] to [[Jammu]]. The army under Sham Singh reached within 10 km of Jammu and obtained from [[Gulab Si
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• Vasakha Singh
  ...ur years, but he did not marry again. At the age of nineteen he joined die army which he left in 1907 to go to China. From China, he went on to the United ...tained his links with the Ghadr party. When the plot was leaked out to die British by a spy, Vasakha Singh was seized by police along with several other Ghadr
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• Toshakhana
  ...o the shrine authority on 5 January 1922. When under mounting pressure the British government finally caved, the Sikhs were asked to send representatives to p ...the night of 5/6 June 1984 when it was hit by cannon fire from the Indian army tanks that had been driven onto the marble pavement of the [[Parikarma]]. T
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• Maharaja Gulab Singh
  ...asty that was to rule the state, the second-largest principality under the British Raj, until India gained its independence in 1947. ...Empire. Later (''c.''1812), Gulab Singh enlisted in Emperor Ranjit Singh's army, becoming the commander of a Dogra cavalry contingent. He distinguished him
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• Ramdasia Sikhs
  ...ars who converted to Sikhism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ghuman|first=Paul|title=British Untouchables A Study of Dalit Identity and Education|date=May 2011|publishe ===British Raj===
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• When Sikhs captured the Red Fort
  ...ies to his side. The Mughals, the Marathas, the Rohillas, the Jats 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
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• General Harbakhsh Singh
  ...r of 1965. He was a calm, intelligent and brave Sikh soldier in the Indian Army. He served his people and nation in the tradition that has been established ...s a graduate of the 1st course at the IMA after a year’s attachment with a British battalion, The Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders, wherein he saw active serv
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• Maharani Chand Kaur
  ...zir Dhian Singh (the brother of Gulab Singh Dogra) and of a section of the army, marched upon and laid siege to Lahore. A compromise was, however, arrived ...f 9,00,000 rupees. Her Sandhanvalia supporters fled across the Sutlej into British territory. Chand Kaur retired gracefully to the segregation of her late son
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• Amar Singh
  ...strict of the Punjab. His greatgrandfather, Gulab Singh, had served in the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his grandfather, Harbhagat Singh, had been an Protesting the British demolition of a portion of the outer wall of [[Gurdwara Rikabganj]] in Delh
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• Gerard Anstruther Wathen
  '''GERARD ANSTRUTHER''' (1878 - 1958), a British educator who came by much applause and friendliness at the hands of his Si ...other things are not equal for he, on the verge of his degree, joined the Army in the University Signal Section. Not only did he alone of the senior class
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• Buckam Singh, Once Forgotten Sikh Canadian war hero
  ...ay's list. Bukum Singh came to Canada from Punjab in 1907. After mining in British Columbia he came to Toronto about two years ago. He went overseas with a Ki ...and was sent to Freeport Hospital in Kitchener -- then run by the Canadian army. He died a year later, at the age of 25, in 1919.
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• Sketch Of The Sikhs
  ...opies of various religious and historical works. In fact, he was the first British writer to think of the Gum GRANTH Sahib, the DASAM GRANTH, the Janam Sakhis 2. Khurana, Gianeshwar, British Historiography on the Sikh Power in the Punjab. Delhi, 1985
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• Bhai Maharaj Singh
  ...j Singh'''(d. 1856), a saintly person turned revolutionary who led an anti-British movement in the Punjab after the first Anglo-Sikh war, was born Nihal Singh ...8 to seek Chatar Singh Atarivala's assistance in his plans to dislodge the British.
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• July 23
  ...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
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• Kerala's First Sikh Convert S. Bhupinder Singh
  ...a College. But the returns were inadequate. So he joined the British Royal Army as a technician in 1940. He retired in 1968 as Subedar.
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• Arrival of the Ship at Budge Budge
  It appeared to be a deliberate ploy by the British. Subsequently, a riot breaks out. Of the 321 passengers on the ship at Budg ==The Sad Attitude of the British==
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• Harjit Singh Sajjan
  ...Afghanistan. Sajjan was also the first Sikh-Canadian to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment. ...in 1976, when he was five years old, to join their father who had left for British Columbia two years earlier to work at a sawmill. While the family was getti
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• Master Tara Singh
  Once the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Army impressed by the game, offered him a direct commission which he refused as ...for the freedom of our biggest gurdwara, our country, from the clutches of British Imperialism.'
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• Mair Rajputs
  ...supported by the armies and could not find any work as warriors many join Army and other trade and being rich some started jewelry businesses. "Sunar, Son ...egiments due to their famous Rajput warrior bloodline and today the Indian Army continuous this tradition.
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• Subedar Joginder Singh
  ...ining [[Param Vir Chakra]], the highest war time gallantry award of Indian Army that any soldier can aspire for. On 28 September 1936, he was enrolled in t ...ould not stem the tide of the Chinese advance single-handedly. The Chinese Army continued advancing with little concern for the casualties. By now all ammu
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• Vijai Vinod
  ...r Singh (194250). Then follow details about the flight of Sandhanvalias to British territory, their reconciliation with the Maharaja and their readmission to ...ent narrated in the ''Vijai Vinod'' is concerning the attack of the Lahore army on the Dera of the famous Sikh saint [[Bhai Bir Singh]] of Naurangabad, whe
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• Gurdwara Saragarhi
  ...Sikh and he remains one of his closest friends. He said that he knew many British Officers who had such a close affinity with their Sikh soldiers that they f ...soldiers were lauded in Britain and their pride went throughout the Indian Army. Inside every Sikh should be this pride and courage. The important thing is
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• Giani Gian Singh
  ...en to Lahore by his maternal uncle, Karam Singh, who was a Subahdar in the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Dhanna Singh Malvai introduced him to the Maharaj ...h's army. During the first Anglo-Sikh war, when Patiala was an ally of the British, Gian Singh was sent to Mudki where he was assigned to distributing mail. I
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• ‘Pagdi Sambhal Jatta Movement
  ...Singh and other Sikh commanders and declared that those who supported the British against the rebels would not only have their confiscated property returned; ...ermanent solution to these problems could not be achieved until the end of British rule and establishment of true democracy in the country. So he made it his
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• Mai Kishan Kaur
  ...trict. He was a dafadar or sergeant in cavalry who later resigned from the army and migrated to Barnala, where he died at the young age of 33. Three childr ...lanned to hold prayers for his well-heing and restoration. By order of the British-controlled state administration, a posse of armed police entered Gurdwara G
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• Mata Kishan Kaur Kaonke
  ...s married to Sardar Harnam Singh of Village Kaonke. He later on joined the army and died in 1902 while serving in Burma. Her two sons had also died when th ...was a great insult not only for all of the police force, but for the whole British government.
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• Brutally Massacred: Kashmiri Sikhs
  ...Sikhs were murdered - Al Capone style - by government assassins in Indian army uniforms. ...l be fought mainly in Sikh Punjab) want to arouse Sikh anger as the Indian army needs the support of the Sikhs on the ground! They have already requisition
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• Sarkar Khalsaji, the Sikh Raj
  ...he records for these were kept at [[Amritsar]] and [[Lahore]]. As the Sikh Army (Dal Khalsa) grew new regions where administered and new Sikh barons came t ...eir territories which was extended to distant quarters of India, after the British withdrew from India.
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• Gadar Movement
  ...e governments protested against mis-treatment against their nationals, the British Goernment of Indian did nothing. The Canadian government further tightened ...he place of pen and ink." In simple words, their aim was to get rid of the British raj in India through an armed rebellion.
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• Letter dated June 2 1984
  ...khs, was this holiest of Sikh shrines ever attacked, not even in the alien British rule. ...84-operation-bluestar-eyewitness-accounts.html Eye witness accounts of the Army action]
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• Jammu
  ...ngh's Toshkhana (treasury) was able to purchase Jammu and Kashmir from the British, thus it was that the Dogra Rajputs were, once again, able to re-establis ...was only a last minute airlift of crack Sikh airborn units of the Indian army, that the Pathan's advance was stopped. The Pathans disappointed their Pak
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• Jallianwalla Bagh massacre
  ...ed the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless [[Indian]]s by a senior British military officer (Brigadier-General R.E.H. Dyer), which took place on '''13 ...(Mahatma) Gandhi]] (1869-1948) who after a period of struggle against the British in South Africa, had returned to [[India]] in January 1915 and Mrs Annie Be
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• Sikh Ravidasia
  ...and Leather Tanning. They were the main supplier of Army Shoes to British Army. These days most of the tanneries (leather manufacturing units), shoe facto === British Raj ===
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• Conversion to Sikhism
  ...formerly Muska Kakar – Muska is the daughter of a high ranking Afghanistan Army official in the Hamid Karzai administration and comes from a devout Muslim ...Teachers of Punjabi Sikh Ancestry: Their Perceptions of Their Roles in the British Columbia Education System’, written as part of her Master’s thesis.
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• History
  ...est [[Sikh]] warriors as well as a most hallowed martyrs of the [[Khalsa]] Army. The Khalsa were engaged in a prolonged fight against the cruel [[Mughal]]s '''[[1849]]-[[1947]]''': The British Raj
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• Jagjit Singh Chauhan
  ...elebration of the Martyrdom of Guru Arjan) and many soldiers of the Indian Army. ...his interview the Thatcher government curtailed Chauhan's activities. The British government had also instructed him to confine his activities within the bou
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• Sardar Bahadur Gopal Singh
  ...of Merit which equals the Paramvir Chakra/Victoria Cross), O.B.I (Order of British India) and given land of 150 acres at village Wagah in district Lahore, Pak He joined the army in 1882 in Rasala Regiment but had to leave the army after his father’s death in 1885. Thereafter, he looked after the Jagir o
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• Victoria Cross
  ...my" to members of armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. It takes precedence over all other postnominals and med ...civilians under military command, and is presented to the recipient by the British monarch during an investiture held at Buckingham Palace. Many Sikhs have be
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• Harbinder Singh Rana
  ...ikh-regiment-in-army-675143.html|title=Prince battles for Sikh regiment in army|date=23 June 2001|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref ...omote a greater awareness of the shared heritage between the Sikhs and the British; the organisation through its website explores this close relationship betw
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• Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
  ..."waging war against His Majesty the King Emperor". They were tried by the British at the end of World War II in the historical trial that began on 5 November ...t. In 1919 he left Deolali as his father got an appointment at home in the Army Remount Department, with headquarters fixed at village Chak No. 32, commonl
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• Malva Region
  ...ny Jatts of the Malva joined the Sikh faith, in large numbers, joining the army of the sixth Guru, [[Guru Hargobind Sahib]] ji. [[Guru Har Rai]] Sahib Ji, ...iana district, by Baba Ram Singh (1816-1885), who used to work in the Sikh army of Punjab, during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sher-e-Panjab (1780-18
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• Himachal Pradesh
  Many young men from Himachal serve in the Indian Army and have played a significant role in the National defense. Dharamsala has Shimla was the former 'summer capital of the British Raj' it is known for its beautiful English country village atmosphere, its
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• Princess Bamba Sutherland
  ...age of 46, married Lieutenant-Colonel David Waters Sutherland,. an Indian Army doctor, who later became the Principal at King Edwards Medical College, Lah She frequently visited India during the days of the British Raj, but after arriving back in Britain in 1946, the country was partitione
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• Sardar Man Singh, Rariala
  ...red Raja Hira Singh`s brigade as a cavalry adjutant. He fought against the British in the first Anglo Sikh war at Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sabraon. After the hos
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• Lt. General Harbaksh Singh
  '''Lt General Harbaksh Singh''' (1913 – 1999) was a senior Indian Army officer who played a key role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was ...rom 1964 to 1969. He successfully led western command against the Pakistan Army along the entire border and displayed outstanding leadership during which M
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Koh-i-Noor diamond
  ...in. It was finally seized by the East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. ...Delhi due to confrontation by the Sikhs. He captured Lahore, but the Sikh army did not allow him to enter Amritsar.
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• Shahid Pratap Singh of Punja Sahib
  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
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• Old News 2
  ...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
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• Teja Singh Swatantar
  ...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
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• Mohan Singh Oberoi
  ...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
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• Jaito Morcha
  ...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
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Nairobi
  ...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.
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• Akali
  ...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
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• Gurmukh Singh Lalton
  ...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
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• Later Sikh Rule and Kashmiri Pandits
  ...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
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• Reaffirmation of Sikh Values (1890 A.D - 1940 A.D )
  ...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
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• 12 o'clock joke and many more
  ...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
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• Baba Gurmukh Singh Laliton
  ...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
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• Battle Of Kargil
  ...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
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• When Sikhs conquered Delhi
  ...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
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• Anup Singh Choudry
  ...ry's Asians and European citizens and forced around 30,000 Asians holding British Passports to flee to Britain.
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• Babbar Akali Movement
  ...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
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• Giani Thakar Singh
  ...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
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• Anti Sikh Racism in Europe
  ...: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>
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• Gurdwara Sahib Silat Road (Silat Road Sikh Temple)
  ...mber 1849 as he was planning a revolt with Punjabi soldiers in the British Army.
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• July 24
  ...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
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• Akali Phula Singh
  ...mritsar into the Maharaja's hands. Akali Phula Singh joined the Maharaja's army along with 3,000 Nihangs. For his many efforts he was made the Jathedar of ...Muslim unit of the British army, under the command of General Metcalf (a British officer) was visiting Amritsar. The Shias, apparently Metcalf was elsewher
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• Operation Blue Star: Detailed account
  ...o were jealous of Guru Ji's power. Hindus always betrayed Sikhs. After the British annexed the Sikh Kingdom, a Hindu sect Arya Samaj turned against [[Sikh]]s ...fied to draw the sword as taught by Guru Gobind Singh." But as soon as the British left India Sikhs were fired from their jobs and Hindus were hired. Sikhs we
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• Labana
  ...re Military persons who were Kashatriya rajputs they also served in Guru's army from sixth guru sahib till the end of sikh empire and played major role in * Lobanas also worked as intelligence for Kings and held major posts in army.
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• Hoshiarpur
  ...ix battles which the Guru fought against the Mughals, the solidiers in the army from the district played a significient role in achieving victory for the G ...re and build a fort in 1701, which was dismantled at the annexation by the British Government.
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• Ibratnamah
  ...tains 376 folios written in bold nasta'Uq hand. It was Colonel Wade, the British political agent at Ludhiana, who had assigned the author's father, Mufti K ...in Persian bearing this title, is a manuscript of 71 folios, preserved in British Library, London. A transcribed copy of it is available in some libraries in
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• The Indian Ghadar Movement South East Asian, Japanese and Canadian Connection
  ...hich were aimed at revolutionary conspiracies with a view to overthrow the British Government in India by violent means. Massive studies on the theme from the ...believed that in order to win freedom, they needed to put pressure on the British rulers through various means including violence. The Ghadar movement, which
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• Battle of Naushera
  ...ly ruled for six generations, untill the [[Sikhs]], [[Marathas]] and the [[British]] destroyed their power. India and its more moderate religions had largely ...the Punjab under Afghani control. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was helped by his army led by generals such as [[Hari Singh Nalwa]] his most decorated general, th
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• Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh
  ...distraught; he never quite understood his father or his quarrels with the British Government. On the P&O (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) w ...The children of Indian extraction were disqualified by parentage from the army under the existing rules, but Queen Victoria bent the rules for her godson.
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• Akali Movement
  ...feeling had been prevalent among the Sikhs since almost the advent of the British that the administration of the Harimandar at Amritsar was far from satisfac ...s organized a semimilitary corps of volunteers known as the [[Akali Dal]] (Army of Immortals). The Akali Dal was to raise and train men for 'action' to tak
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• Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  He was also the [[Misldar]] (Chief/Baron) of the [[Ahluwalia misl]] or army group. This period was an interlude, lasting roughly from the time of the d ...mander of the Sikh Confederacy in addition to being Baron of the Ahluwalia Army (misl). Nawab Kapur Singh appointed him as his successor on the eve of his
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• Kartar Singh Jhabbar
  ...rkar Khalsa. Sardar Mangal singh virk was given the rank of Kumedan in the army of the Khalsa. ...ead to the curfew. After this there were increased attacks on the British army, police, administration offices, and railways, this riots had spread over t
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Mombasa
  ...r the Ugandan Railways starting at Mombasa. Called the ‘Lunatic Line’, the British had recruited several thousands of Indians -- with many Sikhs serving as ma ...tured labourers in 1898 and, together with their fellows in the Police and Army, were responsible for the construction of the first Gurdwaras, not only in
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• Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  '''Army of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]''', a formidable military machine that helped ...ikhs, one free of forign rule. Early in his career, he had watched how the British troops with their systematic training and their discipline, had vanquished
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• Kartar Singh Sarabha
  ...entured labourers in any of several British Colonies or as soldiers in the British/Indian Armed forces then fighting in Europe (WWI), the Middle East or in on ...arty). The aims of the Ghadar Party were to free India from the slavery of British Rule, by means of an armed struggle and to set up a national democratic gov
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• Koh-I-Nur
  ...gold, silver and pashmina shawls of the famous Toshakhana (treasury). The British considered all of it an indemnity (to pay for costs of the 2 wars); the you ...oday it weighs only 106.1/16 carats still the most brilliant gem among the British crown jewels, if no longer the largest. While having a portrait painted of
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• Sant Atar Singh (Mastuana)
  ...re under the guidance of its granthī, Bhĝī Jodh Siṅgh. He was still in the army when he took a vow not to marry. ...t, but by 1891, he he managed to have his name struck off the rolls of the army so he could devote himself solely to preaching the holy message of the Gur�
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• Sikh sacrifice in Belgium
  As soon as the war broke out in early August 1914, both British and the French were mobilizing their respective empires. Soldiers and labou ...ans and Flemings, who were often unable to speak or understand French. The British includes of course, English, Scots, Welsh, Irish, Channel Islanders, and I
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• Defining Khalistan
  ...in their heart of hearts. Never had a man of peace, unarmed and without an army dared to challenge the mighty Mughal Emperor, let alone, in his own Darbar ==The Sikh Misls and Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Treaty with the British==
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• Namdhari
  ...selves the initiators of India's struggle for freedom since they boycotted British education, law courts, railways and post office services. Apart from the be ...tally across the forehead, called Sidha Pag (straight turban). Because the British, fearing revolution, banned the right to carry arms, Namdharis carried a sm
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• Ghadriite Harnam Singh Tundilat
  ...He learnt to read Gurmukhi in the village Dharamsala and joined the Indian army as he grew up. On 12 July 1906, he emigrated to Canada and then to Californ ...f the Ghadr Party was directed towards a planned rebellion in India as the British got involved in Europe. While Udham Singh Kasel started imparting military
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• Kaur Singh Chakkar
  ...ue which was full of semi-literate bigoted Muslim youth. To make sure that British award them a new state of Pakistan they started attacking Hindus and Sikhs ...red him into action. He went to Delhi and became guide of the first Indian army which landed at Srinagar to stem the tide of tribal invasion and remained t
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• Arain people
  ...of the Muslims from Afganistan, who were slow to accept the change to the British educational system and the change from Persian to English, the '''Arains'' *'''Muhammad Hayyat Madni''' - Commander In-Chief of Muhammad Bin Qasim's Army.
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• Sikh Historic Events: January
  1806: Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a friendship treaty with the British. 1846: The Battle of Budowal was fought between the Sikhs and the British.
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh liberates Jammu
  ...han the acting Governor of Kashmir collected his troops and faced the Sikh army but he failed to stop the onslaught of the Sikh forces. After Khan's defea ...ictorious Sikh army entered [[Srinagar]]. The commanders of the victorious army were personally ordered by the Sikh ruler that they should take special car
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• Fatuhat Namah - I - Samadhi
  ...d at GurdasNangal, a village six kilometre west of Gurdaspur. The imperial army invested the house, blocking all possible routes of escape and cutting off
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• Sant Baba Karam Singh Ji
  ...Lord's name. He would inspire his fellow soldiers to remember God's name. British officers too, held him in high esteem. After the 1857 mutiny was quelled by the British, the British gave a free hand to their soldiers to indulge in looting and arson. On seei
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• Ratan Singh Bhangu
  ...se of the then popular theory of sovereignty as an aid to expansion of the British East India Company controlled territory, was the obvious motive. Sensing th ...possessed any political weight in Mughal India was present with the Mughal army seeking to exterminate Banda.
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• Sada Kaur
  ..._role_in_uniting_Misls.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Rani Sada Kaur leads the Sikh Army onto Lahore]] ...tes to him. Sada Kaur refused and threatened to seek the protection of the British in the cis-Sutlej territory and hand over to them the town of Vadhni, locat
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• Jagjit Singh Aurora
  ...Aurora looks on while Lieutenant General Niazi, Commander of the Pakistan Army in the East signs the Instrument of Surrender}}]] ...my in 1971 led to the creation of [[Bangladesh]]. He was born in Jhelum, [[British India]] (now, Pakistan) and died in [[New Delhi]], [[India]].
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• Old News 8
  ...com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/teaser/large/BitArmy.jpg|The British Army will walk side by side with Sikhs in Derby as they join the annual Vaisakhi
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• Nalwa and NWFP
  ...ould have been lost to India forever. They would not have been part of the British Empire. Pakistan would also not have inherited them. These would have been ...e was not unknown to the Hazara tribes. When Maharaja Ranjit Singh led his army to conquer Mankera in 1821, he ordered Hari Singh Nalwa who was in Kashmir
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• Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh
  ...noured with the rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force (equivalent to the Army's Field Marshal), on the Republic Day of 2002. This is appropriate and time ...r 1943. During the next few months, No. 1 Squadron detachments carried out army co-operation exercises at Adampur, in the Punjab.
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• Gurbachan Singh Salaria
  ...ed their clans as Salahria." '' W.Chichele Plowden , ( 1883 ), Census of British India taken on the 17th of February 1881, Volume III , London , Eyre and Sp ...isregard for his personal safety were in the best traditions of the Indian Army. For his extraordinary leadership and devotion to duty, Captain Gurbachan S
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• Kohinoor
  ...seized as a spoil of war, it became part of the British Crown Jewels when British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli proclaimed Queen Victoria "Empress of Indi ...t he returned in a month with a larger and determined army. The unprepared army of Warangal was defeated. The loot, plunder and destruction of Warangal con
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• Hari Singh Nalwa
  ==Joining Sikh Army== ...4, Hari Singh participated in a recruitment test for service in the [[Sikh army]] and so impressed [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] with his skill at various dril
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• Bhai Baghel Singh
  {{p|File:Sardar Baghel Singh.jpg|Bhai Baghel Singh at the head of a Sikh army, artist unknown}} ...y an adversary to his side. The [[Mughals]], the Ruhilas, the Marathas and British sought his friendship. In the wake of decay of Mughal authority in the Punj
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• World Muslim Sikh Federation
  ...h as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that virtually enables the Indian army to detain, shoot dead and raid peoples' homes with impunity and immunity fr ...Rai who spoke of how closely the current Indian Constitution resembles the British legislation imposed on the region in colonial times where the emphasis was
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• Partition of Punjab
  ...ed by the British to communalise politics. He became a staunch ally of the British and lent his commanding influence to preach gospel of loyalty among Muslims The Indian national congress was founded in 1885 by Some British and Anglo-Indians to demand a legislative assembly and other democratic rig
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• Naushehra Pannuan
  ...illage. The old Post office located in the old bazaar was built during the British times. Independence of India brought new institutions such as Panchayti Raj ...Commonwealth Games 2010 shooting champion, currently serving in the Indian Army.
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• Old News 9
  ...]s are important and, I hope, helpful for the two Sikhs who joined the USA army and are facing identity issues.}}
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• Maharaja Duleep Singh
  ...ve and the house into a quasi-oriental palace where he lived the life of a British aristocrat, hunting with the High Society and Royals of Britain, even the P ...ahore. Despite the apparent generosity of the peace treaty, in reality the British began to dismantle the Sikh State.
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• SANT BHINDRANWALE'S IDEOLOGY AND MISSION
  ...of Hinduism Sikh ideology was diluted. This diversion happened during the British rule in India. Nevertheless it did not lose its distinct identity as it flo ...e." Earlier, too, he expressly and repeatedly said that the day the Indian Army attacked the Golden Temple and Akal Takht, foundation of Khalistan would be
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• Lahore Darbar
  ...t as [[Sarkar Khalsaji]], and the term "Lahore Darbar" is not used even in British records until after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. ...abile and Ventura, the architects of the Europeanized wing of the Darbar's army were Christians.
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• Sikhs in the Eyes of Others
  ...that my country's good demanded this ('''Gough's words to Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister'''). ...fond of martyrdom. They fight courageously and are capable of defeating an army much bigger than them.”
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• Rajputs
  ...n the armed forces before (and after) the Partition of India in 1947. The British Government recruited them heavily into their armies. ...h recruited heavily from these "martial races" for service in the colonial army.
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• Old News 10
  ...gat.org/1469/2009/07/comments-of-british-generals-regarding-sikh-soldiers/|British Generals comments regarding Sikh Soldiers|File:Sikhguardswords1.jpg|''"The ...orating burkas are part of a push to build a more diverse Australian Army. Army chiefs are hoping to attract bigger numbers...}}
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• Sikh History July
  ...onal Conference at Kamloops. The attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian army struck the Sikh world like a thunderbolt. All shades of Canadian Sikhs came ...s of a general amnesty. Two of the four acquited were killed by the Indian army while they were returning to India.
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• Sikh History June
  ...628: [[Guru Hargobind]] Sahib's first battle was fought against the Mughal Army.''' 1984: Indian Army's final assault on Sri Darbar Sahib and the Akal Takhat was begun. Addition
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• Pervez Musharraf
  ...Staff of the Pakistan Army.<ref>{{citenews|title=Musharraf Quits Pakistani Army Post|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=2007-11-28|accessdate=2007-11-28 ...me Pakistan's ''de facto'' head of government, thereby becoming the fourth Army chief of Pakistan to have assumed executive control. Later in 2001, Musharr
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• Handalis
  ...ndiala, where the guardians of their temple enjoy a jagir or fief from the British Government. They are now .known by the name of Niranjanie, or followers of The British Scholars would attempt to do the same thing, in their turn, buying up and r
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• Satnami's
  ...scattered themselves in the forest of what is now Chhatisgarh. Aurangzeb, army was recalled as they were required else where. ...eign organization, prominent amongst them being the Scottish Sikh Council, British Sikh Council etc. These efforts keep them attached with the Gurughar. For t
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• Baba Kharak Singh
  ...a proposed resolution to be moved at the conference wishing victory to the British in World War I. ...to be arrested and this was the first of his numerous jail terms under the British. His arrest led to a vigorous storm of protest against the Government.
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• ISI former head says Sikh community gives him "next-to-Guru" status?
  ...they became known in India. The ISI was tasked with doing what Pakistan’s army could not - under Operation Topac, conceived by Pakistan’s President Zia- ...ecided to stay on the Pakistani side of the border during the partition of British India. Sikhs were attracted to Pakistan for two reasons: 1) Pakistan was th
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• Communal Award
  The '''Communal Award''' was an official statement of British government policy in respect of the composition of provincial legislatures ...ather than to the population at large. Among those who were treated by the British as a class or a single interest group were each of the several "communities
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• Bollywood’s Hidden Agenda ?
  ...generations into history. Their pasts intersect under the Mughal rule, the British rule and the struggle for independence that culminated into the fires of pa ...are, the Sikh Regiment is the highest distinguished regiment of the Indian army with 73 battle honors and 38 theatre honors. It was decorated the highest B
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• Old News 13
  ...old devotee of Sikhism, was granted special exemptions last year regarding Army Regulation 600-20 that permit him to wear a beard and a turban}} ...gpipers or drummers to join our group! Sikhs served proudly in the British Army during the Second World War.}}
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• Sikh Light Infantry
  ...ly known as 'The Royal Sikh Pioneers Regiment' is a Regiment of the Indian Army. Its name was changed to the '''Sikh Light Infantry''' in 1944. The Sikh Li : Branch Army
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• Babbar Khalsa
  ...rigin to the [[Babbar Akali Movement]] of [[1920]], which agitated against British colonial rule in India. The conception of Babbar Khalsa in its modern day f ...and personal friendship and fought alongside each other during the Indian Army's assault on the Golden Temple complex in June 1984.
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• Gurdwara Janam Asthan Guru Nanak Dev
  However, when the British authorities learned of the massacre they quickly ordered their troops to oc ...Jathas or groups. They pressed forward, group after group, in spite of the army's threats to gun them down.
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• Sikhs in World War II
  ...h forces that fought in the 14th Army (called by themselves the "forgotten army" ) during the infamous Burma Campaign. It has proven difficult to find the ...soldiers once again stepped forward as the mainstay of the British Indian Army. Despite the rising voice of dissent by Indians for Independence, volunteer
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• Bhera
  ...ch declined due to the discovery of sea routes, Bhera too fell victim to a British Imperial order which brought a complete halt to the invaders from the west. ...lost the war]. One can still visit and see the British monument where the British dead are listed.
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• An ode to Punjabi culture
  ...ure, is perhaps the most beautiful house (of the state) dating back to the British time. The house provides a nice green space in the concrete commercial jung ...hristian priest of a missionary school in 1925 stands as a monument of the British era. He moved into this house in 1930.
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• Delhi Fateh Divas
  ...celebrations saw a “Khalsai March” where Nihang Singhs, Gatka groups, Sikh army personnel and Sikh Sangat participated. The event organized by the Delhi Si ...naur]], near [[Patiala]] city. As a result of the victory, the huge Mughal army surrendered before Baghel Singh's forces.
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• THE GANDHI - JINNAH APPEAL FOR PEACE
  ...n nation to receive power as an undivided and powerful free India from the British Government. The League, on the contrary, wanted to achieve its separate st ...helped the authorities in tracing such criminals, who in fact were its own army in action. It may be recalled that Mahatma Gandhi successfully persuaded H
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• Martyrdom and the Sikhs, Thoughts on Fenech's Thesis
  Baba Dip Singh with 5,000 men went against a huge army to liberate Hariminder Sahib. He knew the odds were against him but he was ...Bhangu and Trumpp were motivated by the gratifications they got from their British masters.
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• Chief Khalsa Diwan
  ..., when the Duke of Connaught was visiting India as a representative of the British Crown, was considered an appropriate occasion to initiate the programme and ...lable to the Indian people, the Chief Khalsa Diwan kept up pressure on the British authorities through representations and memoranda. In 1913, one of its lead
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• Operation Blue Star
  ...India, {{w|Indira Gandhi}}. At the time of the operation, close to 100,000 army troops had been deployed throughout [[Punjab]]. A group of Sikhs, led by [ ==The Army's plan==
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• Dr. Ganda Singh
  ...Forman Christian College at [[Lahore]], but soon left it to enlist in the army (1919). ...potamia Expeditionary Force, Basra, in 1920 and later to the British Royal Army Pay Corps, also at Basra, in 1921. At Basra he was shot in his thigh, after
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• Europe remembers
  ...e to the fallen warrior – is sounded every evening under the Menin Gate, a British memorial to the missing in Ypres, to commemorate all soldiers who fell arou ...ies, on memorials and in remembrance ceremonies as belonging to the former British Empire.
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• Sikhism in Thailand
  ...1939 A.D. These groups of Sikhs were also involved in the Indian National Army (INA) during the World War II.
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• Professor Ganda Singh
  ...potamia Expeditionary Force, Basra, in 1920 and later to the British Royal Army Pay Corps, also at Basra, in 1921. ...Abadan as accounts officer. At Abadan, he came under the influence of the British scholar, Sir Arnold Wilson, who besides his official duties as general mana
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• Bhagat Singh Thind
  ...www.indianexpress.com/news/First-turbaned-Sikh-congratulated-on-completing-Army-training/595004])- they can look at the 90 year old photo of the young rec ...n be playing in an early attempt to free his homeland from the yoke of the British. Leaving Seattle he worked his way through several lumber camps finally com
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• Sanatan Singh Sabha, article being reconstructed
  ...Propagation of the Gospel, Methodists, Moravians, Episcopalians, Salvation Army etc. all vied with each other in gaining converts to Christianity. The Sanatan Sikh world that the British conquered was considered ‘Boh Panthi’ (pluralistic). The reader must ap
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• Gurdwara Shahidi Asthaan Baba Banda Singh Bahadur
  ...ed his friendship, they are free to shout their call and say prayer in the army of the wretched." ...ront of the early attemps to gain India its freedom from under the foot of British Imperialism.) The following lines of this poem are worth noting:
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• Mughal
  ...1857, immediately prior to which it existed only at the sufferance of the British East India Company. ...ed military commander, entered India in 1526 with his well-trained veteran army of 12,000 to meet the sultan's huge but unwieldy and disunited force of mor
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• Namdharis/Kookas
  ...em were killed or exiled from the Punjab, to Burma, Singapore, etc. As the British try to put them down, but the remaining Kookeh's in the Punjab continued to ...Kuldeep Singh stated that he heard the same fact from elderly Namdharis. A British text written early last century also claims Balak Singh was an Udasi:
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• Sikh History October
  ...abbars appealed, through their "Babbar Akali Doaba" newspaper, to Sikhs in British forces to join the Babbar ranks. ...abbars appealed, through their "Babbar Akali Doaba" newspaper, to Sikhs in British forces to join the Babbar ranks.
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• Kapurthala
  ...ers of Kapurthala District. It was the former capital of princely state of British India of the same name. The secular and aesthetic mix of the city with its ...includes the Sainik School, Kendriya Vidyalaya (Kapurthala Cantt.) and the Army School.
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• Akhbarat-i-Deorhi-i-Maharaja Ranjit Singh Bahadur
  ...transmit all the arrears of revenue as early as possible failing which an army would be sent against him (fol. 489). Kaura Mall Sahu is sent for and pashm
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• Last of the second world war Sikh RAF fighter pilots
  "The British people are foolish. They don't even know we Indians were there," he said. ...941 he was forced to land in the North African desert and was picked up by British troops. Awais Younis, 14, a pupil from Alexander High School in nearby Tipt
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• Khalsa Diwan Sikh Temple
  ...as built in 1901 by local Sikhs, including Sikhs soldiers from the British Army. This holy shrine functions in its role of providing religious, social, pr
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• Sikhi and Islam
  ...gdom in this world as a vanguard of this revolution, Akaal Purkh Ki Fauj – army of the Eternal Spirit. ...ommended to Guru Gobind Sing had broken their pledges to fight in the Sikh army and had joined the forces of the Hill Chiefs and their Mughal allies who ha
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• Afghan - Sikh Relation(1748 - 1849)
  ...on of India, Ahmad Shah advanced towards [[Sirhind]] to meet a [[Mughal]] army which he was informed was advancing from [[Delhi]] to oppose him. On the wa ...ngent of 1500 horse to Chatar Singh, leader of Sikh resistance against the British.
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• Gurdwara Shaheed Dr. Diwan Singh
  ...inland. Apart from those who live here there are always Sikh officers and army naval personal posted on the Island. There has been a Sikh presence in the ...started in 1931 with the staged railroad incident of the Imperial Japanese Army who then occupied South-East Manchuria; for Africans the war started in 193
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• Misl
  ...n the country. The 'Misldar' was the leader or commander of the 'Misl' or 'army group'. ...cording to some, at [[Akal Takht]], under the commander of the entire Sikh army, the Dal Khalsa) pertaining to a Sardar's fighting force and territorial ac
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• Menin Gate and the Sikhs
  ...uring the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of wint ...ommemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
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• Khalsa College
  ...tack on Amritsar. A force of 700 [[Sikhs]] defeated the much larger Mughal army. ...fessor Gurmukh Singh and [[Sardar Jawahir Singh]]. Many princely states of British India gave their financial help in the establishment of Khalsa College, inc
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• OFFER OF SIKH STATE RECALLED BY MAHARAJA YADAVINDER SINGH
  ...copied from The Sikh Encyclopedia [http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/the-british-and-sikhs-1849-1947/offer-of-sikh-state-recalled-by-maharaja-yadavinder-sin Posted in Historical Events in Sikh History - The British and Sikhs (1849 - 1947)
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• Sikhs in Indian Air force
  ...ont of aviation activities be it with the Indian Air Force, Naval Air Arm, Army Aviation Corps, or the air wings of the Coast Guard and Border Security For ...e out in 1914, he was at his second year at Oxford and practically all his British colleagues volunteered to join the fighting services.
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• Udham Singh
  ...usands. The large crowd had gathered to protest a recent clampdown by the British Government, including the arrest of some activists, who like many other Ind ...mbled in [[Jallianwala Bagh]], [[Amritsar]], to register a protest against British colonial rule in India and against the arrest and deportation of Dr. Satya
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• Battle of Saragarhi
  ...ritish India}}). In keeping with the tradition of the [[Sikh Regiment|Sikh Army]], they fought to the death rather than surrender. ...ed with the heroic stand of a small Greek force against the mighty Persian Army of {{wiki|Xerxes I}} in 480 B.C.
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• Sikhism in Pakistan
  ...947 Partition of India, which carved the new State of East Pakistan out of British India, Sikhs had long played an important role in village life across the ...n reached into the higher ranks with one even becoming a Brigadier in the army. Moreover, members of the tiny Parsi community have some representation in
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• Tarkhan
  ...sly in crack Commando units of the Punjab and Sikh Regiments of the Indian Army, as brave fighter pilots and in the Navy. They were made famous on the silv The Tarkhans are among the Races designated by the British as martial races.
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• Tarn Taran
  ==Tarn Taran and the British Raj== After the annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions, the management of the shrines at Tarn Taran, along with those at
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• Sobha Singh
  As a draughtsman in the [[Indian]] army he served in [[Baghdad]], in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). On coming back from Ba He left the army in 1923 to pursue an independent career in drawing and painting, initially
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• On This Day
  ...abbars appealed, through their "Babbar Akali Doaba" newspaper, to Sikhs in British forces to join the Babbar ranks. ...abbars appealed, through their "Babbar Akali Doaba" newspaper, to Sikhs in British forces to join the Babbar ranks.
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• Talwinder Singh Canadian
  ...right to vegetarian meals. After some time he left Canada to join the Sikh army. He participated in several expedition and actions. In October 1992, he was ...youth, Inderjit Singh Reyat, both came to me. We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered of
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• History of Punjab
  ...e army of fierce warriors from frontier Punjab utterly ruined one Akshauni army of the illustrious Vishwamitra, along with all of his 100 his sons except o ...aemenid Empire in 331 BCE and marched into present-day Afghanistan with an army of 50,000. His scribes do not record the names of the rulers of the Gandhar
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• Heer Ranjha
  ...Bhera, Sargodha District, [[Punjab]], India; which since the farengis (the British) partitioned India (dividing the former kingdom of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh] ...nt. He summoned his friends and set off to catch Luddan. Heer collected an army of her friends and confronted Sardar Noora and defeated him. When Heer’s
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• Koh-i-Noor
  ...days later some Persian soldiers were killed in a skirmish with the Mughal army. When Nadir Shah came out to enquire into the incident a few stones were t ==In the British Hands==
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• Interesting articles 1
  ...Wars, turbaned Sikh soldiers, who fought as part of the British Indian Army, refused to wear steel helmets, writes Major-Gen Kulwant Singh (retd).}} ...iatrics and neonatology. I was trained at the prestigious University of British Columbia, Vancouver. At the Children's Hospital I am the only turbaned S
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• General Zorawar Singh
  ...and impressed from the fighting and bravery potential of Rana Rao Bhatti's army, they gave offer of their daughter to Rana Rao Bhatti, and he accepted it. ...d territory to the northwest of the Mayyum Pass. But then a strong Tibetan army descended from Lhasa and confronted the invaders at Tirthapuri, near [[Lake
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• Turban
  ...Singh, a Sikh theologian and statesman, "When asked by Captain Murray, the British Charge-de-affairs at Ludhiana in about 1830, for the captain's gallant mind [[Image:Birmingham sikh.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Sikh man with a Turban in the British Police. <small><small>Picture by RM Singh, Tribune</small></small>]]
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• Sikh History August
  She was arrested by the British government in 1847 and imprisoned at the Shaekhpura fort. After numerous ef ...lice gangs, some Sikh leaders attanded the convention. The generals of the army of Khalistan, in this convention, confirmed their goal of total freedom fro
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• Mohyal
  |''Frequent Mohyal title. The term Bakshi was also used for a paymaster of an army, and a small section of Mohyal families carry that name for that reason.'' ...tp://www.defencejournal.com/2003/june/tribesandturbulence.htm]. During the British rule they were favored in military recruitment due to their strong martial
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• Sikhs in Assam
  Assam became a part of India after the British occupied the region following the Treaty of Yandaboo of 1826. It is known f ...y the Muslim rulers, no western power ruled Assam until the arrival of the British. The most successful invader Mir Jumla, a governor of Aurangzeb, briefly oc
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• Nawab Kapur Singh
  ...]] of [[Banda Singh Bahadur|Banda]], his son, seven hundred of his devoted army members and thousands of Sikhs taken captive or beheaded along the march to ...- The [[Budha Dal]], the army of the veterans, and the [[Taruna Dal]], the army of the young. Baron Hari Singh Dhillon was elected its leader of the younge
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• Pakistan - Birth and objectives
  ...d of state which the Muslims have achieved through the good offices of the British in the shape of Pakistan. No amount of reasonableness and accommodation, n Self-Government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appe
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• Golden Temple
  ...], the great Sikh Maharaja of the only Sikh state to never be ruled by the British during his lifetime was, besides one of the greatest generals of military h ...mbat. Such was the story of David and Goliath, recorded in the Bible. The army of the losing side was honor bound to leave the battle field. Such tactics
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• Proofs in Sketch of Sikhs about Guru Gobind Singh's Compositions
  ...bled by Guru Govinid; and the latest was called in 1805, when the British army pursued Holkar into the Penjab.
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• DID THE SIKHS HAVE A PLAN ?
  ...helpless women and children, brigands and desperadoes of all kinds. This �army� was led by a group of intelligent and coolly planning leaders on top, wh ...tablished some sort of order would be restored, more successfully than the British Government had been able to do. This hope, unfortunately, was soon belied.
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• Sarbat Khalsa
  Khalsa is the army of the [[Akal Purakh]], Khalsa is born of the wish of the Supreme Spirit.}} ...ted towards [[Jasvant Rao Holkar]], the Maratha chief who, defeated by the British, sought refuge and the support of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Only chosen Sikh
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• Old News 16
  ...w.sikhchic.com/cms/articles/thumbnail/SikhReg-thmnl.jpg|"In war", writes a British Officer, "under stress, there is no one like the Sikh; work him almost to d {{Newschic2|2999|Sikh-Brit Army Officer in Queen's New Year's Honours|http://www.sikhchic.com/cms/articles/
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• Dr. I. J. Singh
  ...ostly farmers and laborers. Educated Sikhs started arriving here after the British left India, when opportunities in Great Britain dwindled and gates to Ameri ...Sikhs during the struggle and for this was promptly shipped to Moga by the British government.
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• Patwant Singh
  ...ching the borders of Kabul and Tibet, built up a formidable army, kept the British in check to the south of his realm, and closed the Khyber Pass through whic ...he hands of his successors whose internecine conflict was exploited by the British.
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• Sathiala
  Balwant Singh, a member of The Gadar Party, fought against the British Regime, and was tried in the First Lahore Conspirary case. ...ingh Bal – Administrator of Dera Beas after his retirement from the Indian Army and Ex Sarpanch.
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• Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
  ...rah, a retired risaldar (cavalry) major and honorary captain of the Indian army, Arur Singh, were anathematized among Sikhs for their association with the
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• Sikhism in Australia
  ...itish colonies, the citizens of these countries were free to roam to other British countries, which is why you see Sikhs in Malaysia, Fiji, Burma, Hong Kong e ...e Army, buying land in Pakistan (when new colonies were established by the British to till the land), or many chose the courageous venture of seeking opportun
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• Old News 15
  ...would feel proud to send my younger son Sandeep Singh to serve in Indian Army."}} ...2011 thousands of Sikhs from all over the World gathered at Forli Indian Army War Cemetery in Italy for an inauguration ceremony to reveal the first Sik
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• Sikhism in Canada
  ...her give employment to these old soldiers who have helped to fight for the British Empire than to entire aliens."'' (The Daily Province, October 1906) ...nies were already, as were the Canadians they joined, loyal members of the British Empire.
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...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 ...gn minister, a Muslim named [[Fakir Azizuddin]], who when meeting with the British Governor-General {{wiki|George Eden}}, 1st [[Earl of Auckland]], replied to
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• Giani Kartar Singh
  ...r the Viceroy`s proclamation of 3 June 1947 announcing the decision of the British government to divide the country conceding the Muslim League`s demand for P
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• The splendid panoply of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  Invitations were sent to the British Governor General; the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Henry Fane; his old friend, S ...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
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• Languages of Punjab
  ...and journalism. Urdu was also the major language of literary expression in British Punjab while Punjabi was the spoken language. As Punjabi Hindus were mainly ...nd Sikhs jointly constituted a minority against the Muslim majority in the British Punjab the Sikhs, by and large, threw in their lot with Hindus.
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• Hari Singh Nalwa and the subjugation of north-western frontier
  ...forever and in that case these territories would not have been part of the British Empire. Nor Pakistan would have inherited them. These would have been in ...who raised a cry of Jehad under Azim Khan Burkzai, ruler of Kabul. A big army was collected on the bank of the river Kabul at Naushehra. Ranjit Singh wo
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• Sikhs in World War 1
  ...he arrival of some untrained Territorial battalions from England the total British garrison in India, a country bigger than Europe... was reduced to less than ...ninsula three miles from Cape Helles. The French were on the right and the British 29th Division on the left, with three battalions of the Royal Naval Divisio
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• Essence of Sikhism
  [[Arnold Toynbee]] a British Historian when writing the Foreword in "The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs" b == Khalsa is "God's army" ==
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• Machhiwara
  When Aurangzeb's army attacked the fortress of [[Chamkaur Sahib]], [[Guru Gobind Singh]]ji succes Seven persons of the town battled for the freedom of the country from British rulers. They are :
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh folklore
  ...f Guru Gobind Singh and those of the Maharaja which were taken away by the British in 1849. * [[Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]
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• Milkha Singh
  ...affargarh]] city in [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British India]] (now [[Muzaffargarh District]], [[Pakistan]]). He was one of 15 sib ...uits.<ref name="koshie" /><ref name="bs" /> Singh has acknowledged how the army introduced him to sport, saying that "I came from a remote village, I didn'
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• PRELUDE TO GENOCIDE OF HINDUS AND SIKHS
  ...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?==
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• Sikhs and their Turban
  ==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
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• Women and Partition
  ...st Viceroy of India, after visiting district of Rawalpindi reported to the British Government in England, "The whole of the Hindu-Sikh part is an absolute wre ...The Governments of India and Pakistan who had recently taken over from the British, had no comprehension of the enormity of the situation. The people in gener
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• Akal Takhat Quotes
  ...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).
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• Khatri
  ...abandon their heriditary family lands and flee to the Indian side of the British imposed dividing line. Today Khatris live in all regions of India, but are ...nto the East India Company territory. Sadhu Singh Gulla fought against the British Empire in the 19th century.
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• Sansi Rajput
  ...ginal Punjabi work "Jattan da Itihas" by Gurjant Singh)".] [1911 census of British Punjab - Major General Arthur Edward Barstow] Sansi (Sandhawalia) is a smal •Sikhs: comp. under the orders of the government of India. by: India. Army; Bingley, A. H., 1865-1944. Publication date: 1899
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• Jatt
  ...d heavily from these so-called 'Martial Races' for service in the colonial army. A British Officer, Captain Falcon, in his Handbook on Sikhs [1] wrote, in 1896, "The
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• The Legend of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
  ...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 ...d his death a few days later. There was a renewed and effective boycott of British goods. Radicalism was in the air.
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• Old News 11
  ...between-sikhs-and-armed-forces|UK seminar boosts links between Sikhs & the Army|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/UKAF-THUMB.jp ...n are trying to preserve a martial art that frightened the life out of the British when they ruled India. Grunting at each other like wild boars, they brandis
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• Sant Teja Singh
  ...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.
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• Khalistan
  ...(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), p. 204. </ref> The army operation was followed by wholesale killings of Sikh males between the ages ==Sikh Role Against British Colonialism in South Asia (1912-1947)==
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• Tatt Khalsa
  ...nteraction of the Indian traditions with the new technologies and ideas of British Rule. Hinduism and Sikhism are therefore relatively recent creations of the ...any with Banda Singh during his last defensive battle against the imperial army. They called themselves Tatt Khalsa, "ready" Khalsa. Banda Singh was put to
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• Sikh Basic & Misconceptions
  ==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.
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• Ignored Sikh Tribes; Vanjaras, Sikligars and Satnamis
  .... These were manufactured on a large scale in the workshops of Lahore. The British period hit them very hard. Ban was ordered against their weapon manufacture ...scattered themselves in the forest of what is now Chhatisgarh. Aurangzeb, army was recalled as they were required else where.
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• Shaheed Bhagat Singh
  ...ad followed Gandhi's wishes by burning his government-school books and any British-imported clothing. To avenge Lala Lajpat Rai's the workers of the Hidustan Socialist Republic Army held a meeting at Lahore on the night of the 10th December,1928, and chalke
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• Bhai Roop Chand
  ...under the command of Raja Anand Pal fought against Mahmud Ghazni with 3000 army men. They supported Malik Khusro of Jammu against Mahmud Ghazni. They start ...the battle against Sirhind. Bhai Dharm Singh ji was commander of the Malwa army. Fateh Singh of Bathinda and Dan Singh Brar also fought along with them.
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• Shiromani Akali Dal
  ...ervice commission; maintenance of the then existing Sikh percentage in the army; Sikh representation in the Central cabinet and the central public service
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• THE CABINET MISSION AND THE MUSLIM LEAGUE DIRECT ACTION
  ...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 British Baluchistan .. .. .. ..
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• RSS
  ...ons. Banda Baigragi had with him Rajput warriors and a he gathered a Hindu army to punish the evil Wazir Khan. ...l excesses at Kanshi and Mathura? Why are none of the famous Hindus in his army recorded in history? Why were the Faujdars of conquered areas always Sikhs?
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• Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi
  ...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 ...e of darkness, a white-clad warrior would come from the East and create an army of white-clad warriors who would rise up and protect the "Unified Supreme S
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• Operation Blue Star: The untold story
  ...''' or '''"Ghallughara"'''. Two different terms for the same episode - the Army action on the Golden Temple in June 1984. Two different meanings give to th ...ople's recollections of what really happened at the Golden Temple when the army attacked it in June 1984. Listening to the gripping eye-witness accounts of
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• Negative and Positive views of Sikhs in the Media
  * 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, ...ime to Hana and her romance with Kip, an Indian Sikh sapper in the British Army. Due to various events in her past, Hana believes that anyone who comes clo
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• Akal Takhat , Background
  ...Akal Takht for the protection of the country from any invaders. During the British period, volunteers took vows of non-violence at Akal Takht before participa ...had renounced the world. Yet you are wearing arms and going about with an army mounted on horseback. You allow yourself to be called Sacha Padshah-a True
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• Bhatra
  The Sultan's army was easily defeated on 17 December 1398. Timur entered Delhi and the city w ...e time of the Second World War there were a few hundred Sikhs clustered in British seaports like Cardiff, Bristol, and Southampton. Some returned to India whe
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• Haridwar
  ...life and time stretching from the period of the Buddha to the more recent British advent. ...Suchat Singh . It is a 3 km trek from Chandighat . Legend has it that the army chief Chanda-Munda of a local demon King Shumbh- Nishumbha was killed by go
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• A Kashmiri Mystery, The Chittisinghpora Massacre
  ...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.
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• Sikhs in the Netherlands - a Brief History
  ...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. ...khs in Amritsar on Vaisakhi Day in April 1978, during attack by the Indian Army on Siri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar - the Central Holy and Spiritual place of t
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• Sant Mat
  ...rofessor Harjot Oberoi from the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Religi ...pearance? And who gave this “Hindu Jat” the title of “Sardar Bahadur”? The British colonists used to bestow “Rai Bahadur” and “Sardar Bahadur” titles
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• Nanded 1708
  ...awaiting news. In order to show sympathy towards Guru Ji he despatched his British surgeon Dr Cole to attend to Guru Ji’s wound. The surgeon was a very capa ...hieftains rode towards Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s camp at Paonta Sahib with an army of over 30,000 men. Guru Sahib Ji, who incidentaly was 20 years old, gather
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• Interesting articles 3
  ...uket to do Tin Mining and Railway Engineering under the supervision of the British"}} {{Newschicnew|2981|New Sikh Heritage Museum in Abbotsford, British Columbia|http://www.sikhchic.com/cms/articles/thumbnail/Abbot-thmnl.jpg|Lie
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• Sikhism & RSS
  ...'t they save their women from Muslims? Why couldn't they fight Muslims and British? Why did they have to beg Sikhs to save their religion? They have no answer ...d who was his teacher? What exactly made him reach the decision that a new army was needed? Why couldn’t he use his hindu maratha warriors or turn the up
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• Anandpur resolution
  the 19th century, and again by the outgoing British as well as by the Hindu-dominated Defense services and needs of the Sikh army personnel shall be adequately taken care of by
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• Anandpur Sahib Resolution
  ..., Calcutta, till the middle of the 19th century, and again by the outgoing British as well as by the Hindu-dominated Congress and the Muslim League of India i ...kirpan is accepted as an integral part of the uniform of the Sikhs in the Army.
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• Gurbachan Singh Manochal
  ...h's uncle had become Shaheed in the [[Jaito Morcha]], marching against the British Raj. ==Life in the Army==
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• Buddha Dal
  ...lar designations of the two divisions of the Dal Khalsa, the confederated army of the Sikhs during the eighteenth century. With the execution of Banda ...d resumed his former policy of persecution through his gashti fauj (roving army) and again rewarded informers and private killers of Sikhs. While the Tarun
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• Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
  ...me out of the scheming head of one Jinnah who was aided and abetted by the British, and that Muslims and Islam had nothing to do with it; that, in fact, they ...Sikhism. The early inspiration was provided by Christian missionaries and British officials like Macauliffe, but it was internalized by many Akali scholars.
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• India, shame on you!
  ...ou will be judged among civilisations, such as the [[Mughal]]s and the {{w|British}} who reined before you! ...the title ''"Hind dee chhaadar"'' or ''Protector of Hindustan''); the {{w|British}} too are infamous for killing 1000s of Indians, including the cold blooded
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• Did you know
  ...first [[Gurdwara]] in the whole of America was built in 1908 in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada under the management of the [[Khalsa Diwan Society]]. This ...]]s during the eighteenth century, the other one being the [[Buddha Dal]] (army of the elders)....
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• Gurdwara Nanaklama Sahib
  ...ely. The same names are found recorded in the ancient maps prepared by the British in nineteenth century. Some grazers projected another problem to Guru Nanak The present Gurdwara structure was built by officers of the Assam Rifles and Army personnel with the help of the local lepcha tribe in the early eighties. Th
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• Bhai Nand Lal
  ...anied the Prince on an expedition to Ghazni in 1639 and was assigned to an army unit stationed there at the end of the operation. He summoned his family fr ...ar school which was in existence until the occupation of the Punjab by the British in 1849. Among his writings may be mentioned:
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• Sikh Holocaust of 1980s
  :2) The Third Sikh Holocaust involved the use of a national army against its own citizenry. ...ance of priceless Sikh artifacts from the Golden Temple complex during the army assault.
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• Chittisinghpura Massacre
  Wearing Indian Army fatigues to avoid detection, the killers, who came into the village in two ...ll observe the seventh anniversary of the massacre on March 20 even as the Army and CRPF have been deployed in and around the village in Kashmir.
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• MARCH, 1947
  ...the Punjab, the Muslim League would not be able to receive power from the British Government in June, 1948, the target date by which according to the Februar ...slim League Government, which should receive power, in June, 1948 from the British Government.
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• Sects
  ...ety of the hellish Hindus) swelled the ranks of Banda, and everyone in his army ‘would address the other as the adopted son of the Oppressed Guru ([[Guru under British influence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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• Bhai Ram Singh and Khalsa College
  ...cally conquered and enslaved huge numbers of humanity. On the one hand the British Parliament strove for suffrage and representation for its people yet on the The British Raj brought forth new cultural and behavior patterns among the people of th
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• Sikhi
  ...of the Indian Armed Forces. In 2005, the first Sikh General of the Indian Army was designated. Also they have a major presence in the Transport Industry ...he Sikh's [[Khalsa Army]] defeated the invading [[United Kingdom|British]] army and signed treaties with [[Wikipedia:China|China]].
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• EUROCENTRISM AND KHALSA-CENTRISM
  36. Guru Gobind Singh joined the imperial army of Emperor Bahadur Shah. ...46) and H.H. Wilson (1848) and E. Trumpp were reinforcing and legitimizing British imperialism by downgrading the religion of the Sikhs (it must be noted that
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• Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur
  ...reater atrocities of the Persians, Afgaanis and the mixed blessings of the British conquerors that completed their demise. ...hat shall we do? Guru ji, we have no one else to turn to. We don't have an army to protect us - We need your help. Please assist us"''''', said Kripa Ram.
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• Tikana Bhai Jagta Ji Sahib
  ...Sargodha camp in Pakistan and then to Amritsar, with the assistance of the army. He then chose Goniana Mandi, in District Bathinda, to re-establish the Tik
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• The Battle for Amritsar, 1947
  ...m technique of arson and learnt to do the thing efficiently as the Muslim 'army' of the League had no doubt learned by forethought long before the thing wa ...safety and security to which they had grown accustomed during the days of British rule. Now on all sides there was complete lawlessness. The police were no
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• Origin Of RSS
  C.R. Thomas is a British journalist covering India. ...India began when, due to the "disunity of the Hindu race", Muslim and then British aggressors invaded and took over this "holy land". The long term goal of th
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• Poet Shyam
  Krishna killed the army rushing like clouds; a great part of the army was divided into fragments on seeing Krishna; the ‘‘‘poet Shyam’’ And others came alongwith the army in order to welcome him; according to the ‘‘‘poet Shyam’’’, all
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• Professor Puran Singh's historic letter
  ...em, equally balanced in the practical exercise of political power that the British might give them out of their great mercy for fallen nations !!<br><br> ..., the present Government of India with its variety of Services is like the army in the trenches without the general staff behind. The Government looks like
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• Sikh websites
  * [http://www.bcsikhyouth.com/ BC Sikh Youth.com: ] Sikh Youth of British Columbia ...nd.com/Welcome.html www.bhagatsinghthind.com The first Sikh to join the US Army]
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• Misrepresentation and vilification of Sant Bhindranwale ==
  ...killing of Hindus in Punjab so as to set in motion a general exodus'. The army action was described as 'operations taken to remove terrorists, criminals a ...ings.' The fact is that when the Government was in the process of training army units in the planned invasion of Darbar Sahib, the only charges against San
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• Fools Who Wrangle over Flesh
  The following is an Extract from an officer in the Bengal Army and is taken from the Asiatic Annual Register 1809: ...the British Raj and encouragement of recruitment of Sikhs into the British Army. Many new converts to Sikhism came into the fold, many of whom still practi
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• Vegetarianism Other Views
  The following is an Extract from an officer in the Bengal Army and is taken from the Asiatic Annual Register 1809: ...the British Raj and encouragement of recruitment of Sikhs into the British Army. Many new converts to Sikhism came into the fold, many of whom still practi
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• Nanak in Sikkim, Ladakh and Tibet
  ...ely. The same names are found recorded in the ancient maps prepared by the British in nineteenth century. ...owever, started cropping up only after 1998. The Sikkim Government and the Army refused to allow visits by pilgrims to the Gurdwara for reasons best know t
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• The Sikhs of Africa
  ...Now, at that time the British were encouraging people to come to British East Africa. Another of my uncles, my mother's brother Nahar Singh Pangli ( ...ed with honour before transferring to the Indian Police and then coming to British East Africa. Besant Singh had killed twenty-four lions during the advance o
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• Punjab Suba Movement
  ...tional or scientific basis. They were more the result of the exigencies of British conquest. To have some of these demographic imbalances corrected and inconv ...few were beaten to death on the spot and the rest were handed over to the army. A South Indian pilot belonging to the Air Force, who had made an emergency
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• Jahangir and the Muslim fundamentalist movement
  ...d [[India]] from 1605 until his death in 1627. He signed a treaty with the British East India Company promising their merchants preferential treatment, openin ...ssings. While crossing the river Chenab he was apprehended by the imperial army and thrown in prison and later put to death.(5)
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• Baba Harnam Singh ji Rampur Khere wale
  ...y School in Ludhianaa and was selected as Second Lieutenant in the British Army Artillary Unit. Before being commissioned he had to go through a medical ch
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• Dasam Granth
  ...sources on the Sri Dasam Granth and how the Granth was marginalised by the British. ...en they were leaving Anandpur Sahib. The surprise attack caused the Guru's army great damage. He very daringly addresses the emperor about the breach of fa
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• Saini
  ...large number of villages, and where they also held the Zaildari in the British era. They are descendant from Rajputs <ref name = "Saini Rajput"> ''"In the ...statutory agricultural tribe as well as a martial class. <ref>The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab,pp 99, 205, By Rajit K. Mazumder, Permanent Black
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• Bhagat Puran Singh
  ...e was the Padamshri award in 1979, which he surrendered in the wake of the army attack on the Golden Temple in 1984. ...on 4 June,1904 in village Rajewal of [[Ludhiana district]] of [[Punjab]], (British India). After the death of his father, his mother encouraged him to pass m
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• Fools Who Wrangle Over Flesh II
  The following is an extract from an officer in the Bengal Army and is taken from the Asiatic Annual Register 1809: ...itish Raj]] and encouragement of recruitment of [[Sikh]]s into the British Army. Many new converts to Sikhism came into the fold, many of whom still practi
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• Swami Dayanand Saraswati:A Prophet of Modern Hinduism
  After commissioning in the U.S. Army and weeks before leading to the 1984 tragedies affecting the Sikhs in India With the introduction of British colonialism in the Bengal region of India a new ideology took birth that wa
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• Speeches: Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
  ...ure Death". Sikhs were brutally murdered within a few months by the Indian Army & the Police forces, all on order from the Indian Government in 1984. This ...the Guru who are sitting here, gave 93 heads (93% of people hanged by the British were Sikhs). All the others gave 7 (the actual number was 28. Apparently, S
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• The Sikhs Under the British, Book Three, Sangat Singh
  THE SIKHS UNDER THE BRITISH ...ce at Sikh shrines and participation at annual functions fell sharply. The British worked out in 1855 that the Sikhs, who constituted 10 million during Ranjit
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• Evaluating Dayanand's Views on Guru Nanak & the Sikhs
  ...ate Guru Nanak’s ideology or his followers because he was living under the British Colonial Empire, not in the “Aryavarta” – “the glorious Vedic kingd ...a Man Singh was a very distinguished and decorated commander in the Mughal army. In gratitude, Akbar cancelled the Jizya (poll tax on non-Muslims) imposed
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• Jew
  ...mother or converted in accord with Jewish Law. American Reform Judaism and British Liberal Judaism accept the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as ...h continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the c
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• The Book of Ten Masters
  “Let him sit armed on his throne, and raise as best he can an army at his right hand!” “ That was grey lady, the couple go to Goindwal, where they join the holy army of the Guru.
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• FAQ
  ...ed his personality in the body of the community when he created the Khalsa Army. ...ill and uniform, but that does not minimize The need for such in a regular army, in The same way, The Sikhs of Guru Gobind Singh stick to his uniform and T
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