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• Baatcheet - Indian Army Bulletin
  1. It is amply evident now that the decision to employ the army in Punjab to deal with the tragic situation was taken by the authorities re The Army Action
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• INA
  ...ely this ended with the Sikhs fighting against Sikhs in the British Indian Army.
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• Subedar
  ...mpany's presidency armies (the Bengal Army, the Madras Army and the Bombay Army) to make it easier for British officers to communicate with native troops. Until 1866, the rank was the highest a non-European Indian could achieve in the armies of British India.
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• Sarabjit Singh Dhillon
  ...ce services staff course, Wellington, senior and higher command courses at Army War College, Mhow and also the National Defence college at New Delhi.
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• Sher Singh Attariwalla
  ...ianwalah." However, with supplies running out for his army and the British Army resupplied with fresh military supplies and more troops, the success in the
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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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• 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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• Kulwant Singh Pannu
  ...gail (now in Bangladesh) and tasked to cut off the 93 Brigade of Pakistani Army which was retreating from the north to defend Dacca and its approaches. For
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• June 18
  ...cent people were killed. In the 1984 action called Operation Bluestar, the army stormed the Golden Temple under the pretence of driving out armed militants
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• Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
  ...of Longewala for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army. ...ld the 2000-3000 strong Pakistani Army at bay for the full night until the Indian Air Force arrived in the morning.
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• Chanan Singh Dhillon
  ...d War II hero and veteran. He fought in World War II in the British Indian army. He was taken prisoner (POW) by the Germans in 1943. He stayed in POW camps ...r the full recognition of the sacrifice and courage of the soldiers of the Indian-subcontinent, African and Caribbean origin who fought in WWII for the allie
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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 ...egislator in the Punjab, he was elected to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, for two terms. In and out of Parliament he strove for the recog
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• Brave Acts of Singhs
  ...ed he would kill all Skh soldiers, within few minutes, although some Hindu army officers warned him againist directly engaging against singhs as they might ===A Sikh Army officer===
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• Nand Singh VC
  '''Nand Singh VC''', MVC (24 September 1914- 12 December 1947) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for 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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• Nagrota
  Nagrota is the home of 16 Corps, the largest Corps in the Indian Army. The corps is tasked with counter insurgency operations in the Jammu and Ud A Military Police checkpost is located at the entry point. Army personnel are required to enter their particulars - in a register at the ch
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• Karamjeet Singh Judge
  Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for ...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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• December 27
  Khalistan supported and the Indian army takes control of all Sikh functions.
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• Firozpur Cantonment
  ...British Indian Army. Today, it is a Divisional headquarter for the Indian Army.
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• Malagar Singh Babbar
  ...as killed with his close friend Shaheed Manjeet Singh Babbar by the Indian army on the border of Rajasthan, India on 25 October 1990. Was a General of the
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• Mohan Singh
  ...Mohan Singh Deb (1909-1989) was famous for his part in the Indian National Army for the liberation of India from British rule, in which he held the rank of ...College, Nowgong (Madhya Pradesh), and another two and a half years in the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, he received his commission in 1934, and was po
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• Manjit Singh Babbar
  ...Indian army on the Darbar Sahib, bhai sahib and 8 other Sikhs hijacked an Indian Airliner from Jammu to Lahore. The other hijackers were: ...tani movement. On Oct 25 1990, while they were crossing border, the Indian Army was passing, and Malaghar Singh with anger, opened fire, as consequence Man
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• Gurdwara Yaadgaar Shaheedan
  Dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of 1984 assault of the Indian Army on the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple), Sri Amritsar ...ex add grandeur to Sikh history, who fell martyr fighting against the huge army, defending these shrines from the invaders. ''
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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. ...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 to Lance N
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• Highly Distinguished Sikhs (Modern Era)
  * [[Master Tara Singh]] - celebrated Sikh hero leader and famous Sikh Indian independence movement leader * [[Baldev Singh]] - Indian independence movement leader
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• Gian Singh, Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  '''Gian Singh''' (5 October 1920 - 6 October 1996) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for 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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• 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
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• Francis
  ...Francis, who arrived at Lahore in 1833 and joined Maharaja Ranjit Singl's army. ...writer, or me, less formally had the unusual experience of shopping in an Indian clothing store, with my wife, who was looking for some bangles, north of At
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• Parkash Singh
  '''Major Parkash Singh''' (31 March 1913- 23 March 1991) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for 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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• Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna
  '''Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna''' was an Indian revolutionary and the founding president of the Ghadar Party. He was born i ...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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• Sikh population
  ...nd]] and [[Jammu and Kashmir]]<ref>Break down of Indian Sikh population by Indian States/Union territories [http://www.censusindia.net/religiondata/Summary%2 ...s in the [[Indian Civil Service]] and, in particular, the [[British Indian Army]], which led to migration of Sikhs to different parts of [[India|British In
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• General Mohan Singh Deb
  ...lic life as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) of the Indian Parliament. ...College, Nowgong (Madhya Pradesh), and another two and a half years in the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, he received his commission in 1934 and was pos
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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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• Mass Murder of the Sikhs in Kashmir
  ...ot identify the murders, but provides enough raw-material to challenge the Indian Government’s familiar version blaming the Kashmiri militants. For example ...tity of the murderers is known," thus distancing himself from the official Indian version.
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• Gurdwara Charan Kamal Sahib (Kargil)
  ...s been built at that place near Igbal bridge, which is being run by Indian Army.
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• Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia
  Lt Gen Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia AVSM**, YSM, VSM, is serving in the Indian Army and is presently the General Officer Commander-in-Chief, Central Command. ...l Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery from Indian Military Academy on 14 Nov 1971. A keen aviator, he has a great amount of e
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• Operation Wood Rose
  ...rrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army. ...tion were well aware that one of the most decorated Generals in the Indian Army's history had joined the Sikh occupiers of the Akal Takht and was surely ad
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• Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh
  ...re. He is considered the bravest and most efficient General of the Indian Army. Air Vice Marshall Pinto, Lt Gen Daulet Singh, Brigadier S.R. Uberoi (MC) [[Image:Indian-Army-Helicopter.jpg||175px|right|]]
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• Sajjan Singh Rangroot
  Sajjan Singh Rangroot is a 2018 Indian Punjabi-language war drama film directed by Pankaj Batra. It stars Diljit D ...film titled "Sajjan Singh Rangroot". The film portrays the experiences of Indian soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Western Front during World War 1.
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• Dalip Singh
  ...hen did not bring home any laurels, but it is on record that two among the Indian athletic performed really well, and one of them was Dalip Singh. In the lon Another honour which went to Dalip Singh was that he was the first Indian, a Sikh, to be the torch-bearer at the inaugural Asian Games at Delhi in 19
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• Lashkar militant admits killing Sikhs in Chittisinghpura
  Suhail Malik of Sialkot, interviewed by a New York Times correspondent in an Indian prison, has said he had no regret that he participated in the massacre, whi ...oney. He took part only in two attacks before Chittisinghpora -- one on an army outpost and the other on a bus carrying soldiers.
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• Henry Charles Van Cortlandt
  ...d Sabhraori. On the conclusion of the war, he was reinstated in the Sikh army, promoted a general and made governor of Dera Ismail Khan. In 1846, Gener
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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 ...months. He also took part in the non-cooperation movement launched by the Indian National Congress, serving a 14-month term in jail. In 1926, he visited Mal
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• Hemkunt sahib during the Uttrakhand floods disaster 2013
  ...hrough out, providing shelter to another for the ENTIRE time. While Indian Army specially the brave Garhwal Scouts had their hands full trying to evacuate ...s huge calamity out. There was also a small permanent detachment of Indian Army Sikh regiment soldiers who helped to establish control and provided much ne
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• Punjab insurgency
  The insurgency in the Indian state of Punjab originated in the late 1970s. There roots of the insurgency Punjab, after Indian independence, had large Hindi speaking areas in the south and the west. In
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• Ishar Singh CV
  '''Captain Ishar Singh''', (13 December 1895 - 2 December 1963) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for 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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• Southall
  ...row Airport. The most significant cultural group to settle in Southall are Indian [[Punjabi]]s. ...Indian draught beers and was the first pub in the UK to accept payment in Indian rupees. Also the film ''"Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal"'' starring John Abraham and
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• Bhai Amrik Singh
  ...at [[Harmandir Sahib]] ([[Amritsar]]) during the attack by the [[Indian]] army known as [[Operation Bluestar]]. He gave new life to the Sikh Students Fede ...t released in 1984. On June 4, 1984, [[Operation Blue Star|when the Indian army invaded Darbar Sahib]], he fought bravely embracing martyrdom on [[June 6]
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• General JJ Singh
  ...SIngh 1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|{{C|'''[[General JJ Singh]], Chief of Indian Army'''}}]] ...oginder Jaswant Singh''' (b. 17 September 1945) is the first Sikh Chief of Army Staff of [[India]].
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• Joginder Singh Dhillon
  ...ero. He was commissioned into Bengal Engineer Group in 1936, was the first Army Officer to be awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ on 24 November 1965. Gen Dhillon, ...Lt Gen and was the first post independence Sapper Army Commander (Central Army).
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• Hitler on Sikhism
  ...Indian Legion (Legion De Freis Indian) he makes derogatory remarks against Indian people, although complements Sikhs specifically. The translated version is ...eaten up. They won't kill an Englishman either. In particular the Northern Indian, produces a better solider. This may be due to the dominant Aryan traits pr
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• Amarinder Singh
  ...n the Indian Army in June 1963 and resigned in early 1965. He rejoined the Army immediately because hostilities broke out with Pakistan and took part in th ...he resigned from Parliament and from Congress (I) as a protest against the Army entry in [[Darbar Sahib]]'s complex in [[Operation Bluestar]]. He became co
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• Joginder Jaswant Singh
  ...oginder Jaswant Singh''' (b. 17 September 1945) is the first Sikh Chief of Army Staff of India. ...se as at the time of his appointment he was the most senior officer in the army after General Vij.
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• Henry Fane
  ...h Sir Henry, questioned him on the strength and composition of the British army, on the extent of Russian influence in Persia and on the ability of the Sha 3. Buckland, C.E., Dictionary of Indian Biography. London, 1906
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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. No less than ten generals from Majitha can be counted in the Maharaja's army during the period of 1800-1849. Chief amongst the Majithia generals during
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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. ...cs than most other Indian peoples, Sikhs have provided the backbone of the Indian military since the late 19th century. While it may not have been accurate t
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• Sant Nidhan Singh
  ...0 and enlisted in the 5th Probyn`s Horse, a cavalry regiment of the Indian army, at Jharisi. But he resigned within a year and set out on a pilgrimage to [ ...ahib. To collect funds for the [[Langar]], he went out on preaching tours, army units being his special constituency. As his popularity and his resources g
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• A.S.Vaidya
  ...26 - 10 August 1986) was the 13th Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) of the Indian Army. ...le to push through the lane and quickly deploy itself to meet the Pakistan Army's counter-attacks.
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• July 22
  ...ference was held at Toronto. The attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian army struck teh Sikh world like a thunderbolt. All shades of Canadian Sikhs came ...uld be left to the Panth; that Canadian Sikhs boycott all functions of the Indian diplomatic missions; that media, especially ethnic media which published an
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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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• CAROLINE FEZLI AZAMJOO COURT
  ...ion other dowry during her life. The same document provides a list of some Indian belongings she distributed to their children. A beautiful painting, oil on
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• Pre-Independence : Sikhs Contribution to Freedom & Promises Made
  ...rtion to their demographic strength (the Sikhs make up less than 2% of the Indian population). In the Indian Liberation Army, out of the 20,000 ranks and officers, 12,000 (60%) were Sikhs.
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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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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. ...e first to form the nucleus of that invaluable Seikh element of the Bengal Army, that has since served the British Government with so, much credit in every
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• News on Operation Bluestar
  ...ndian%20Parliament%20on%20Operation%20Bluestar%20awards.htm Sikh MP shames Indian Parliament on Operation Bluestar awards] by Parmeet Pal Singh 17 June 2009 {{p|File:Tarlochan Singh.jpg|Tarlochan Singh, MP in Indian Parliment}}
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• Rattray Sikhs
  ...d Wars and even today remain a front line infantry battalion of the Indian Army.
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• Operation Shanti
  ...ikhs, was not satisfied with the result of Operation Blue Star, the Indian Army's attack on the Akal Takhat with battle tanks, mountain guns and helicopter ...e subjected to massive aerial bombardment, apart from being slaughtered by army and para military forces. The Sikhs all over India were to be subjected to
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• Indo Pak Border Hussainwala
  ...ering and thunderclap of heavy boots of the well-dressed in Kahki uniform, Indian BSF Jawans who equalize their counter part, the sound of Peshawari Chapples ...ugh, there has been no legal compulsion on both the sides for the same. On Indian side this check post is about 100 feet from the Zero line and from Pak it i
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• Beant Singh
  ...temporal seat [[Akal Takhat]], killings of hundereds of civilians in this army attack and killings of Sikhs in the countryside afterwards. ...k. Several other Sikh Gurudwaras were also attacked similtaneously. Indian army even burnt the historical Sikh reference Library afterwards. These events c
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• US Pres. Nixon and Dr, Kissinger attempted to derail Azad Bangladesh
  ...Nixon, the only American President to resign in disgrace, once referred to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as, "…the old witch", according to recently ...involved. China declined and on 16 December the war ended with the Indian army and Bengali separatists taking Dhaka.
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• Beant Singh & Satwant Singh
  ...dira Gandhi at her residence in revenge for her order to command the India Army into the sacred precinct of the [[Golden Temple]] in [[Amritsar]]. ...Gandhi}} was motivated by [[Operation Blue Star]], an attack by the Indian Army on the holy [[Golden Temple]] complex in [[Amritsar]], [[India]]. [[Satwan
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• Operation Woodrose the follow up
  ...rrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army. ...tion were well aware that one of the most decorated Generals in the Indian Army's history had joined the Sikh occupiers of the Akal Takht and was surely ad
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• Martyar Jagat Singh
  ...e he joined the 47th Sikh Platoon Indian Army. After two years he left the Army and went to Shanghai (China). Next year he went to the Philippines and afte
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• News-pending
  ...is residence in Shaheed Bunga Street on the back side of Sri Darbar Sahib. Indian forces had initiated their attack on Sri Darbar Sahib at 4:45am on the morn ...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
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• Sikh Artillery of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  ...nnon detail.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Detail of Captured Sikh Cannon, from the Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. photo courtesy Neil Carleton]] ...Ranjit Singh in 1838. One of each, as well as a number of other important Indian guns, are on permanent display.
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• Mehar Singh
  Few names in the Indian Air Force evoke such awe and inspiration as the mention of Air Commodore Me ...ted with the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). The only such award to the Indian Air Force ever.
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• Brutally Massacred: Kashmiri Sikhs
  STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM INDIAN STYLE ...ed & six wounded in Poshkreeri village of the Kashmir valley -------- Even Indian news magazines ridicule the orchestrated New Delhi Parliament attack tamash
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• Chittisinghpura murder of Sikhs : Letter from SAD (A)
  ...Sikhs and Muslims, and also alarmed President Clinton of the situation in Indian held Kashmir. ...Saxsena, having carried out his macabre task successfully, was posted to Army Head quarters, New Delhi.
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• Shaheed Bibis of Operation Blue Star
  ...e of their Holy Temple the [[Harmandar Sahib]] in opposition to the Indian Army's storming of the Temple -- code named [[Operation Blue Star]] are known to
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• Chung tong
  ...he capital Gangtok, at an elevation of 1,700 metres (5,600 ft). The Indian army has a major forward base in the town including a medical centre.
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• Karam Singh
  ...ik Karam Singh, was born on 15 September 1915 in Barnala, Punjab . He is a Indian military war hero who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra India's highest wart Karam Singh retired from Indian Army as Honorary Captain. He is survived by his wife Gurdial Kaur.
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• Major Bhupinder Singh
  ...ple of personal sacrifice and bravery in the best traditions of the Indian Army.
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• Havildar Fateh Singh
  ...h was given the Hony, rank of Captain for his bravery. He retired from the Army on 3rd June, 1967 and went back to his native village.
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• Major Harminder Singh
  ...ter example of the spirit of Service Before Self - the motto of the Indian Army - where Major Harminder Pal Singh, despite having suffered grevious injurie Taken from A website about Indian military forces
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• Tejdeep Singh Rattan
  {{p|File:Tejdeepsinghrattan.jpg|Captain Rattan, United States Army (2010)}} ...f [[Sikhism]], was granted special exemptions last year (2010) regarding Army Regulation 600-20 that permit him to wear a beard and a [[turban]] while
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• The Sant syndrome
  ...nment after the military action on the Golden Temple complex by the Indian army in 1984. ...artyr, and various photographs, some showing him battling with the Indian army, are hung in many gurdwaras and Sikh homes in Punjab, and no doubt all
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• Captain Amarinder Singh
  ...st Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. In 1980, he won a seat in the Lok Sabha for the first ti ==Army career==
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• June 17
  ...b. Sikhs observed "Ardas Diwas (prayer day)" to protest against the Indian Army's attack on Sri darbar Sahib. On this day congregations were held in Gurudw
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• Nanak in J & K
  ...es,In 1948, the Gurudwara Pathar Sahib's maintenance was taken over by the Army. ...urdwara Sahib "An institution run by the Army". As a kind courtesy of the Army, STD and CSD facilities are available inside the Gurdwara premises. All the
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• Clinton's thoughts on the Chittisinghpura Massacre
  ...were killed has come to be known as the [[Chittisinghpura massacre]]. The Indian government blamed it on the Pakistan-based Lashkar e Taiyba terrorist group ...hail Malik of Sialkot, interviewed by a New York Times correspondent in an Indian prison, has said he had no regret that he participated in the massacre, whi
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• Bhinderanwale declared Martyr by Taksal
  ...ale was martyred at 8:45 am on June 6, 1984 while fighting with the Indian army at Akal Takht. ...ale was martyred at 8.45 am on June 6, 1984 while fighting with the Indian army at Akal Takht. However Harnam Singh as well as other Singhs of Taksal decli
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• 1984
  ...India, {{w|Indira Gandhi}}. At the time of the operation, close to 100,000 army troops had been deployed throughout [[Punjab]]. ...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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• Jathedar Teja Singh Akarpuri
  ...e 24th Sikh Battalion of the Indian Army the following year. Leaving the Army, he became a patvanin the revenue department of the Punjab at the end of
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• Battle of Chillianwala
  ...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 The East India Company responded by forming an Army of the Punjab under Sir Hugh Gough. Gough wished to take the field immediat
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• Sikhs & Indian Independence
  '''WHY SIKHS SHOULDN'T CELEBRATE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE'''<br> ...ear about our nationhood, but it is denied by the [[Indian]] State and the Indian political class which are not prepared to allow us basic rights.
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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 In 1908-09, the Canadian government mooted the idea of transferring all Indian settlers of British Columbia, over 90 per cent of whom were Sikhs, to Hondu
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• Diwan Singh Kalepani
  ...I. In the Gurudwara, Diwan Singh used to recite his poems and discuss with Indian people the problems of slavery and freedom. During the Second World War whe
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• Operation Woodrose
  ...rship of the congress party. In the Punjab the operation caused the Indian Army to became very unpopular. <ref>{{cite book |title=Politics of genocide: Pun ...on some occasions were embaressed when just a handful of Sikhs would repel army units, however on the whole the superior numbers of troops and their super
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• Lords Henry and Charles Hardinge
  ==Army career== ...bsequently he was appointed deputy-quartermaster-general in the Portuguese army and was present at many of the the battles of the [[Peninsular War]].<ref n
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• 1984- Some true facts
  * 1947 Pak/Indian Independence. All laws and rules will be done with the agreement of Sikhs. Indian Consitition will be pbulished
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• July 1
  1983 By now Indian Government had given gallantry awards to over 50 policemen for killing Sikh The attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian army struck the Sikh world like a thunderbolt. All shades of Canadian Sikhs came
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• Shaheed Major Baldev Singh Ghumman
  ...t was left saddened and shocked with the attack on Golden Temple by Indian Army in summer of 1984.
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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 ...Allied forces in Malaya and Singapore to the Japanese in 1942. Unlike many Indian soldiers who had served in the Allied forces, who joined the Japanese backe
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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 Gurumukh Singh came under the influence of the Indian revolutionaries who had set up the Ghadar Party in America and had been act
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• Labh Singh Saini
  ...examination from the high school there. In 1914, he took up service in the army as a clerk. For this reason, he was sometimes also known as Babu Labh Singh ...district, participated in the Civil Disobedience movement launched by the Indian National Congress. He was taken into custody in Delhi, but was released aft
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• Battle of Gujarat
  ...February 21, 1849, between British forces and the Sikhs. The depleted Sikh army, weakened by lack of supplies, was defeated by the Bengal and Bombay Armies ...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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• The forgotten history of Sikh troops in China
  The lifting of the siege was one of only several key instances where Indian troops left an unlikely mark on the course of Chinese history in the early The British also dispatched Indian regiments to China leading up towards the Opium War, which ended with the
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• Amir ul Imla
  ...sive designs of Ranjit Singh who, he says, "inspired by his high position, army, artillery and treasury, wishes to place the whole of the Punjab under his ...he action he took against the unruly people (f. 83) such as despatching an army to subdue a rebel, Khan Beg Tiwana, who was formerly his subordinate (ff. 7
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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 ...s a gift to royal visitors and friends. It now a popular confection in the Indian Subcontinent. However this story may be of dubious authenticity since Diwan
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• Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh - A Tribute
  ...herwise, has now got himself a prime place in the glittering pages of the Indian history. ...e of a large number of entrants of that time from [[Punjab]] in the Indian Army thus proved only one point that but for the presence in large number of the
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• Taraknath Das
  ...stablished by Maulvi Barkatulla and S. L. Joshi appears to be the earliest Indian organization with some political purpose. It did not survive Barkatulla's d ...He is mentioned in the Circular of Freedom as one of the treasurers of the Indian Association, and not long after that periodical came to an end he started h
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• When Romans met the Sikhs
  ...as I had switched on the BBC World News, I had heard the announcement that Indian Air Force had started an offensive on the Kargil peaks and there were fears “Oh yes”, we said, “Of Course, we have a bigger army”, we said proudly.
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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. ...ia. The British loss amounted to 694 killed and 1,721 wounded. The British army, having sustained heavy losses in previous actions, was unprepared to launc
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• Bolowali Encounter
  ...unter is the encounter between 5 Khalistan Armed Force soldiers and 12,000 Indian Armed Force. All 5 were shaheed but caused much damage to the enemy. The ge ...ed many innocent bus passengers and burned train stations. Even though the Indian Security Forces were provided with many modern weapons, as well as armoured
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• India Secret Poceedings
  '''India Secret Poceedings''' (1834-1856), a manuscript series of Indian records at the India Office Library, London, succeeding Bengal Secret and P ...nd Intelligence Reports on Punjab affairs and statistical data on the Sikh army and its dispositions (1843);
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• July 5
  ...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 1984 Nine Sikhs hijacked an Indian Airliner to Lahore (1984).
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• Battle of Aliwal
  ...border with the Punjab. Eventually, the increasingly turbulent Khalsa, the army of the Sikh kingdom, was goaded into crossing the Sutlej River and invading ...ej Singh eventually retreated. Hostilities temporarily ceased. The British army was shaken by its heavy losses. Hardinge sought to relieve Gough of his com
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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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• General Reginald Dyer
  His next posting was to the Indian Army, joining the Bengal Staff Corps as a Lieutenant in 1887. Soon he was back s ...orce, first known as the East Persia Cordon, was a force of British Indian Army troops which was posted to prevent enemy infiltration from Persia into Afgh
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• Vasakha Singh
  ...n of the revolutionary Ghadr party, carrying reports of the conferences of Indian immigrants held in the States of Oregon and Washington, reached the hands o
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• Kashmiri Pandits at Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Darbar
  ...the country by the exigencies of times. They spread over the whole of the Indian sub-continent. With the break down of the Moghul Empire a number of kingshi ...Maharaja Ranjit Singh. After the Maharaja, general disorder prevailed. The army became restive and then openly rebellious. Many prominent Sirdars were kill
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• Baldev Singh
  Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, who represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the pr When a British Cabinet Mission visited India in 1946 to negotiate with Indian leaders about the future constitution of the country, Baldev Singh was chos
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• Khalistan Commando Force
  ...ndranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan]], clashed repeatedly with the [[Indian Army]] forces during the 1980s and early 1990s as well as the Punjab police. The organization primarily battled Indian military forces, especially in revenge for [[Operation Blue Star]], the gov
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• Kamboj
  The Kambojs are a Northern Indian ethnic tribe that inhabits the Punjab, also related to Ancient Persia and V ...a well known '''Kshatriya tribe''' of Indo-Aryans, stated to have had both Indian as well as Iranian affinities and mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts and e
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• July 29
  ...ar Sahib, Amritsar. In protest, he had returned his Padam Sri honor to the Indian government. He returned his Padam Shri award when the Indian government attacked the Golden Temple.
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• Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  ...he Sikh soldiers and recommended their wholesale enlistment in the British army. Thus he sought to pacify the common mass of the disbanded soldiery and att ...in action on 4 July 1857 while defending the Lucknow residency during the Indian rising.
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• Sant Karam Singh
  ...and spent most of his time in meditation. Upon the dissolution of the Sikh army after the annexation of the Punjab to British India in 1849, Karam Singh jo ...ding to an eyewitness account quoted in Martin R. Montgomery's book, ''The Indian Empire,'' "Enormous treasures were looted, and each individual soldier ama
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• Lieutenant General Maharaja Yadavinder Singh
  ...s and Panjab Universities, was the last hereditary ruler of the east while Indian princely state of Patiala. Born on 7 January 1913 during the high noon of t ...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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• Sikh Regiment
  ...Indian Army. It is currently the highest decorated regiment in 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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• Second Battle of Panipat
  ...forces of Samrat Hem Chander Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, and the army of Mughal emperor Akbar, on November 5, 1556. ...nd himself a vendor of saltpetre at Rewari,[10] he rose to become Chief of Army and Prime Minister[11][12] under the command of Adil Shah Suri of the Suri
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• Mohan Singh Oberoi
  Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi (August 15, 1900—May 3, 2002) was a renowned Indian hotelier widely regarded as the father of 20th century India's hotel busine ...siness and, in recognition of his services to the industry in time of war, Indian authorities bestowed on him the title of Rai Bahadur. In another two years,
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• July 27
  ...held at New York city, in the wake of June 5 and 6, 1984, when the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar. A group of Sikhs in New York ...al community in the clearest possible terms of Sikh aspirations and of the Indian government's perfidy,
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• Poet Prabhjot Kaur
  Singh continued his service in the Army and started writing novels which became very popular. Prabhjot Kaur kept on ...s, she has been translated into Greek, Arabic, Russian, Hungarian and many Indian regional languages.
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• Sukhdev Singh Sukha
  ...kh militants used to weaken the government and to use Indian Money against Indian Security forces. ...d", ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', [[August 11]], [[1986]].</ref> According to Indian intelligence sources, Vaidya had been the number four assassination target
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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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• Siege of Multan
  ...the two officers began to ride out of the citadel, a soldier from Mulraj's army attacked Vans Agnew. This may have been the sign for a concerted attack, as ...General of Bengal, Lord Dalhousie and the Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, Sir Hugh Gough, who did not wish to expose European troops to a campaign d
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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 ...hi-Irwin pact of 1931. He along with other Akalis remained a member of the Indian National Congress till 1940, with dual membership of Akali Dal and Congress
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• Gandhi / Longowal Accord
  2. Army recruitment 2.1 All citizens of the country have the right to enroll in the Army and merit will remain the criterion for selection.
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• Master Mota Singh
  ...east of Jalandhar. His grandfather, Sahib singh was a soldier in the Sikh Army and had fought against the British. After passing the matriculation examina ...ased from jail in December 1919, on the eve of the Amritsar session of the Indian national congress, which he attended. He joined the Akali movement for the
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• Thakur Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...ade. He was a distinguished scholar of Persian and Punjabi, well versed in Indian as well as in Muslim lore Because of his independent views, Thakur Singh wa ...akur Singh's sole concern. To win support for him, he visited secretly the Indian princely states and the Sikh shrines. Major Evans Bell's book, The Annexati
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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 ...nd then at the Government College in Lahore, Arjan Singh joined the infant Indian Air Force in 1938. He was commissioned from the RAF College Cranwell on 23
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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 .... So the standing Army in India was immediately constituted into the First Indian Corps with the Lahore and Meerut Divisions on its order-of-battle, as they
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• Bhai Arvinderjeet Singh ‘Goldy’
  ...Operation Blue Star, the state of Punjab still had to face the rage of the Indian Government’s security forces. During Operation Blue Star, Goldy was about “…Goldy, you are so good looking… and the army is now stationed in Punjab; let a few days pass by…”
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• SIR JAMES ABBOTT
  ...ieutenant in the Bengal artillery in 1823. In November 1830, he joined the army of the Indus, under Sir John Keane, for the invasion of Afghanistan. In 184 3. Buckland, C.E., Dictionary of Indian Biography. London,1906
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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 With the partition of India in 1947 into India and Pakistan the Indian state of Punjab was also split in two. Hindus and Sikhs including Mair Rajp
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• Jammu
  '''Jammu''' is one of the three regions comprising the [[Indian]] state of {{Wiki|Jammu and Kashmir}}. Jammu borders Kashmir to the north, ...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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• Simranjit Singh Mann
  ...made on Mr. Mann by a gunman associated with a politician in the opposing Indian National Congress Party. However, no charges were ever brought against the ...dia]]. However on November 3, 1999, long after Mr. Mann was elected to the Indian Parliament, the [[Punjab]] and [[Haryana]] High Court, ordered the Union of
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• June 19
  ...ed States of America (USA) for the independence of India. Its members were Indian residents, primarily Sikhs, settled in USA. Their prime objective was to ac ...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
  ...red Myanmar as a part of British India that has cultural affinity with the Indian people. But to my surprise, Burmese people have no common heritage with Ind Yangon (Rangoon) University was among the top ten Indian Universities before the British divided India and declared Burma as an inde
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• Siharfian Hari Singh Nalwa
  ...cript, describing the valorous deeds of Hari Singh Nalva (1793-1837), an army general of the Sikh times. Inspired by the elder Qadar Yar's 2. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, 6 Vols., Delhi, 1995.
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• Kaur Singh Chakkar
  ...of hostilities with India, the Pakistan Government had banned the entry of Indian officials not only in Kashmir but also in the adjoining districts of West P ...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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• Operation Shudeekaran
  ...of an operation called [[Operation Wood Rose]] carried out by the Indian Army in the days and months after the attack on the [[Harmandar Sahib]] in 1984 After many on their lists escaped their dragnet the army was left with only the relatives of those who they wished to capture. The r
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• Joseph Davey Cuningham
  ...he reached Delhi and joined the Corps of Sappers and Miners in the Bengal Army. In 1837, he was appointed assistant to Colonel (afterwards Sir) Claude Wa ...nt the earlier mistakes from continuing to add to the distrust of the Sikh army from feeling suspicious of British intentions, in which situation the war w
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• Sukhdev Singh Jalwehra
  ...Three, English class three and Hindi class three, etc. His rank, trade and army number were CFN/elect. 7111631. He was discharged on the 6th of March 1976. ...ra handing over a historic memorandum with Sikh demands (Khalistan) to the Indian embassy of Brussels.]]
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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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• 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 ...Africa in the first stages of the war and later in Italy and Burma, where Indian soldiers have won for their regiments new battle honours which will never b
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• Operation Blue Star: Detailed account
  ...freedom, and even explicitly mentioned in all constitutions, including the Indian constitution as Freedom of religion, was not of importance in India. There are many reasons why the Indian government attacked the Golden Temple, but among them the main reasons for
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• Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan
  ...s in [[Pakistan]]. With the recent relaxation of the visa requirements for Indian citizens, more and more visitor now travel to Pakistan every year<ref>[http ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer
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• Jagjit Singh Chauhan
  ...elebration of the Martyrdom of Guru Arjan) and many soldiers of the Indian Army. ...dia and hoisted the flag of Khalistan at a gurdwara at Anandpur Sahib. The Indian government raised a storm when he was allowed to enter USA using the cance
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• Himachal Pradesh
  After Indian Independence, a Union Territory of Hill states was created. It primarily co Many young men from Himachal serve in the Indian Army and have played a significant role in the National defense. Dharamsala has
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• Saragarhi mentioned in the London Gazette
  ...heroic devotion which has never been surpassed ha the annals of the Indian Army. *Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army, India, Allied Publishers (1990) ISBN 817023140X
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• Moujiya Encounter
  ...r there was not a single day when the Jujharoos from Babbar Khalsa and the Indian forces faced each other in the battlefield. There are many historical encou Indian Security Forces had flooded Punjab. The Central Army, Central Reserve Police Force, National Guard, Border Security Force, RAW,
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• Ghadar Movement
  ...ese government protested against these atrocities against their nationals, Indian goverment did nothing. The Canadian government further tightened the entry ...Khalsa in Punjabi and Svedesh Sevak in Urdu. These activities awakened the Indian immigrants. Persons like Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, Harnam Singh Tundilat, Ud
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• Chithi Singhpora Massacre
  ...ia. But the tragedy has not only placed a question mark on the capacity of Indian Government to apprehend the culprits andprovide protection to the minoritie ...d and are farmers on small scale. A few are working in different civil and army camps as labourers to earn, make both ends meet. No proper education is imp
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• Bhai Labh Singh Rajasansi
  ..., Raja Sansi. Sardar Dhaja Singh was a soldier in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army. In 1849 when the British rule was in place then the Sikh Unit was abolish ...gh was under court martial and then he was sacked from his position in the army.
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• Nadir Shah
  ...imself came out to oppose the invaders at the hanks of the river Ravi, his army was just brushed aside (January, 1739). ...st February, Ambala on the 7th, and Karnal on the 12th Fehruary. The Delhi army had been alerted in Novemher on the fall of Kabul.
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• Gurdwara Nirankari, Rawalpindi
  ...t 160,000 have already laid down their lives for this movement. The Indian army attacked Harmandar Sahib with tanks, guns and air force. As a result of thi
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• Neha Dhupia
  ...] [[Sikh]] born on August 27, 1980 in Cochin, Kerala, [[India]]. She is an Indian model, actress and former Femina Miss India 2002. ...mother Manpinder. She has a brother, Hardeep. Born in Cochin, Neha went to Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, [[New Delhi]] and completed her Graduation in H
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• Manbir Singh Chaheru
  ...ered. This incident left a deep mark on Manbir Singh's thoughts. A retired army officer Giani Joginder Singh who was also son-in-law of Manbir Singh's aunt ....com/lofiversion/index.php/t16981.html</ref> and fought against the Indian army until his death ( June 9th 1984) in [[Operation Blue Star]] <ref> http://w
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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}}]] ...he Indian commander whose comprehensive defeat of the Western [[Pakistan]] Army in 1971 led to the creation of [[Bangladesh]]. He was born in Jhelum, [[Bri
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• ISI former head says Sikh community gives him "next-to-Guru" status?
  ...of LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), the list also carries the names of five Indian Sikhs belonging to the separatist Khalistani movement (the name Khalistan, ...ggle for an independent Punjab, or Khalistan, began. It was, no doubt, the Indian military operation inside this most sacred of Sikh sites that triggered a v
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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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• Rulers of Ladakh
  ...history saw many invasions. Namgyal who was a great warrior raised his own Army and became the ruler of Ladakh, by ousting those in power and beheading the ...had established for himself the reputation of being unconquerable and his army got ready to attack Skardo. After fighting on the route Zorawar reached Ska
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• Sikhs around 1900
  ...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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• Sardar Nanu Singh Saini
  '''Sardar Nanu Singh [[Saini]]''' was a Sikh army general and a well-known [[Jagir|jagirdar]] in [[Phulkian Misl|Phulkian riy ...b</ref> Nanu Singh [[Saini]] became among his most trusted lieutenants and army generals. As a reward of Nanu Singh Saini's help in his liberation from the
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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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• Gurbux Singh Theathi
  In 1947 he joined the Indian Army on short service commission in the Army ordinance core.
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• Swami Anandghana
  ...Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until the collection perished in the Army attack on the Golden Temple premises in 1984. ...f the text, the former contains considerable supplementary material on old Indian philosophical systems and religious practices in which context the commenta
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• Udham Singh Nagoke
  ...But he stayed in the army only for a very short time. Irked by the strict army regimen, he took out his discharge in 1920. ...ne year. He participated in the civil disobedience movement started by the Indian National Congress and served another year in custody. In 1935, he was elect
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• Bana Singh P.V.C.
  ...abi Sikh family, at Kadyal in Jammu and Kashmir. He enrolled in the Indian Army on 6 January 1969 into the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (JAK LI). He was ...f the Kargil War, he was the only PVC awardee who was still serving in the Army.
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• History of Jammu and Kashmir
  ...Ranjit Singh]] evicted the Pathans from Kashmir with the help of the Dogra Army of Jammu. '''The [[Sikhs]] ruled Kashmir till their defeat by the British.' ...u later agreed to a poll. Pakistan contested accession claiming the Indian Army illegally entered Kashmir.
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• Puran Singh Bajwa
  ...ee-star general rank) in October 1984 as Director, Medical Services of the Indian Air Force, the highest military rank available to physician officers. ...hed peacetime service. He has also been a past President and Fellow of The Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
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• Sikhs Massacre averted on the visit of Obama
  SIKHS ACCUSE ARMY OF HARASSMENT (Anantnag), Nov 6: Massive protests erupted here on Saturday against Army following alleged harassment of the members of minority Sikh community in H
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• When Sikhs captured the Red Fort
  ...ly returned to Afghanistan, never to come back again. The vast area of the Indian subcontinent lying between the Indus and the Yamuna was free from foreign r ...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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• Gurdev Singh Debu
  ...Commander Gurdev Singh Debu". He participated in several battles with the Indian Government forces after that. ...from Bhai Sahib and his Shahidi had inspired thousands of Sikh youth. The Indian Security Forces were shocked that they could inflict so much horror on Gurd
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• Babbar Khalsa
  ...] (meaning ''Land of the Pure'') by its proponents, would comprise [[India|Indian]] territory in the [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]], and [[Punjabi language|Punjab ...roversial, and today he is accepted to have been shot in a gun battle with Indian police, with Canada's [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] network rep
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• Battle Of Kargil
  ...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 ...ibing the culture and chivalry of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's erstwhile Khalsa Army, the ethos and traditions of the regiment got formalised with the ' Regimen
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• July 23
  ...eir land of birth. However, no company provided such a service between the Indian and Canadian ports. As a result, many Punjabis were stranded for months in ...f any freedom figting organization. However, it gave a unique twist to the Indian history and freedom struggle in India. The Ghadar journal helped to give it
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• Ramdasia Sikhs
  ...ame significant.<ref>{{cite book |title=Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign |first=Daniel |last=Marston |publisher=Greenwood Publ ...War of 1971|1971]], the [[Hyderabad Police Action]] of 1948 and the [[Sino-Indian War|Chinese aggression in 1962]]. It has also served in [[Sri Lanka]], wher
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• SVAMI ANANDGHANA
  ...f the text, the former contains considerable supplementary material on old Indian philosophical systems and religious practices in which context the commenta
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• Sir David Ochterlony
  ...ss of the Order of the Bath (GBC) (the first officer of the British Indian Army to receive the award), was a soldier and diplomat. The son of David Ochterl
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• The Sepoy Mutiny - 1857
  ...ft the warriors were soon being asked to fill new regiments in the British army to keep the Afghans at bay. Ninety Years later when India became independent Indian leaders started referring to the Mutiny of 1857 as "The first war of Inde
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• Dakkhani Sikhs
  ...ararigal. According to Captain A.H. Bingley, Sikhs A Handbook for Indian Army, 1918, their total number, evidently based on the 1911 census, was 4,637.
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• Lieutenant Jasbir Singh Tatla
  ...ing Officer. An uncle of his, Sukhdev Singh, was a brigadier in the Indian Army.
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• 1839 A.D - 1849 A.D. The turbulent years
  ...an Officers to write training manuals, train and even command parts of his army. Foundries were set up and cannons cast (his european doctor was put in cha ...ather. He had proven himself a valiant warrior and was a favorite with the army. Having fought in several battles he was then serving as the governor of th
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• Operation Blue Star: News reports
  ...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 [ ...akingsly scrutinized the details of the tragic event and narrated that the Indian state did not want to merely arrest some individuals but to break the backb
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• Gerard Anstruther Wathen
  ...he Balkans and Anatolia on archaeological research. In 1905, he joined the Indian Education Service, becoming professor of English at Government College, Lah ...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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• Historic Nihangs
  On January 4, 1804 AD, Nihang Gulab Singh met Colonel Ochterlony of the East Indian Company at city of Karnal. Gulab Singh appealed to place him under their pr Shiv Karpal Singh sided with the British in the Indian mutiny in 1857 AD assisting the Imperial Forces against the Indians.
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• G.S. Sandhu
  ...cademy (known then as JSW) in June 1953 and was commissioned in the Indian Army in June 1957. During service held various command and staff appointments. S
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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 ...e worked in a lumber mill at Bridalville, Oregon. He attended a meeting of Indian immagrants at Portland in the beginning of 1912 which led to the formation
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• Mai Bhago Fauj
  ...retired Punjabi Colonel .Having taken an early retirement from the Indian army in 1981 to manage personal property assets in Punjab.
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• Mazhabi
  ...gth and self sacrifice in the Sikh, Khalsa, British Indian army and Indian army. The Mazhabis were designated as a martial race by British officials. "Mart ...British recruited heavily from the Mazhabi sikhs. On the out break of the Indian mutiny in 1857, the British immediately recruited 12,000 Mazhabis to crush
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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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• The siege of Poonch
  ...eged for about 12 months. It was only due to operation link-up launched by Indian forces during October-November 1948 when the besieged city of Poonch was fi ...o the burning of an important Chanjal bridge in the base of Haji Peer, the Indian offensive brigade could not move towards Poonch. Only Brigadier Sen, Lt. Co
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• Old News 2
  ...is residence in Shaheed Bunga Street on the back side of Sri Darbar Sahib. Indian forces had initiated their attack on Sri Darbar Sahib at 4:45am on the morn ...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
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• Lions of the Great Wars
  ...the armed forces, yet the [[Sikh]]s only made up less than 2% of the total Indian population. By the end of the war 100,000 Sikh volunteers joined the Briti The average Indian battalion had around 764 men when they landed in France, but by November 19
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• Old News 10
  ...orating burkas are part of a push to build a more diverse Australian Army. Army chiefs are hoping to attract bigger numbers...}} ...n for Minorities in India, asked why were gallantry awards given to Indian Army officers after Operation Bluestar. "They were given because they had killed
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• Victoria Cross
  ...cipients of this high honour. From 1912 until 1947, 40 VCs were awarded to Indian soldiers. Below is a list of the main recipients: ...hest, and fell beside his gun. In hand-to-hand fighting, their British and Indian officer, and all the Havildars of his company were soon either killed or wo
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• Sikhism in Myanmar
  ...red Myanmar as a part of British India that has cultural affinity with the Indian people. But to my surprise, Burmese people have no common heritage with Ind Yangon (Rangoon) University was among the top ten Indian Universities before the British divided India and declared Burma as an inde
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• The Eleven Sikh Bands
  ...a''': Led by Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia , area of Jullundar Doab with an army of 10,000 regular horsemen. They held territory in the neighborhood of Kapu ...hah Abdali's son Zaman Shah prepared to attack India, he collected a large army and had special alloy guns made. But he was defeated in a battle with Dal
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• Finding the truth in the Chittisinghpora Massacre
  Her only son, Zahoor Ahmad Dalal, was among the five persons killed by the Army in a fake encounter at Pathribal village and dubbed as foreign militants re ...ow that he too was among the five people killed in a fake encounter by the army in Pathribal.”
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• Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
  ...trial that began on 5 November 1945 at Red Fort, and was important in the Indian independence negotiations. ...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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• Letter dated June 2 1984
  ..., 1984 - the day after the assault on the [[Golden Temple complex]] by the Indian military forces began. The attack continued for several days, resulting in, ...84-operation-bluestar-eyewitness-accounts.html Eye witness accounts of the Army action]
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• Sardar Ajit Singh
  ...ches in Hindustani, broadcasting to Indian soldiers serving in the British Army in North Africa. His speeches were aimed at raising an [[Azad Hind Fauj]] ...re, with a view to establishing contact with his comrades in India through Indian traders and seamen. His activities alarmed the British government. Consider
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• Khalistan Liberation Force
  ...ding Sikh freedom fighting organisations that was especially active in the Indian state of Punjab throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was the form ...tration at his village. The attack on holy Sri Darbar Sahib by the Indian Army, under the orders incidentally of a Sikh, polarised the opinions and mindse
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• Dal Khalsa
  ...[[Sikh]]s in the northwestern part of South Asia. The first [[Khalsa]] army formed and led by the creator of the Khalsa, [[Guru Gobind Singh]] (1 ...and their grand army Dull Khalsa Gee, or the Army of the State." Among the Indian writers, Sohan Lal Suri, ' UmdatutTwarikh refers to it thus: "They [the Sik
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• World Muslim Sikh Federation
  ...rnationally recognized human and legal right of self-determination and the Indian government's refusal to recognize the legitimacy of such demands. ...ission those who talk of freedom from India and justice for the crimes the Indian state and security forces have committed has resulted in a deadlock for whi
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• Maujia Encounter
  ...r there was not a single day when the Jujharoos from Babbar Khalsa and the Indian forces faced each other in the battlefield. There are many historical encou Indian Security Forces had flooded Punjab. The Central Army, Central Reserve Police Force, National Guard, Border Security Force, RAW,
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• Nadir Shah's Invasion
  ...Mughals to invade India in 1521, and seize power at Delhi by defeating the army of the Lodhi Sultan Ibrahim at Panipat in 1526. towards December 1719, Moha ...imself came out to oppose the invaders at the hanks of the river Ravi, his army was just brushed aside (January, 1739).
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• Shastar
  * '''Gurj''' or Mace: Indian maces have great variations in their shape. From simply curved steel bars t *'''[[Khanda]]''' - This is a typical Indian sword and has a broad, straight blade, usually widening towards the point,
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• Joseph Davey Cunningham
  ...eached [[Delhi]] and joined the Corps of Sappers and Miners in the Bengal Army. In 1837, he was appointed assistant to Colonel (afterwards Sir) Claude Wa ...nt the earlier mistakes from continuing to add to the distrust of the Sikh army from feeling suspicious of British intentions, in which situation the war w
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• Bollywood’s Hidden Agenda ?
  ...g into a bizarre medley of colorful clothes never seen worn by the average Indian. ...ing the explosives. At last he wets his pants and is assisted by the brave Indian hero to jump off the platform.
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• Gadar Movement
  ...ed against mis-treatment against their nationals, the British Goernment of Indian did nothing. The Canadian government further tightened the entry of Indians ...Khalsa in Punjabi and Svedesh Sevak in Urdu. These activities awakened the Indian immigrants. Persons like Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, Harnam Singh Tundilat, Ud
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• Fall of Mirpur
  On the 4th of November, 1947, heavy enforcements of the Pakistan Army took position on the ridge known as Palan-Da-Galla and also started heavy f The morale of the state Garrison got a big boost when on November 12, the Indian Air Force effectively bombed and strafed the enemy positions around Mirpur
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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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• Avtar Singh Khanda
  ...f many Sikhs that the two deaths were linked. Beyond these two deaths, the Indian media drew direct comparisons to the assassinations of Bhai Parmjit Singh P ...i Avtar Singh was on the radar of Indian agencies for many years. In 2015, Indian media prominently reported that Bhai Avtar Singh had been named in a dossie
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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
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• Anglo Sikh War I
  ...ment the possibilities of a military occupation of the Punjab. English and Indian infantry reinforcement began arriving at each of the frontier posts of Firo ...e River Sutlej. In November 1845, he informed the Duke of Wellington, "the army will be equal to any operation. I should be sorry to have it called to the
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• Sardar Man Singh, Rariala
  Man Singh Rariala, was a was a soldier in Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s army." He was attached to Raja Suchet Singh`s force. He took part in the capture ...ted manager of the Harmandir Sahib. He was a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, a Provincial Darbari and a member of the Municipal Committee of Amr
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Koh-i-Noor diamond
  ...ndia]] several times. They not only randomly massacred thousand innocent [[Indian]]s, but also looted her property and honor. In 1739 the Persian chieftain N ...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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• CHUHAR SINGH
  ...Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire.p.123. Macmillan and Co.London. </ref>. He was originally came from The total strength of Sikh army, [[Dal Khalsa]], was 50,000.The Sikhs lay encamped in three divisions. The
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• Sikhs in the Eyes of Others
  ...fond of martyrdom. They fight courageously and are capable of defeating an army much bigger than them.” ...r control. The Indian army was retreating back very fast and the Pakistani army was going forward with great speed.
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• Teja Singh Swatantar
  ...opposed to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in May 1937 as a nominee of the Indian National Congress.
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• Gurdwara Rawalsar Sahib
  ...s. Rawalsar (also spelled Rewalsar) is a town in the Mandi district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh about about 15-25Km west of Mandi. ...believe that no one spoke of independence until the aimless and confused "Indian Mutiny" of 1857.
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• Nalwa and NWFP
  ...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 ...hemselves superior to the people on the Indian side. They looked down upon Indian Muslims and contemptuously referred to them as Hindko. Their pride was pric
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• Old News 5
  ...-news/first-ever-sikh-film-festival-be-organised-amritsar-0|The first ever Indian Sikh film festival to be organised at Amritsar|http://www.sikhnet.com/files ...ed in Sikh Temple Shooting|Image:Sacramento 3 sml.jpg|Two men attending an Indian cricket match in south Sacramento were shot - one fatally - by two men who
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• Gurcharan Singh Tohra
  Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have c ...my. Recently, the Army revealed that Tohra and Longowal surrendered to the Army willingly. He also failed to release the ''SGPC White Paper'' on Operation
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• Porus
  ...River (Hydaspes) and Chenab River (Acesines), in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. He is only mentioned in Greek sources. “..This Herakles is held in special honour by the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe, who possess two large cities, Methora and Cleisobora” Arrian, Ind
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• The Indian Ghadar Movement South East Asian, Japanese and Canadian Connection
  ...eading Congress personalities during this phase. The Indian people and the Indian subjects, who shared the view of freeing India by revolutionary means, have ...e termed a “Second Revolution” which undoubtedly marked a new trend in the Indian nationalist movement.
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• Sikhism in Thailand
  ...relatives whose surname were Madan, Narula and chawla. They were the first Indian diaspora 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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• Jammu Kashmir Ladakh
  ...d but riveting -page chapter about the violent happenings of 1947-49. Most Indian historians have ignored that unfortunate period, while Pâkistânis have pu ...ttle fought in Jammû province after 1947, making this book a must-read for army officers as well as those interested in the history of Pâkistân's wars wi
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• Babar's Invasion
  ...was to get a chance to loot the riches of India. These 12,000 men, a tiny army with which to attempt the conquest of Ibrahim Lodhi's realm, first devasted ...ce. Nowhere else in contemporary literature are the issues in the medieval Indian situation comprehended with such clarity or presented in tones of greater u
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• When Sikhs conquered Delhi
  The vast area of the Indian subcontinent lying between the [[Indus]] and the [[Yamuna]] thus became fre 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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• The massacre at Chattisinghpora
  ...apersons. "How could we know who committed the crime?" he asks. "They wore Army uniforms, and spoke Urdu, but we recognised none of them." Karamjit Singh, ...ken out. "Terrorists used to come to the village regularly," he says. "The Army used to patrol the village, but had never carried out searches or interroga
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• General Labh Singh
  ...te of Sant [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]] and he had fought against Indian army during [[Operation Bluestar]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=wA3yjdg ...ng for faith and nation By Cynthia Keppley Mahmood]</ref>. Arrested by the army after the operation<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ULkTAAAAIBAJ&
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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. ...s and historians Among them the counted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a leading Indian savant of the day.
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• Rise of British Sikhism
  ...ffort has since been recognised in official memorials. Many of the wounded Indian soldiers were sent to makeshift hospitals in England, and the Government pa ..., Gravesend, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Sikhs contributed to the agitation for Indian independence, but were aghast at the British decision in 1947 to partition
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• Shaheed Bhai Tarsem Singh
  ...ost beloved Sikh shrine Sri Akal Takhat Sahib with Tanks and missiles. The army stole precious artefacts from the Sikh Reference Library. The Sikh youth we ...news of what happened because Bhai Pappu Gora had more informers then the Indian security forces. The reason is selfless sewa. A kind hearted police man sec
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• Harjinder Singh Jinda
  ...Force]] (including its chief [[General Labh Singh]]) were involved in the Indian History's biggest daylight bank robbery of the Punjab National Bank, Miller ...t (their idea being; to use public funds, stored in Indian banks, against Indian Security forces, as they highlighted the helplessness of the Government's
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• July 24
  ...eir land of birth. However, no company provided such a service between the Indian and Canadian ports. As a result, many Punjabis were stranded for months in ...f any freedom figting organization. However, it gave a unique twist to the Indian history and freedom struggle in India. The Ghadar journal helped to give it
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• Harike
  ...ria and Eastern Europe. Besides the birds, Harike became the home for rare Indian species like the test dine turtle and the smooth otter. Both are listed in ...he gravity of the water hyacinth threat in Harike, decided to approach the Army for help. He formally handed over the task to Vajra Corps in August 1999.
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• Aurangzeb
  ...ra the royal treasury at Delhi. Dara hastily used the treasure to raise an army which would soon prove to be no match for the well trained professional fo ...Mogul fortune of his forbearers in endless wars in the Deccan suporting an army of more than a million men.
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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 1983: The Indian CRPF force attacked a camp of the fundamentalist Sikh group, the Nihangs, a
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• Babbar Akali Movement
  ...lis, babar meaning lion. Their targets were the British officers and their Indian informers. They were strongly attached to their Sikh faith and shared an in ...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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• Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala
  ...well known Sikh farmers in the town of Attari (Few kms from the border of Indian and Pakistan punjab in India) . As a child he was educated in Gurmukhi and ...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
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• Banga Saini's
  ...ajan Singh Banga (retd), the father of Banga brothers, is also a decorated army general ...Corporate Life Lines (Media Advisory Company);Former Sr. Vice President - Indian Express Multimedia Ltd.;Former Advisor - IL&FS Infrastructure Leasing & Fin
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• Nirmal Singh
  ...ps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Indian Army. While serving in the Army, in 1958 he was responsible for an extensive study on equipment reliability
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• Operation Bluestar Eyewitness Accounts
  EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE ARMY ACTION ...his own words) "an eye-witness to some of the atrociities committed by the Army during its attack on the Golden Temple". About fiftyish, Duggal now lives w
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• ‘Pagdi Sambhal Jatta Movement
  ...Sardar Fateh Singh was one of the valiant Sikhs of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army who had fought bravely till the end against the British in the Anglo-Sikh w ...democracy in the country. So he made it his life’s mission to struggle for Indian independence. In the course of his social service works in 1903, he met and
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• Origins of non-violence movement in India
  ...rmy of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In 1849 when the British annexed Punjab, his army unit was disbanded. Ram Singh hated the British whom he called ferengis (fo ...nted in the words of Brigadier-General John Jacob, a former leader of the Indian cavalry, who wrote:
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• Anti Sikh Racism in Europe
  == '''Role of Sikh Army''' == ...the two continents would do well to read the startling revelations of what army leaders felt about the Turban in the two World Wars of the last century. Mo
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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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• Jallianwalla Bagh massacre
  ...gh Massacre''', involved the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless [[Indian]]s by a senior British military officer (Brigadier-General R.E.H. Dyer), wh In December 1916, the [[Wikipedia:Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress]], at its annual session held at Lucknow, passed a resolu
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• Heroism at the battle of Galli Poli
  ...there were six battalions of the Sikh Regiment forming part of the British Army. They were named as 14th Ferozepur Sikhs, 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 35th Sikhs, ...ew to meeting the situation effectively, he had made the 14th Sikhs of the Indian Brigade a part of his expeditionary force. Sir Hamilton wrote to the Comman
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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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• Shoorsaini
  ...of Shatrughna, brother of Rama.<ref> Pargiter, F.E. (1972) [1922]. Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, pp.170-1,171fn2 </ref> A “..This Herakles is held in special honour by the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe, who possess two large cities, Methora and Cleisobora” Arrian, Ind
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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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• SAS Nagar
  ...tinational corporations is growing. Quark, Mohali, Infosys, the well-known Indian IT services major, had a development center in Mohali, and is now moving to The Deputy Commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service, is the overall in-charge of the General Administrat
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• Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh
  ...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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• Jagjit Singh Hans
  His father was a major in the Indian army. In 1965, at the age of 21, he emigrated to Toronto, arriving with $6 in hi ...Canada and India, wrestling on occasion, and is trying to start up his own Indian based promotion World Wrestling Mania.
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• Sikhs persecuted in Pakistan
  When we left, the Taliban took it over.” These Sikhs say they have refused Indian offers of help. They wear their patriotism proudly, and say that they w ...nsom of Pakistani Rs 63 lakh—to secure the release of whom the Pakistan Army embarked on a military operation. But in the meantime, the security situ
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• Sialkot
  ...reat expanse of land for many reasons, varying from their European-trained army, Sikh rules of discipline, their modern European weaponry, modern British m During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 it was the scene of heavy fighting, and the Sialkot Fort
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• THE KAMOKE MASSACRE
  Fifteen men of the Pakistan army were with the train as guards. We were given railway tickets for Ferozepur ...who would go to India would be made to stand in line and shot dead by the Indian Military because they were not fit for being returned to Hindu society and
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Mombasa
  ..., in Mombasa County and the former Coast Province, Mombasa's bordering the Indian Ocean made it a historical trading centre, and it has been controlled by 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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• Toshakhana
  ...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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• Sobha Singh
  ...spur district]] of the [[Punjab]]. His father, Deva Singh, had been in the Indian cavalry. As a draughtsman in the [[Indian]] army he served in [[Baghdad]], in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). On coming back from Ba
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• Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon
  ...Chakra is the highest medal for gallantry of Indian Military. Since 1947, Indian defence forces have participated in various campaigns all around India and ...ue of gallantry and sacrifice by his parents. He was commissioned into the Indian Air Force on June 4, 1967 as a Flying Officer.
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• Sardar Bahadur Gopal Singh
  ...edar Major of Lobana Sikh community was awarded the Gallantry Award I.O.M (Indian Order of Merit which equals the Paramvir Chakra/Victoria Cross), O.B.I (Ord 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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• General Shabeg Singh
  ...for sports he did not wish to pursue that as a career, his mind was on the army, which was considered a noble profession. He excelled in studies and genera ...team visiting Lahore colleges was looking for fresh recruits to the Indian Army officer’s cadre. Out of a large number of students, who applied, Shabeg S
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• Remembering the battle of Gallipoli
  ...there were six battalions of the Sikh Regiment forming part of the British Army. ...ew to meeting the situation effectively, he had made the 14th Sikhs of the Indian Brigade a part of his expeditionary force. Sir Hamilton wrote to the Comman
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• Kashmir
  ...'' also known as Cashmere, os located in the north-western region of the [[Indian]] subcontinent. Historically the term Kashmir was used to refer to the vall ...] sacrificed his life. As a result, many Kashmiris joined the Tenth Guru's army and laid down their lives in [[Chamkaur]] and other battles.
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• POLITICAL FACTIONS IN INDIA
  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- Indian People's Party Ranvir Sena- Army of Ranvir
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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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• Sikh sacrifice in Belgium
  ...P.O.Ws who were forced to work on the roads for the Germans. In the French Army, one would find Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Senegalese, other West Africa ...d Bermuda, the Fiji Islands (Fijian Labour Corps). Then again, the British army itself counted amongst their ranks white Rhodesians.
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• Baba Deep Singh Ji
  ...ed. Although the Muslim army outnumbered the Sikhs significantly, the Sikh army was able to easily defeat the Muslim forces. During the battle, Baba Deep S ...eror of Afghanistan, attacked India for the fifth time. After looting many Indian cities including Delhi, he brought back with him gold, jewellery, and thous
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• Baba Gurdit Singh
  ...an Singh Dhillon, was a high-ranking military officer in the [[Sikh Khalsa Army]] and had fought against the British during the first and second [[Anglo-Si ...llenge to the obstructions put up by Government of Canada meant to prevent Indian citizens who were sons of the British Empire from immigrating to Canada. Th
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• Gurudongmar Lake
  ...dhists and the waters are supposed to have curative properties. The Indian Army got into a conflict with the Sikkim Government when they erected a gurdwara ...only a handful of visitors each year. Access is strictly controlled at the Army checkpost at Giagong. Due to the altitude, there is a scarcity of oxygen. V
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• Gurdwara Janam Asthan Guru Nanak Dev
  ...the gruesome events of [[20 February]] [[1921]]. With the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and the migration of Sikh population from the Western ...Jathas or groups. They pressed forward, group after group, in spite of the army's threats to gun them down.
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• Ahmad Shah Durrani
  ...i contingent in which capacity he accompanied the Persian conqueror on his Indian expedition in 1739. ...onpayment of the revenues of the Chahar Mahal was the reason for his third Indian expedition of 1751-52. Lahore was besieged for four months and the surround
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• Sikhs in Indian Air force
  The first Indian, or indeed Asian, to procure aeroplanes was the then young Maharaja of Pati ...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
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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 ...ia Sikhs amd Mazhabi Sikhs continued their service with the SLI in the new army. The SLI has served in almost all of the post-1947 conflicts involving Indi
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• Naushehra Pannuan
  ...annuan''' is a large village located in the [[Tarn Taran]] district in the Indian State of Punjab. The village is believed to be the largest village of the P ...Commonwealth Games 2010 shooting champion, currently serving in the Indian Army.
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• STRATEGY AND WAR TACTICS OF THE SIKHS
  ...d sword and fire to every place they visited. They fought and defeated the Indian Kings, burnt and plundered the towns and villages, sacked and slew the loca ...ng mercenary forces. The real strength of the Mughal empire lay not in its army but in the vast resources of Hindustan. The Sikhs seem to have realised thi
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• Sadhu Singh Hamdard
  ...ment in January 1984, but he surrendered the honour in protest against the army action in the precincts of the Golden Temple, Amritsar, in June 1984. Sadhu ...partment and Press Advisory Committee of the Punjab Government, and of the Indian Academy of Letters (1973–1978). He was also president of the Kendri Punja
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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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• Europe remembers
  ...were complemented by several memorial practices referring to the Sikh and Indian soldiers who fought in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. An exh ...res, a little monument was unveiled that commemorated the first actions of Indian troops in the Great War. In the temporary gurdwara, local and Sikh author
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• Labana
  ...Labana, Lobana, Lohana) is a very rich community that lives in and around Indian subcontinent. Basically, Labanas are braham kashatriya rajputs which means ...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
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• Sikhism in India
  ...n Dev - the first Silh Martyr. Guru Arjan's son - Guru Hargobind raised an army which defeated Mughal forces in several battles though he hunted with a Mug ...service in Sikhism continues even today and many Sikhs serve in the Indian army or police. The Sikhs also have a reputation as experts in steering, from ca
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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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• 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 ...ch a powerful military force never conquered and governed large parts of [[Indian subcontinent|India]] outside [[Punjab region|Punjab]]. Constant warfare bet
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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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• Khalsa College
  ...a College''' is a historic educational institution in the [[India|northern Indian]] city of [[Amritsar]] in [[Punjab state]]. Founded in 1892, the sprawling ...tack on Amritsar. A force of 700 [[Sikhs]] defeated the much larger Mughal army.
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• Sikh Ahluwalia
  ...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 ...ite by carrying out a full scale butchery. His orders were for everyone in Indian dress to be killed at sight. The soldiers of Malerkotala and Sarhind were t
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• Sikhs - Noor Mohammad
  ...baksh Singh Shahid]] with his band of 30 Sikhs who valiantly challenged an army of 30,000 Afghanis and Baluchis and sacrificed their lives on the 'altar of ...t times of peace, they surpass "Hatim" (in generosity). When they take the Indian sword in their hands they traverse the country from Hind to Sind. None can
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• Guru Nanak in Tibet Quotes
  ...led it was decided to blow it with a dynamite the next day. That night the army officer also had a dream not to remove the stone but he again disregarded i ...uler of Sirmaur, to help him fight the Mughals. Guru Gobind Singh with his army, settled in Paonta Sahib in the foothills. During the reign of Maharaja Ran
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• Gurbachan Singh Salaria
  ...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 ...duty and disregard for personal safety were in the best traditions of our Army.
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• SANT BHINDRANWALE'S IDEOLOGY AND MISSION
  ...ingh (real name Manjit Singh) and his companions hijacked another plane of Indian Air Lines in protest against the burning of Guru Granth Sahib and two busse ...displayed and also shouted in the streets constituted an offence under the Indian Penal Code, for the offenders had criminally intimidated the Sikhs. The lan
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• Baba Nihal Singh
  ...Right Hand Man of Sant Jarnail Singh, and had many gevious with the Indian Army's and Politians One Story i heard was that they; raided the camp and caught
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• Mughal
  ...1739 it was defeated by an army from Persia led by Nadir Shah. In 1756 an army of Ahmad Shah looted Delhi again. The British Empire finally dissolved it i ...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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• Bibi Baghel Kaur
  ...forcibly took beautiful Hindu ladies with him, but the Sikhs attacked his army when he was going back to Afghanistan. They recovered the property he was t ...urageously that it would be remembered for ever. In the evening the Pathan army had to retreat, but in the confusion that prevailed Baghel Kaur and four ot
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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 ...hmian plains to the tip of Asia's Easter Shores. This once great spread of Indian culture was fueled by his religion and his efforts to spread the Budhist me
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• Harvinder Singh Phoolka
  ...[[Golden Temple complex]] during the period June 1 to 6, 1984. The Indian army invaded the [[Harmandir Sahib complex]] on the orders of the then Prime Mi ...rst = | title = Senior govt counsel quits | work =| pages = | publisher = Indian Express (Newspaper)| date = 2001-02-13| url =| accessdate = 2008-12-29}}</r
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• Harmandar sahib gurdwara complex
  ...uring Operation [[Bluestar]], the building was badly damaged by the Indian Army. ...useum and the Sikh Reference Library are also established here. The Indian army burnt the Sikh archives, libraries and the records of the offices of the Ak
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• Sikh History June
  1984: Indian forces initiated their first day of assault on the Golden Temple complex. 1984: Sri Darbar Sahib was invaded by Indian Armed Forces. The Indian Government imposed 36 hrs. of curfew beginning at 9pm and handed over the P
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• Mahavir Chakra
  ...pain and he was bleeding profusely from his wounds, he helped four wounded Indian soldiers to safety and retreived a number of weapons from the dead. He was A forward post manned by Indian soldiers came under heavy fire in Feb 1948 during the Jammu and Kashmir ope
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• Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  '''Army of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]''', a formidable military machine that helped ...troops with their systematic training and their discipline, had vanquished Indian forces vastly superior in numbers. He had also realized how crucial a well
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• Sikhism in Pakistan
  ...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 ...al," and "Vahiguru ji ka khalsa," it is hard to believe that one is not in Indian Punjab but Ranchore Lines in Karachi.
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• Guru Nanak Buddhist
  Tarungpa Tulku (As published in the Indian Express, March 6th, 1966) It gave me great pleasure when I was asked the local lamas and Sikh sangat. Currently the Army is looking after the gurdwara. As per a legend, there lived a
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• Misuse Of word SANT
  ...as possible by using the the title "Sant", stands out sky high. No way any Indian can miss him. ...joined the never ending war against FALSEHOOD. Shi thus formally joins the ARMY of [[Khalsa|KHALSA]] as 'a recruit(GurSikh) uunder training' with the aim o
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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 ...Singh Bhindranwale. The article also states that Lakhbir may have been an Indian agent, which is why the confession was officially destroyed.
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• Dr. I. J. Singh
  ...Sikh society and a Sikh home not in any systematic fashion. Of India and Indian history I knew mostly platitudes. These invitations in a sense challenged m ...ns in India than in America. She reminded me of their lack of power in the Indian society and family.
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• History
  ...ion Sikhs in the world today, the vast majority live in the [[Punjab|north Indian state of Punjab]]. [[Sikhism]] or [[Sikhi]] is the fifth largest organised ...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
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• Kulwant Singh Khukhrana
  ...oss Punjab to resist a backlash, many thousands were detained in jails and army camps, tortured for information and in some instances killed as a result of ...eech to the sangat saying: “These fake encounters and false arrests by the Indian security forces is not finishing the movement, instead it is fuelling the m
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• House of Khalsa Brand
  ...chive.org/web/20210123030856/https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/indian-australian-watchmaker-s-luxury-creation-captures-the-spirit-of-khalsa|url-s ...that originates from the 17th century when [[Guru Gobind Singh]] formed an army of spiritual warriors with a mission to guard the innocent against religiou
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• Patiala
  ...other buildings such as the Yadavindra Stadium, State Bank of Patiala, the Army Headquarters, the Soldiers' Club and the Gymkhana Club. Patiala also has a ..., the first ever and till 1996 the only individual Olympic medal won by an Indian. Bakhshish Singh of Patiala also represented India in wrestling in the Melb
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• Tatt Khalsa
  ...tter there is a conflation and interaction between Western colonialism and Indian inherited traditions. The basic belief of Tat Khalsa is exclusivity. The Or ...) relationship - its uniqueness lies in its reinterpretation of these core Indian ideas. This is best exemplified by the fact that the Tat Khalsa hold the Ad
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• Origin of non violence
  ...my of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In 1849, when the British annexed Punjab, his army unit was disbanded. He was further concerned at the takeover of the Gurdwar ...nto Jathas or groups. They pressed forward, group after group, in spite of army threats to gun them down. Finally the soldiers yielded, unable to face kill
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• Last of the second world war Sikh RAF fighter pilots
  .../front_page/newsid_8872000/8872500.stm ''"BBC"'' 22 September 2010 - WWII Indian flying ace Squadron Leader Pujji, 92, dies] ...ain in 1940; he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery. An Indian pilot who flew Hawker Hurricanes during World War II has died, it has been
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• Maharaja Gulab Singh
  ...Empire. Later (''c.''1812), Gulab Singh enlisted in Emperor Ranjit Singh's army, becoming the commander of a Dogra cavalry contingent. He distinguished him In all this time a large part of the [[Dogra]] army had been engaged in trans-Himalayan conquests. [[General Zorawar Singh]], g
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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.}} ...at about 9:30, Train No. 339 pulls into the shabby station in the northern Indian farm town of Bathinda, in [[Punjab state]]. Locals call this train by a chi
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• Giani Zail Singh
  ...947, drew closer, the confrontationist's writ ran freely. This brought the Indian leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, to the tiny town of Faridkot. There took place a ...ia. Viable political and geographical units appeared all over the gigantic Indian jungle. The word PEPSU, short for Patiala and East Punjab States Union, mar
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• Faridkot
  ...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 Kot Kapura is a city and a municipal council in Faridkot district in the Indian state of Punjab. It is very well known for its big Mandi.
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• The Sikhs of Nepal
  Before the family bought a part interest in the new Modern Indian School in Kathmandu in 1978, the Sikh community was devoted almost exclusiv ...ritam Singh’s family’s fleet of 300 have been solicited by the police, the army, the food corporation, and even by King Mahendra. “Whenever King Mahendra
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• Giani Sant Singh Maskeen remembered
  At the time of partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Maskeen Ji, like millions of [[Sikh]]s, was uprooted ...tand the message of [[Gurbani]] it is necessary to have basic knowledge of Indian culture and traditions.
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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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• Bhagat Singh Thind
  ...hind''', Ph.D, ([[3 October]] [[1892]] - [[15 September]] [[1967]]) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved i ...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
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• Martyrdom in Sikhism
  ...e whole-life character of Sikhism from the earlier dichotomous or pacifist Indian religious traditions. It is significant that the concept was emphatically ==Indian Tradition Of Sacrifice And Sikh Concept Of Martyrdom==
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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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• Hola Mahalla
  ...d is a Punjabi word that implies an organized procession in the form of an army column. But unlike Holi, when people playfully sprinkle colored powder, dry ...ock fight". During this festival, processions are organised in the form of army type columns accompanied by war-drums, standard-bearers, who proceed to a g
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• Gurmukh Singh OBE
  ...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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• Glossary of Sikh Terms
  '''[[Akali Dal]]''': Literally [[Khalsa|'''"eternal army"''']]. The main political party of Sikhs in Punjab. '''[[Amritsar]]''': Literally "pool of nectar." City located in the northern Indian state of Punjab, where the Harimandir Sahib complex is located.
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• Bajrang Dal
  The Bajrang Dal, or vanar sena (army of apes), as it is swelled to a menacing army of misguided youths who were
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• Gurdwara Saragarhi
  ...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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• Guru Har Gobind
  ...he last injunction: "Let him sit fully armed on his throne and maintain an army to the best of his capacity." ...ir]] that the Lohgarh fort, the [[Akal Takhat]], and the growing Risaldari army were all intended to allow Guru HarGobind Ji to one day take revenge for hi
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• Shiromani Akali Dal
  ...politics, [[Simranjit Singh Mann]], formerly, a highranking member of the Indian Police Service.
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• Akali Movement
  ...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 ...y 1921, as a Jatha or band of 150 Akalis came to the Gurdwara, the private army of Narain Das fell upon them, raining bullets all around. The jatha leader,
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• Sukha & Jinda's letter to the President of India
  ...d cruelty. We have not forgotten that when the "wedding party of sin" (the Indian Armed Forces) was invading our Temple of God, a heathen in the garb of a Si By invading the Golden Temple, your army tried to rob a nation of saint-soldiers, living in its divine simplicity, o
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• Communal Award
  ...al legislatures as a further step in the transfer of responsibility to the Indian people. The Secretary of State for India presented the terms of the Award t ...as "communal," carried forward the use of categories which had operated in Indian politics since the nineteenth century. When the rulers of British India beg
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• July 31
  ...ulu Majra, a few miles from Rupar, Punjab. After early schooling he joined army in 1935, from where he resigned in 1939 and graduated privately in 1942 and ...and until the time that this understanding was sabotaged by the stooges of Indian National Congress. Thoughout his life, Sardar Ambalvi has been the chief ex
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• The tragedy of 1984
  .../article/ALeqM5gdEbDCxHB37f1f83dVVozb4td8cg Sikhs mark 25th anniversary of Indian temple raid] 6 June 2009 ...84-operation-bluestar-eyewitness-accounts.html Eye witness accounts of the Army action]
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• Sikh History October
  ...etirement from the Indian army. General Vadiya was the Chief of the Indian Army who ordered the attack on the holiest of the holy shrines at Amritsar and e * '''1946''' Ishar Singh Mahjaiol moved a resolution, in the Indian house, for the creation of a Sikh State. The resolution was seconded by Sar
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• Battle of Naushera
  ...ier Mughals to a more relaxed version of Islam (shah Jahan was more Hindu (Indian) by blood than a [[Moslem]] ([[Mughal]]). [[Aurangzeb]] and his radical ext ...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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• Shri Akal Takhat
  ...hah Abdali and Massa Rangar in the 18 century. On June 4, 1984, the Indian Army did more than just damage to the outer facade of the Sri Akal Takhat. They ...ge to his son asked him to, “sit fully armed on his throne and maintain an army.” And [[Guru Hargobind]] did just that.
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• Tarn Taran
  '''Tarn Taran Sahib,''' ({{lang-pa|ਤਰਨ ਤਾਰਨ ਸਾਹਿਬ}}) a city in the Indian state of [[Punjab]], is the district headquarters and the host of the mun As of 2001 Indian census,<ref>{{GR|India}}</ref> Tarn Taran Sahib had a population of 130,587
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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 ...r in 1922. He participated in the non-cooperation movement launched by the Indian National Congress as well as in the Akali morchas for the reformation of th
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• OFFER OF SIKH STATE RECALLED BY MAHARAJA YADAVINDER SINGH
  ...ording to the writer of this letter, many of the events connected with the Indian States and the Sikhs may never see the light of day. ...e British Parliament later, in a way, confirmed it by an Act releasing the Indian States from the treaties which bound them to the British Crown; the questio
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• THE GANDHI - JINNAH APPEAL FOR PEACE
  ...rary the Congress wanted passionately to keep a united and strongly-welded Indian nation to receive power as an undivided and powerful free India from the Br ...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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• The Man of All Milleniums
  ...ythological epics was to show to the Sikhs and the World that in the whole Indian (Hindu) mythology warriors vied with one another to seek Divine, Celestial
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• Arain people
  ...rab invaders to the Indian subcontinent. Akbar Shah Khan Najeebabadi, an Indian historian of Islam, wrote that they entered India thru Debal, Sindh with M ...y fair, and many have coloured eyes, which means that they could not be of Indian ancestary. This is more true because of the fact that even today '''Arains'
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• Sikh Ramgarhia
  ...ccession crisis occurred in Yuan dynasty and Ilkhanate. Abaqa Khan made an Indian Lohar after he had led his mother and her team all the way from Central Asi ...d, was the chief seat of the family, and the headquarters of the Ramgarhia army, numbering thousands. The Bazaar arose on the space between the Ramgarh for
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• Avtar Singh Brahma
  ...on Movement. The name of “Brahma” used to strike terror into the hearts of Indian Security Forces. Bhai Brahma also had a very special relationship with Cana ...aid, “Your Shaheedee here will not be of as much value is it could be. The army has surrounded us and is ready to attack. Who knows what will happen in a f
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• Battle of Gurusar
  ...ng battle. The [[sangat]] of [[Malwa]] was supplying resources to the Sikh army including meals and supplies to help to keep them warm in the cool season. ...Jahan ordered these generals to attack the Guru's forces. The Mughal fauj {army} was also joined by Rajputs of Raikot and the Rangarhs of Aandru and Halwar
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• Sikh Historic Events: January
  ...h, Chief Organizer of the Dal Khalsa, was arrested. He was tortured by the Indian police and forced to read out a written statement if he wanted to save his 1849: The Battle of ChellianWala was fought by the Khalsa Army against the East India Company.
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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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• Sikhism in Australia
  ..., hence many turned to other sources of income; which included joining the Army, buying land in Pakistan (when new colonies were established by the British ...Another big influx began with the silicon chi revolution. Large number of Indian Computer Software professional started arriving in Australia from 1973 onwa
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• Tarkhan
  The '''Tarkhans''' are a Northern Indian ethnic tribe that inhabits the [[Punjab]], which is now divided between Nor ...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
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• The Rakhi System
  ...e evils of a dual monarchy, not knowing whether the province was a part of Indian Empire to be controlled in its administration from Delhi or from Kandhar or ...rotection is by general consent held so far sacred, that even if the grand army passes through a zamindari where the safe guards of the lowest Sikh chief a
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• Kapurthala
  ...includes the Sainik School, Kendriya Vidyalaya (Kapurthala Cantt.) and the Army School. ...le hi-tech manufacturing units dedicated to building railway carriages for Indian Railways. Popularly known as RCF, the Rail Coach Factory was established in
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• Sanatan Singh Sabha, article being reconstructed
  ...tter there is a conflation and interaction between Western colonialism and Indian inherited traditions. The basic belief of Sanatan Sikhism is inclusively, i ...Propagation of the Gospel, Methodists, Moravians, Episcopalians, Salvation Army etc. all vied with each other in gaining converts to Christianity.
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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 ...eb|url=http://www.sikhpioneers.org/s_komaphot.html|title=Pioneer Sikh East Indian Immigration to the Pacifc Coast from the Punjab|publisher=Sikh Pioneers|acc
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• Gatka
  ...gs.JPG|thumb|350px|left|Gatka Guru, [[Guru Gobind Singh]] leads the Khalsa Army into battle]] ...rriors stood at the doors swinging their swords in a Gatka movement and no Indian soldier could get close to them.
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• Udham Singh
  Singh, one of the better-known of the more extremist revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle, is also referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh ...dered British Indian Army troops to fire on a large gathering of peaceful Indian protesters in [[Punjab]], that had gathered in a garden (the Jallianwala Ba
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• Punjabi Suba Agitation
  The Congress government remained inflexible. By its own past decisions, the Indian National Congress was pledged to reconstituting the provinces on a linguist ...d a hard time explaining to his rugged, but prompt, captors that he was an Indian national and not a Pakistani spy.
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• On This Day
  ...etirement from the Indian army. General Vadiya was the Chief of the Indian Army who ordered the attack on the holiest of the holy shrines at Amritsar and e * '''1946''' Ishar Singh Mahjaiol moved a resolution, in the Indian house, for the creation of a Sikh State. The resolution was seconded by Sar
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• A Trail of Unlawful Killings in Jammu and Kashmir: Chithisinghpora and its Aftermath
  On the evening of 20 March 2000, 15 or 17 unidentified gunmen, some in Indian army uniform, entered village Chithisinghpora in Anantnag district, ordered the ...e flare-up of the conflict a decade ago. The fact that many members of the army and central police force stationed in Jammu and Kashmir are Sikhs did not i
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• Caste System
  ...s a voice of '''protest against the many prevalent ills''' of contemporary Indian society. The caste system was the '''most damaging and debilitating''' of t ...an unintegrated mass of doctrines and tenets. It is what distinguishes an army from a rabble, as it involves organization, arrangement, method and conside
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• Anandpur resolution
  one seat at the elections to Indian parliament (1971) from among the 13 which were Punjab's Sikh representation in the Indian Constituent Assembly, in 1950, refused to affix their
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• Anandpur Sahib Resolution
  ...romani Akali Dal]], were able to capture only one seat at the elections to Indian parliament (1971) from among the 13 which were Punjab's portion. ...ications which will remain subjects within the jurisdiction of the Federal Indian Government.
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• Hondh Massacre
  ...ng for autonomous government were imprisoned.[5] In 1984, during an Indian Army assault called Operation Bluestar, thousands of innocent Sikhs were killed
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• Kartar Singh Sarabha
  ...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 one of Br ...ed August 5, 1914. Thousands of copies of the paper were distributed among army cantonments, villages and cities. Kartar Singh reached Calcutta via Colombo
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• Milkha Singh
  ...mes-no-one-would-be-able-to-break-his-record-in-100-yrs/1135643/ |work=The Indian Express |date=30 June 2013 |first=Nihal |last=Koshie |title=If Milkha Singh ...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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• Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazoor Sahib
  ...izam of Hyderabad raised a contingent of Northern [[Sikh]]s as part of his army. Most of these men settled permanently in Hyderabad State. Many militant an ===Guru Granth Sahib in all Indian languages by 2008===
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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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• Why I wear a Turban?
  ...ace, an event that changed the course of, not only Sikh history, but of [[Indian]] history, as well. In front of the [[Laal Kila]] on the orders of the Mug ...SIngh 1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|{{C|'''[[General JJ Singh]], Chief of Indian Army'''}}]]
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• Hari Singh Nalwa and the subjugation of north-western frontier
  ...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 ...hmir, to join him there. At that time, Hari Singh had only seven thousand army. On the way he was opposed by twenty thousand wild mountaineers living in
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• Shaheed Fauja Singh
  ...ses, he showed that person how to wear the uniform of Akal Purakh`s Khalsa army. ...a true picture of him. Bhai Fauja Singh really was a soldier of the Guru`s army in this and his previous life."
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• Menin Gate and the Sikhs
  ...rozepore Brigade – were the first to have their baptism of fire. The first Indian battalion that had to go into the firing line was the 57th Wilde’s Rifles ...e Germans attacked the Indian troops from the ridge of the Zandvoorde. The Indian and British troops were by far in the minority, had little ammunition and s
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• Old News 12
  ...net.com/files/imagecache/thumb/news/image/main/Tejdeep-THUMB.jpg|The U. S. Army has announced that it will accept a second Sikh recruit, Captain Tejdeep Si ...mb/news/image/main/PM-THUMB.jpg|In the first state visit of the first Sikh Indian prime minister with the first black American president, Manmohan Singh and
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• Women and Partition
  ...reply to his request for the recovery of the girl, he was informed by the Indian Military authorities (copy attached) that his daughter did not wish to leav ...ive definition of the term "Abducted" than the one already provided in the Indian Penal Code.16 Another important aspect of this legislation was the provisio
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• History of Punjab
  ...e that emerged from their interactions with the natives of the rest of the Indian subcontinent. ...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
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• Khatri
  ...hatris''' (Punjabi) or '''Kshatriyas''' (Sanskrit, (K) silent) are a north Indian community that originated in the Potwar Plateau of Punjab. This region is h ...one community. In modern times, the Khatri play a significant role in the Indian economy, serving as businessmen, civil and government administrators, landl
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• Sikh History August
  1982 Gurbakash Singh tried to hijack Indian Airline plane to Lahore. ...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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• Dusht Daman (Destroyer of The Evil)
  Stories about Hemkund have written sources in the Puranas (ancient volumes of Indian mythology) and the Hindu epics (the Mahabharata and the Ramayana). Long bef ...oddess Durga was engaged in battle with the demons Bel and Subel and their army when she had to flee and take refuge in the mountains. There, she approache
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• Beant Butcher
  ...ian and the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1992 to 1995. He was a member of Indian National Congress. He was assassinated in a Revenge bombing. ...cation from the Government College Lahore. At the age of 23, he joined the army but after two years of service, decided to make a switch to politics and so
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• Gurbachan Singh Manochal
  ...n India's side. When all the other Singhs had been martyred and the entire Indian Security Force was on his trail, he refused the order to go and hide in Pak ==Life in the Army==
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• Chief Khalsa Diwan
  ...nment employment and in positions of political power then available to the Indian people, the Chief Khalsa Diwan kept up pressure on the British authorities ...e government concerning the Punjabi language, jobs, and commissions in the army.
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• Baba Modan Singh
  ...ay to Hemkunt Sahib.jpg|thumb|right|300px|This gateway built by the Indian Army is over the road to Hemkunt Sahib, one of the sacred Sikh shrines in honour ...the Guru had meditated. Sohan Singh was a retired granthi from the Indian army was working in a gurdwara in Tehri Garhwal - the same region in which Hemku
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• Hemkunt (Gurmat)
  ...ices. Sant Sohan Singh, who was a retired Granthi (priest) from the Indian army working voluntarily at a gurdwara in Tehri Garhwal. Construction of this Gu
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• Rajputs
  ...s formidable soldiers and it is common to find many of them serving in the Indian Armed Forces. Historically the Rajputs were identified by their regal turba ...h recruited heavily from these "martial races" for service in the colonial army.
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• Patwant Singh
  ...terests with his love for writing. He started up his first periodical, The Indian Builder, in 1953 as publisher. In 1957, he unveiled his most influential jo The Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Second Kashmir War in 1965 led Singh to think about int
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• Partition of Punjab
  ...h gospel of loyalty among Muslims. He first opened his campaign againt the Indian National Congress in 1887. The Indian national congress was founded in 1885 by Some British and Anglo-Indians to
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• Sikhi and Dhamma
  ...t attacks on the Sikh faith shed light on the elimination of Buddhism from Indian soil, and equally the history of Buddhism provides a warning to Sikhs about Tarungpa Tulku (As published in the Indian Express, March 6th, 1966) It gave me great pleasure when I was asked to wri
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• Jaito Morcha
  ...the massacre of the reformists at [[Nankana Sahib]]. His contacts with the Indian nationalist leaders and involvement in popular causes had irked the British ...or disperse as demanded by Wilson Johnston. The administrator ordered the army to open fire, In two volleys of fire lasting about five minutes, several fe
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• Guru Nanak in Maharashtra
  ...ailway station on Howrah-Nagpur rail line, and Kamptee is now an important Army Cantonment. The area is primarily inhabited by Gond Tribe. Their only dress ...ney buried at the place. Guru Gobind Singh distributed the money among his army who could not be paid earlier. The place was known as Mal Tekri from that d
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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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• 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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• Handalis
  ...not the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Muslims or the English but the Indian Army itself that would, in the process of clearing Sant Bindranwale and his sup
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• Kartar Singh Thakral
  ...licity-shy company was best known for the electrical appliances it sold to Indian tourists from its retail outlet at the corner of Singapore's North Bridge R ...n Singh Thakral, who as a 10-year-old orphan migrated to Thailand from the Indian state of Punjab. Sohan hawked textiles on the streets of Bangkok for severa
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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}} ...latest developments in this tragic case of alleged torture by police of 17 Indian men facing the death penalty in the United Arab Emirates for the murder of
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• Sathiala
  ...ingh Bal – Administrator of Dera Beas after his retirement from the Indian Army and Ex Sarpanch.
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• Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
  ...ased due to lack of evidence) Sant Bhindranwale was kept on close watch by Indian police officials. ==Stand against the Indian Government==
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• Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  ...moments of human history. It was during the hard won independance of the Indian sub-continent when in 1947 that the Partition of India resulted in the slau ...r sahib, his four sons and his wife and mother along with 52 poets and his army. When he later lost everything, he was in machiwara, where he didn’t utte
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• Giani Zail Singh and Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale an Overview
  ...the Giani of having intimated Sant Bhindrawale the Government plan to send army into the holy precincts. ...at large were most unhappy that with a Sikh at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, the Army destroyed the Akal Takhat.
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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.'' ...have a disproportionately large presence in various fields, especially the Indian Armed Forces.
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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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• 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 ...5 members representing all the districts, Sikh states of the Punjab, other Indian provinces, and Sikh organizations in Burma, Malaya, China and North America
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• Sikhs in World War 1
  Over 138,000 Indian troops fought in Belgium and France during World War I, many of them Sikhs. ...ion. And yet they did it." (Lt. General Sir James Wilcox, Commander of the Indian Corps)
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• A day at the Golden Temple
  ...heir [[Gurdwara]]s. Below is an account of a typical day in the busy north Indian city of [[Amritsar]]. ...of the parikarma or on the pillars of the adjoining verandahs. Many Indian army regiments still maintain the tradition of installing commemorative plaques
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• Pakistan - Birth and objectives
  The refugee problem for the Indian Government, already preoccupied with the rehabilitation of about a crore of ...or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims at least
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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 ...facing capital punishment and enlisting themselves in the Indian National Army that was organized to oppose the British.
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• Shaheed Singhs
  There is an army of Shaheed Singhs that have been ordered by Guru Sahib to constantly protec ...s Singhnee and told her about how all the villagers were talking about the army of Nihangs that had protected their house.
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• Giani Kartar Singh
  ...cipated in the campaign on behalf of the Tilak Svaraj Fund launched by the Indian National Congress. Leading a party of about 20 students, he also attended a
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• Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
  ...the message of [[Gurbani]] it is necessary to have basic knowledge of past Indian culture and traditions. However, some [[Sikh]]s scholars failed to understa During the partition of Indian in 1947, Maskeen Ji, like millions of other Sikhs in the western half of th
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• Gurdwara Nanak Shahi, Dhaka
  ...n Bangladesh. They are all here transitorily, mostly officers and staff of Indian High Commission. The Ministry of External Affairs have - thoughtfully - con During the Pakistan Army crackdown in Bangladesh in 1971, Mata Kanchan Devi was evacuated to Calcutt
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• Essence of Sikhism
  ...declaration, along with others, determined to erase the impurities of the Indian society. However, prejudices and injustices based on gender linger even tod == Khalsa is "God's army" ==
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• Kohinoor
  ...or originated in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, belonged to various Indian and Persian rulers who fought bitterly over it at various points in history ...dhra Pradesh, one of the world's earliest diamond producing regions. South Indian folklore is definite in claiming a local origin for the stone. It is certai
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• An ode to Punjabi culture
  ...e Guru’s tap asthan. [[Sohan Singh]] was a retired granthi from the Indian army who was working in a gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Tehri Garhwal. In 1932, he r
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire, p 215, Aakar Books, 2005 ...stivals. Maharajah Ranjit Singh was the first Asian ruler to modernize his army to European standards and was well known for filling the leadership positio
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• Gurdwara Hemkunt sahib
  In the Indian epic and Puranic literature, Himalayan landscapes are described as the dwel ...other of Rama is mortally wounded in battle while he is leading Hanuman's army of Monkeys against some demons sent by Raavana the villianous Demon Ruler
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• Significance of Vaisakhi
  ...oples of the world. His call requires the community to join his specialist army unit to defend and nurture the high principles set by the Gurus. ...ted Sikh!" Why not make it your head this year and become a fighter in the army of [[Guru Gobind Singh]].
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• Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi
  ==Indian Civil Service== In 1953, Harbhajan Singh Puri entered the [[Wikipedia:Indian Civil Service | Indian Civil Service]]. He also married [[Bibi Sahiban Inderjit Kaur|Inderjit Kaur
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• Haridwar
  A paradise for nature-lovers, Haridwar presents kaleidoscope of Indian culture and civilisation. Haridwar also termed as 'Gateway to Gods' is know ...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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• CommonWealth War Martyers
  AMAR SINGH, Ambulance Sepoy, 97147. 3 Indian Lt. Field Ambulance. Indian Army Medical Corps. 14th October 1944. Age 18. Son of Dula Singh and Mehnti, of AMAR SINGH, Sepoy, 4129. 1st Bn. Jaipur Infantry, Indian States Forces. 17th December 1944. Age 24. Son of Jawar Singh, of Raisar, S
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• Punjabi University
  ...won unique distinctions in Youth Festivals organized by the Association of Indian Universities in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Govt. of Punjab Institute of Oriental & Indian Languages, Patiala
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• Machhiwara
  ...}} (Punjabi: ਮਾਛੀਵਾੜਾ) is now a small town in [[Ludhiana district]] in the Indian state of [[Punjab]]. It figures prominently in the last phase of [[Guru Gob When Aurangzeb's army attacked the fortress of [[Chamkaur Sahib]], [[Guru Gobind Singh]]ji succes
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• Chittisinghpura Massacre
  ...s, arrived in the village at 7-15 p.m. They told the people that they were Indian soldiers, and ordered the men out to be questioned. The captors spoke [[Urd Wearing Indian Army fatigues to avoid detection, the killers, who came into the village in two
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• Namdhari
  ...his appeal for a life of simplicity and spirituality. He resigned from the army and dedicated himself to his precept. Before he died, Baba Balak Singh name ...ented by the Kukas who had among their ranks some old soldiers of the Sikh army and who were generally critical of Christian proselytization as well as of
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• Bhai Maharaj Singh
  ...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 1. Bhargava, Moti Lal, Architects of Indian Freedom Struggle. New Delhi, 1981
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• Bhagat Sadhna
  '''Sadhna Bhagat'''(PA: ਸਧਨਾ), also called Sadhna Qasai, was a North Indian Muslim poet, Saint Mystic and one of the devotees whose hymn was incorporat Sadhna has travelled through various parts of Indian subcontinent and possibility is that he also met and accompanied Bhagat Nam
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• India, shame on you!
  ..., jailing and abusing of innocent [[Sikh]]s in [[Delhi]] and other major [[Indian]] cities following the death of Prime minister, {{w|Indira Gandhi}} on 31 O ...ur Singh (editor of the Sher-i-Panjâb weekly): "Cabinet berth for a Sikh", Indian Express, 31 May 1996.</ref>
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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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• 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 ...ars, the last of which resulted in the annexation of Punjab to the British Indian Empire.
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• Akal Takhat Quotes
  ...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). ...ly damaged by the Indian Army during Blue Star Operation in June 1984 when Indian Prime Minister Indra Gandhi ordered the troops to storm the holiest shrine
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• Baba Kharak Singh
  ...anised him into political activity. He addressed the annual session of the Indian National Congress which was held as Amritsar in December 1919, under the pr ...ally opened the gates of the temple of freedom. He became a general of the army of liberators in the Punjab and his life became a saga of sustained, valian
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• Languages of Punjab
  ...entury presents a complex phenomenon. In the wake of the reorganization of Indian states along linguistic lines in the fifties, the Sikh community in Punjab ...most of the Hindus from west Punjab migrated to the Indian Punjab. In the Indian Punjab, language confrontation shifted from Urdu-Hindi to Hindi-Punjabi soo
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• Sansi Rajput
  ...and 1924, which outlawed their nomadic lifestyle. Reform, initiated by the Indian government, has been difficult because they are an “untouchable” caste •Sikhs: comp. under the orders of the government of India. by: India. Army; Bingley, A. H., 1865-1944. Publication date: 1899
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• Why I embraced Sikhism
  ...become a good soldier simply by wearing the uniform? No. First of all the army spirit has to be infused in him. Exactly like that Sikhi shall have to be i ...d be like a good friend. Having been born and raised in a non-Sikh and non-Indian milieu, I may not understand the entire thing completely. You can think bet
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• Golden Temple
  ...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 ...at surrounds the Sarovar) were cut deeply, some even broken as the Indian army called in heavy tanks whose tracks cut deeply into the marble. Besides bein
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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 ...rship, on the Muslim side, the League, the bureaucracy, the police and the army worked like Hitler�s team with the tacit if not open approval of those in
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• Sikhs in the Netherlands - a Brief History
  ...icing other professions, own most of the over fifty restaurants that serve Indian cuisine. He often inquires about the presence of Sikhs in Holland and their ...t city and then after a few years destroyed that very place by sending the army that resulted in the death of thousands of innocent devotees.
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• Old News 16
  ...ge number of domestic and foreign tourists interested in Sikh shrines, the Indian railways will shortly launch a special train for the pilgrims. Officials of {{Newschic2|2999|Sikh-Brit Army Officer in Queen's New Year's Honours|http://www.sikhchic.com/cms/articles/
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• Sikhi
  ...way of life to many young people in the Western hemisphere. In addition to Indian-born Sikhs, there are now thousands of individuals of Western origin who we Following the [[Wikipedia:Indian general election, 2004|Indian general election, 2004]], Dr [[Wikipedia:Manmohan Singh|Manmohan Singh]] ha
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• Chands in Jaap Sahib
  In Indian classical prosody the time required to pronounce syllables, according to th ...chandh written with a tone, tempo or pace mirroring movement of a Marching Army</font>
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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 ...-sq.jpg|The late [[Sant Puran Singh]] ji was a Saint who lived outside the Indian subcontinent and was well aware of the difficulties, constraints and intrep
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• Sikhism in Canada
  ...In fact the Sikhs who immigrated to Canada, having severed in the British Army and been largely from India or African colonies were already, as were the C ...ast Indians in Canada by 1907, over 98% were Sikhs, mostly retired British army veterans.<ref>[http://sikhs.org/100th/part1a.html Century of Struggle and S
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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 ...o the essence of Sikh psyche to get a Gestalt view of oppression which the Indian population was subjected to by the oppressive Mughal kings Jahangir, Shah J
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• Punjab Suba Movement
  ...g state in the Punjab. At Independence it was commonly recognized that the Indian states then comprising the country did not have any rational or scientific ...arleys were interrupted at the end of December as a general session of the Indian National Congress was announced to be held in Amritsar on 1112 February 195
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• Shaheed Bhagat Singh
  ...]] freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian independence movement. For this reason, he is often referred to as '''Shahe ...re which was written by [[Punjabi]] writers and his favourite poet was an Indian freedom fighter Allama Iqbal from Sialkot. <ref>[http://www.shahidbhagatsin
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• Jatt
  ...d heavily from these so-called 'Martial Races' for service in the colonial army. Hardy Sandhu - An Indian singer
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• RSS
  ...time to move in for the kill. The Sikhs had been beaten very badly by the Indian government and their confidence had been shaken. The RSS would give the Sik ...ons. Banda Baigragi had with him Rajput warriors and a he gathered a Hindu army to punish the evil Wazir Khan.
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• 72 Miracles By Baba Ram Rai
  ...request of Aurangzeb, all the hailstones fell in a pond and fields and the army was not pelted. ...r(Wazir) was saying about famous Indian cuisines i.e Pedey(Peda is a north Indian sweet, shaped like a thick cookie.) of Mathura, Jhinjhwadey of Sunam, Rebrh
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• Origin Of RSS
  ...s Hinduness. That one word harnesses an attitude to what it means to be an Indian, which in RSS-speak means being Hindu. ...ive. It represents one of the most far-reaching developments in mainstream Indian politics since independence. But so far it has failed to consolidate its ap
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• Professor Puran Singh's historic letter
  ...irect help to you, but I am sure they would reveal a bit of the mind of an Indian, who is in the thick of all the mental conflictions and naturally reads mor ...singled out truly as cultured and rightly trained to deserve the title "[[Indian]]", which means one who, like a Japanese or an Englishman, will place befor
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• Namdharis/Kookas
  ...dictions that Viyas and Sukhdev related to the demigods during ‘Sat Yuga’ (Indian mythological term for the Golden Age). ...ne at the village of Nabha also speak of him as a 'Nigarchi' in the Khalsa army.
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• Negative and Positive views of Sikhs in the Media
  * ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' shows an Indian in the role of Captain Nemo (supposed to be a Sikh in the book), the captai ...ed'' a Sikh cab driver in the opening scene winds his way through oncoming Indian traffic, racing to deposit Bill Murray at the train station. A Sikh family
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• Sant Mat
  ...acknowledged the fact that the “Sant tradition” label, which is used North Indian bhakats (bhagats) such as Kabir and Ravidas, did not emerge until the ninet ...Nonetheless, McLeod’s statement the “Sant tradition label applied to North Indian bhakats (bhagats) such as Kabir and Ravidas does not emerge until the ninet
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• Sikhism & RSS
  ...ure of India and, that India cannot be nationally integrated until all the Indian share this culture and recognize it as the foundation of their collective n ...anta Party (BJP) and its main goal is to absorb Sikhism into Hinduism. The Indian government is spending millions of rupees to destroy Sikhism via multilevel
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• Turban
  ...ge:President bodyguard.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Turban of Sikh Soldier in the Indian President's personal guard. <small><small>Picture by RM Singh, Tribune</sma The [[Turban]] is a symbol of honor and self-respect. The [[Sikh]] Army fought their last major battle against the British in 1845. All the Sikh so
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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 throwing away the contents.189 There are Indian proverbs that ‘three
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• Shaheed Jathedar Harminder Singh Nihang
  .... He posed as a person on a Yatra. He would often tell the Singhs that the Indian agencies have several people on payroll in historical Gurdwara’s to keep This action shook the Indian establishment to its core, leaving the agencies stunned at how such a prote
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• Jahangir and the Muslim fundamentalist movement
  ...ndia Company promising their merchants preferential treatment, opening the Indian subcontinent to Britain for the first time. ...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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• 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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• The splendid panoply of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...Sir Charles Metcaife, then Governor of Agra and the rulers of a number of Indian Princely states. The rulers of Patiala, Faridkot, Kapurthala, Naraingarh, N ...any questions he asked him were about the size of the East India Company's army, the number of battles he had been in and the methods the English used to c
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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).}}
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• Discovery of Hemkunt sahib
  ...Sohan Singh]], who was a retired [[Granthi]] (priest) from the [[Indian]] army working voluntarily at a [[gurdwara]] in Tehri Garhwal. Having read the des ...several thousand people. The village has a government doctor, chemist and army dispensary located in the [[Gurdwara]] complex. Guests sleep on the floor a
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• Who Are The Guilty
  ...e attack were master minded by some powerful organised groups. As a senior army officer deployed in Delhi during the recent riots said : "This arson is the ...breaking out, said: " We cannot deal with the situation of this nature". (INDIAN EXPRESS, November 1, 1984) Strangely enough, even after this, Mr. Kaul has
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• Who are the Guilty ?
  ...e attack were master minded by some powerful organised groups. As a senior army officer deployed in Delhi during the recent riots said : "This arson is the ...breaking out, said: " We cannot deal with the situation of this nature". (INDIAN EXPRESS, November 1, 1984) Strangely enough, even after this, Mr. Kaul has
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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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• Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur
  ...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. ...charge that he was a stumbling block preventing the spread of Islam in the Indian subcontinent. '''The exact location of the beheading is marked by [[Gurdwar
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• Bhatra
  The Sultan's army was easily defeated on 17 December 1398. Timur entered Delhi and the city w ...ng of Muslim conquest until the end the [[Mughal Empire]] throughout the [[Indian subcontinent]]. In the book "[[Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them]]", Si
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• Sant Sohan Singh Ji Malacca
  ...he village of Phool (Mehraj) in the former State of Patiala was born to an army hawaldar (subsequently retired as jemandar) Punjab Singh and his wife Prem ...were arrested. Sohan Singh's troupe was arrested under Section 144 of the Indian Penal Code at Ludhiana. His elder brother, Kharak Singh, had him released o
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• Nanak in Sikkim, Ladakh and Tibet
  == Travels of Sardar Surinder Singh of the Indian Defense Accounts Service == ...idely travelled Prophet. He not only covered the length and breadth of the Indian sub-continent but also visited the Middle East, the seat of the Muslim reli
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• THE CABINET MISSION AND THE MUSLIM LEAGUE DIRECT ACTION
  ...ovincial Legislature was willing to walk into the Muslim League camp. The Indian Christians preferred to stand with the Congress with its ideal of a toleran ...t power politics and not justice and fair play are the deciding factors in Indian affairs; whereas it has become abundantly clear that the Muslims of India w
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• The Legend of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
  ...cy Case, he is reported to have told them: “my name has become a symbol of Indian revolution. The ideals and the sacrifices of the revolutionary party had ra ...rted in September 1928 into Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and Army (HSRA). The Kirti movement in Punjab and then the organization of All India
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• Gurdwara Nanaklama Sahib
  ...Autonomous Region to the north and east, Bhutan in the south-east and the Indian state of West Bengal to its south. 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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• Did you know
  ...]]s during the eighteenth century, the other one being the [[Buddha Dal]] (army of the elders).... ...t Sain]]''' whose [[Bani]] is included in the [[Guru Granth Sahib]] was an Indian saint who was influenced by the Bhagti Movement; He was barber at the court
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• Sant Teja Singh
  ...give two lectures, one on Guru Nanak and Sant tradition and the second on Indian society. The professor advised the dates of the lectures for information of ...an life. They mentioned to Teja Singh that they were earlier mislead by an Indian Sadhu.
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• Misrepresentation and vilification of Sant Bhindranwale ==
  ...nd integrity. Punjab was a state with a crime rate significantly below the Indian national figures. According to government reports , 172 persons were killed ...stead of inquiring into the affair and punishing the guilty officials, the Indian Government used this murder by ambush as the basis for canceling the arms l
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• Bhai Ram Singh and Khalsa College
  ...e inimitable qualities of the alien colonial rulers, who painted India and Indian in very unflattering terms. ...e wonderful richness of India; and with the same broad brush, they painted Indian Art as savage, brutal, sex-driven, cruel and monstrous1. John Stuart Mill t
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• Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
  ...ter.1 This conspiracy needs being unmasked by recalling the history of the Indian Muslim League over the period in which its inception and maturing occurred- ...heir honor (avoid being raped) jumped into a well following the example of Indian women of by-gone days. Only three of them were saved. There was not enough
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• KPS Gill
  ...olved in sports administration after retirement and is currently the IHF ( Indian Hockey Federation) president. ...of Sikh women - teenage girls to old women, were gangraped and molested by Indian security forces during house to house searches. Looting of the villagers’
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• 1984 Massacre of Sikhs
  ...was also alleged that Rajiv Gandhi deliberately delayed in calling in the Army, a move which many believe could have saved the lives of many. ...nally led to the resignation of Jagdish Tytler from the Union Cabinet. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also apologised to the Sikhs for the pogroms,
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• Sikh Basic & Misconceptions
  ...es during the times of the last six Gurus led to the development of a Sikh army for self-defense. A Sikh is taught to stand against injustice from whatever ...tial races," the Sikhs, Gurkhas, Rajputs, etc., for service in the British army. Sikhs by and large are [http://sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=SatGurBani#Kh
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• Sikhs and their Turban
  ...is accepted and well respected. All Sikh personnel who are serving in the Indian Armed Forces are authorized to wear Turbans and their Uniform includes: 1. Sikhs continue to rise to the highest ranks in the Indian military forces. However, many Sikhs continue to aspire to have their own i
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• Makindu Sikh Temple
  ...two days.They Left for Lamu via Athi River and reached Timau, where a few indian traders were living. The villagers had difficulty of water. They used to c ...approach of horses, just outside the Gurudwara. The sounds were akin to an army, stopping for the night. They claimed that they heard sounds of a kitchen b
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• PRELUDE TO GENOCIDE OF HINDUS AND SIKHS
  ...assed. So great and ubiquitous was the organisation of the League Private Army, the Muslim National Guards, that every Muslim mohalla, every small town, s ...Guards and along with it, the Rashtriya Swyam Sewak Sangh, a private Hindu army, unlawful associations. While this was done, the Punjab Government in a co
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• The Sikhs of Africa
  ...Congratulations & thanks are due to her for her extensive research on the Indian Community who built East Africa with their life and blood). ...s in solving the transport problem of the country. They built and operated Indian style bullock carts.
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• Baba Sri Chand
  ...ave knowledge of Ayurved [Traditional Indian medicine]. They moved like an army through the villages and towns. They visited the Kumbh [ie. the Kumbh mela,
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• Nanded 1708
  ...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 ...in the confines of a small fortress havali Guru ji could see the besieging army. Firstly Guru Ji’s eldest son , S.Ajit Singh Ji then next in line S. Jujh
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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. Noted Indian writer [[Khushwant Singh]] had this to say about Singh:
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• MARCH, 1947
  ...ing to the February, 20 statement of H. M. G. power must be transferred to Indian hands. Without a Muslim League Government in the Punjab, Pakistan would re ...he Government which was still supposed to function, but were acting as �an army of the Muslim League.� Said the non-Muslim Ministers in their letter of M
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