https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&feed=atom&action=historyGurdwara Bhai Joga Singh (Peshawar) - Revision history2024-03-29T11:55:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.7https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&diff=90492&oldid=prevAllenwalla at 12:47, 14 June 20102010-06-14T12:47:41Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==From an interview <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </del>Sikh Taranjit Singh==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==From an interview <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a </ins>Sikh <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named </ins>Taranjit Singh==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Hari </del>Singh <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwa</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </del>was said to weigh 250 kgs<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so hard, </del>his head got dislocated from his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shoulders</del>. His chest was equal to that of seven people<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. No horse could carry his weight, finally one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight</del>.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Taranjit tells us about how this gurudwara came to be. “It was founded by Hari </ins>Singh <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwah</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">” he says, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah </ins>was said to weigh 250 kgs<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He </ins>was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>his head got dislocated from his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shoulder</ins>. His chest was equal to that of seven people.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==History==</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am tempted to ask if he could fly when Taranjit continues: “No horse could carry his weight</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Only recently have </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surviving Sikhs and their descendants, started coming down from the mountains.</del>” <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Today Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Would you happen to know </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name of that horse?</ins>” <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I ask</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Maybe about 800,” he says. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I (the interviewer is not named) find later that this figure is hearsay, it could be less, it could be more. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains,” says Taranjit. “Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains.” Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Taranjit then introduces us to Sardar Shona Singh, the pramukh of the gurudwara. “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Sardar Shona Singh says. “Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us three days just to clean this place up.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Allenwallahttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&diff=90487&oldid=prevAllenwalla: unclear if Sikh Taranjit Singh, was a Sikh named Taranjit Singh, who conducted interviews (of the locals) or if he was the local who was interviewed?2010-06-14T12:29:51Z<p>unclear if Sikh Taranjit Singh, was a Sikh named Taranjit Singh, who conducted interviews (of the locals) or if he was the local who was interviewed?</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>Peshawar<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Pakistan)</del>, which was founded by [[Hari Singh Nalwa]] (Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">;</del>s fabled General) when Peshawar was part of the Sikh Kingdom<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>is named in honour of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Gursikh </del>[[Bhai Joga Singh]], who <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left his wedding when called by the [[Hukham]] (order) of the guru. This Gurdwara is situated </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jogan Shah area of Namakmandi of Peshawar City. In </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">morning the Sangat </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peshawar is held and in the evening the Parakash of the </del>[[Guru <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Granth Sahib</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">takes place. Sardar Shona Singh is currently the pramukh of the Gurdwara</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is situated in Jogan Shah area of Namakmandi of </ins>Peshawar <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">City. The Gurdwara</ins>, which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>was founded by [[Hari Singh Nalwa]] (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'</ins>s fabled General) when Peshawar was part of the Sikh Kingdom<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It </ins>is named in honour of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>[[Bhai Joga Singh]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a young Gursikh </ins>who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had lived </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">presence </ins>of [[Guru <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gobind Singh</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at Anandpur for many years</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From an interview by Sikh Taranjit Singh</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Hari Singh Nalwa</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the fabled general of Ranjit Singh’s army</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> was said to weigh 250 kgs</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </del>was the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strongest man in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">universe</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Once</del>, he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">slapped a man so hard</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his head got dislocated from his shoulders. His chest was equal to that </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seven people. No horse could carry </del>his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weight</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finally one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One day his parents</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eager to see him married</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">arrived at Anandpur to escort him back to Peshawar. The Guru permitted him to depart</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">saying that he must return at once when recalled</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Back in Peshawar Joga Singh </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">midst of his nuptials and had completed only two of the customary four circumambulations when a Sikh arrived and delivered </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru's letter of recall</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As the Guru had used the words, '''at once''</ins>, he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left the ceremony midway</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">despite the many and loud protestations </ins>of his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relatives</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immediately setting out for [[Anandpur]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hari </del>Singh Nalwa <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">built around 2500 gurudwaras </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Punjab, under </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Today around 800 of them still exist. Across the country (Pakistan)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in fact</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there are many of these gurdwaras </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike, because the Sikh religion all but dissapeared when the partition </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">India took place</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to survive the grab for the land and property as the their Muslim neighbors attempted to rid Pakistan of its Sikhs and Hindus</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Jogasingh3.JPG|thumb|200px|Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==From an interview by Sikh Taranjit Singh==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Hari </ins>Singh Nalwa<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, who was said to weigh 250 kgs, was the strongest man </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">universe</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Once</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he slapped a man so hard</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his head got dislocated from his shoulders. His chest was equal to </ins>that of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seven people</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">No horse could carry his weight</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finally one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Only recently have the surviving Sikhs<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>and their descendants, started coming down from the mountains.” Today Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==History==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hari Singh Nalwa built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Today around 800 of them still exist across Pakistan. Many of them have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike, after the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains, to survive the murderous grab for their land and property, as their former Muslim neighbors - joined by thousands of Muslims fleeing similar scenes of persecution in India, attempted to rid Pakistan of its Sikhs and Hindus during the British Partition of India.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us thirty three days just to clean this place up.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us thirty three days just to clean this place up.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The beautiful three storied Gurdwara also includes a Punjabi school for Sikh children which imparts both a secular and religious education. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The beautiful three storied Gurdwara also includes a Punjabi school for Sikh children which imparts both a secular and religious education. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situated </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">peshawar at pakistan. It is made on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name of gursikh called </del>Bhai Joga <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sikh </del>who left his wedding <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on his order of guru. It was founded </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hari Singh Nalwa. Sardar Shona Singh, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pramukh </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gurudwara at present</del>. This Gurdwara is situated in Jogan Shah <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">locality </del>of Namakmandi of Peshawar City <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where </del>Sangat of Peshawar is held in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">morning and </del>evening <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>Parakash of Granth Sahib takes place.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Peshawar, Pakistan), which was founded by [[Hari Singh Nalwa]] (Maharaja Ranjit Singh]];s fabled General) when Peshawar was part of the Sikh Kingdom, </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">honour of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gursikh [[</ins>Bhai Joga <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Singh]], </ins>who left his wedding <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when called </ins>by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Hukham]] (order) </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">guru</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>This Gurdwara is situated in Jogan Shah <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">area </ins>of Namakmandi of Peshawar City<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In the morning the </ins>Sangat of Peshawar is held <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>in the evening <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>Parakash of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the [[Guru </ins>Granth Sahib<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>takes place<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Sardar Shona Singh is currently the pramukh of the Gurdwara</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In </del>an interview by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a sikh </del>Sikh Taranjit Singh<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: Hari </del>Singh <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwah</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“the </del>general of Ranjit Singh’s army<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah </del>was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>his head got dislocated from his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shoulder</del>. His chest was equal to that of seven people.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">” “No </del>horse could carry his weight<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Then </del>one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.”Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maybe about 800 exists. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place. All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains</del>.” <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From </ins>an interview by Sikh Taranjit Singh<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, “Hari </ins>Singh <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwa</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the fabled </ins>general of Ranjit Singh’s army<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so hard, </ins>his head got dislocated from his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shoulders</ins>. His chest was equal to that of seven people. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">No </ins>horse could carry his weight<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, finally </ins>one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Acc to Sardar Shona </del>Singh<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: “This gurudwara was shut down </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1947</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">” Then</del>, in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1980</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pakistan government gave us permission </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">start it again. It took us thirty three days just </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">clean this place up</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hari </ins>Singh <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwa built around 2500 gurudwaras </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Punjab</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Today around 800 of them still exist. Across the country (Pakistan)</ins>, in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fact</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there are many of these gurdwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike, because the Sikh religion all but dissapeared when the partition of India took place. All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mountains, </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">survive the grab for the land and property as the their Muslim neighbors attempted </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rid Pakistan of its Sikhs and Hindus</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Gurdwara <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is constructed as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beautiful 3- storeyed building</del>. Prakash of Guru Granth Sahib takes place and local <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>foreign sangats <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meet daily. There is a Punjabi school for Sikh children which imparts secular education alongwith the religious education</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Only recently have the surviving Sikhs, and their descendants, started coming down from the mountains.” Today Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">According to Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us thirty three days just to clean this place up.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beautiful three storied </ins>Gurdwara <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also includes a Punjabi school for Sikh children which imparts both </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">secular and religious education</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Allenwallahttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&diff=73664&oldid=prevHpt lucky at 18:26, 19 April 20092009-04-19T18:26:36Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' is situated in peshawar at pakistan. It is made on the name of gursikh called Bhai Joga Sikh who left his wedding on his order of guru. It was founded by Hari Singh Nalwa. Sardar Shona Singh, the pramukh of the gurudwara at present. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' is situated in peshawar at pakistan. It is made on the name of gursikh called Bhai Joga Sikh who left his wedding on his order of guru. It was founded by Hari Singh Nalwa. Sardar Shona Singh, the pramukh of the gurudwara at present<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This Gurdwara is situated in Jogan Shah locality of Namakmandi of Peshawar City where Sangat of Peshawar is held in the morning and evening and Parakash of Granth Sahib takes place</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In an interview by a sikh Sikh Taranjit Singh: Hari Singh Nalwah, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man and his head got dislocated from his shoulder. His chest was equal to that of seven people.” “No horse could carry his weight. Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight.”Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maybe about 800 exists. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place. All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains.” Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In an interview by a sikh Sikh Taranjit Singh: Hari Singh Nalwah, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man and his head got dislocated from his shoulder. His chest was equal to that of seven people.” “No horse could carry his weight. Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight.”Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maybe about 800 exists. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place. All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains.” Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Acc to Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us three days just to clean this place up.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Acc to Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thirty </ins>three days just to clean this place up.”</div></td></tr>
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</table>Hpt luckyhttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&diff=73662&oldid=prevHpt lucky at 18:14, 19 April 20092009-04-19T18:14:39Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Taranjit tells us about how this gurudwara came to be</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“It </del>was founded by Hari Singh <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwah,” he says, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] Hari </del>Singh <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwah was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strongest man in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">universe. Once, he slapped a man and his head got dislocated from his shoulder. His chest was equal to that of seven people</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh''' is situated in peshawar at pakistan. It is made on the name of gursikh called Bhai Joga Sikh who left his wedding on his order of guru</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </ins>was founded by Hari Singh <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nalwa</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sardar Shona </ins>Singh<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pramukh of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gurudwara at present</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am tempted </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ask if </del>he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could fly when Taranjit continues: </del>“No horse could carry his weight. Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In an interview by a sikh Sikh Taranjit Singh: Hari Singh Nalwah, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, </ins>he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">slapped a man and his head got dislocated from his shoulder. His chest was equal to that of seven people.” </ins>“No horse could carry his weight. Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.”Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maybe about 800 exists. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place. All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains</ins>.” <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Would you happen </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">know </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name of that horse?</del>” <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I ask.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Acc </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sardar Shona Singh: “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Then, in 1980, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us three days just to clean this place up.</ins>”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Anyway,” he continues, “Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.”</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“How many of these exist today?”</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Maybe about 800,” he says. I find later that this figure is hearsay, that it could be less, it could be more. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains,” says Taranjit. “Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains.” Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Taranjit introduces us to Sardar Shona Singh, the pramukh of the gurudwara. “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Sardar Shona </del>Singh <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">says. “Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us three days just to clean this place up.”</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
</table>Hpt luckyhttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Gurdwara_Bhai_Joga_Singh_(Peshawar)&diff=48229&oldid=prevHpt lucky: New page: Image:Jogasingh.jpg Taranjit tells us about how this gurudwara came to be. “It was founded by Hari Singh Nalwah,” he says, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire...2008-02-20T12:54:33Z<p>New page: <a href="/index.php/File:Jogasingh.jpg" title="File:Jogasingh.jpg">Image:Jogasingh.jpg</a> Taranjit tells us about how this gurudwara came to be. “It was founded by Hari Singh Nalwah,” he says, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire...</p>
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Taranjit tells us about how this gurudwara came to be. “It was founded by Hari Singh Nalwah,” he says, “the general of Ranjit Singh’s army. [The Sikh empire once extended to Peshawar.] Hari Singh Nalwah was said to weigh 250 kgs. He was the strongest man in the universe. Once, he slapped a man and his head got dislocated from his shoulder. His chest was equal to that of seven people.”<br />
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I am tempted to ask if he could fly when Taranjit continues: “No horse could carry his weight. Then one day a horse was found from Baluchistan that could carry his weight.”<br />
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“Would you happen to know the name of that horse?” I ask.<br />
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Taranjit looks at me oddly. “Horses don’t have names,” he says.<br />
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“Anyway,” he continues, “Hari Singh Nalwah built around 2500 gurudwaras in Punjab, under the patronage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.”<br />
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“How many of these exist today?”<br />
<br />
“Maybe about 800,” he says. I find later that this figure is hearsay, that it could be less, it could be more. Across the country, in fact, there are ex-gurudwaras that have been converted into schools, jails, homes and suchlike. The religion was almost wiped out when the partition of India took place.<br />
<br />
“All the Sikhs either shifted to India or went into the mountains,” says Taranjit. “Only recently have they started coming down from the mountains.” Peshawar has more Sikhs than any other city in Pakistan. Pushto is the mother tongue of most of them.<br />
<br />
Taranjit introduces us to Sardar Shona Singh, the pramukh of the gurudwara. “This gurudwara was shut down in 1947,” Sardar Shona Singh says. “Then, in 1980, the Pakistan government gave us permission to start it again. It took us three days just to clean this place up.”</div>Hpt lucky