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  • Sikhs have a long history of military service. Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian ...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 to mark Si
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  • Sikh Khalsa Army (1801-1849) was the military force of the Sikh Empire responsible for land warfare, land defence, and al ...ely acted unilaterally and extensively consulted his high command on major military issues affecting the Empire.
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  • '''Havildar''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to '''[[Dafadar]]''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Indian Cavalry
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  • '''Dafadar''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Indian Cavalry '''Havildar''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to
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  • ...to Muslim state's protection from outside aggression, to be exempted from military service and taxes levied upon Muslim citizens.[7][8][9]
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  • ...military and the [[Operation Blue Star]] in 1984 carried out by the Indian military together with [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs|killing of thousands of Sikhs in Del
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  • ...rit word meaning nine jewels. Birbal's duties in Akbar's court were mostly military and administrative but he was also a very close friend of the emperor, who ...ime on hearing the news. The death was said to be caused by treachery, not military defeat. Sanchit Fazal killed Birbal because of his close relationship with
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  • ...pplies running out for his army and the British Army resupplied with fresh military supplies and more troops, the success in the battle, did not mean success i
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  • ...]]]] '''Qila''' is a [[Punjabi]] word which means fort. Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare. Humans have co
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  • '''General Chattar Singh Attariwalla''', was a military commander and a member of the Sikh nobility during the period of the Sikh E
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  • ...tary war hero who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra India's highest wartime military award in 1948. ==Military career==
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  • ...demolished and was located adjoining “parkarma” of the Golden Temple. ''Ex-Military Mazhabi Sikh Association'' is fighting court case against [[Shiromani Gurdw
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  • ...munshi for the lands across the River Sutluj which fell in Ludhiana (made military cantonment by British in 1842.)
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  • ...five yards from the Lahore Fort, Headquarters of the Additional Police and military pickets for the city. Water-taps supplying water to the Gurdwara estate we ...his place abetted arson and attacks on the Gurdwara. On August 11, Baulch Military entered the Gurdwara on pretext of finding out supposed bombs concealed ins
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  • ...Pakistan's first Sikh army officer. After he Graduated from the Pakistani Military Academy, Singh marched in step with his fellow cadets before Pakistani Army ...o the army by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on 17 April 2006 at the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).
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  • ...Sukalgarh which he made his main residence. After a long life, filled with military exploits and action, he died quietly in his bed in the year 1805.
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  • ...ary 1605. His grandson, Nand Chand, was a Dlwan or minister as well as a military commander in the time of Guru Gobind Singh. He took part in the battle of
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  • ...havani Das set up 12 departments called daftars to deal with all civil and military accounts. In the districts of different subahs treasuries were established On occasions, Diwan Bhavani Das also performed diplomatic and military duties. He was one of the Maharaja's counsellors at the negotiations with t
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  • ...in various cantonments all over India as her father was a Farms Officer in Military Farms. Beautiful surroundings and loneliness made her a poet at a very youn ...children from the Language Department of Punjab. Her husband was posted as Military Attache to Afghanistan in 1956 and they remained there till 1960. During th
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  • ...wan Kirpa Ram. He was sent in the following year to Kangra, with civil and military authority, to collect the revenues, and in 1832 was tranferred to Firozpur.
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  • ==Military Medals and Honors== Military titles generally referred to qualities of bravery and courage.
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  • New article being researched feel free to add any info. found some military record. ==Military==
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  • ...t his deals with Gulab Singh (PRO 30/12, 21/7); and about Ellenborough's military policy and bellicosity towards the Sikhs (PRO 30/12 (72). ...ptly terminated the Tripartite Treaty, and decided to reestablish British "military character" by the collection of a large British force on the Company's "wea
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  • ...the heyday of Wazlr Hira Singh Dogra's authority when he was given a minor military command for the maintenance of which a few districts were leased out to him ...h his office. He was relieved of the office of Wazir, but no change in the military command was made.
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  • The '''Param Vir Chakra (PVC)''' is [[India]]'s highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in th
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  • ...t the same year. In September, he died of cholera and was buried with full military honours within the precincts of Jahangir's tomb.
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  • ...neral, contained speculations on the ability of the British to destroy the military might of Ranjit Singh. According to J.D. Cunningham, a young British office
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  • A Military Police checkpost is located at the entry point. Army personnel are required
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  • ...he West, some have compared the battle to the Battle of Thermopylae. Sikh military personnel and Sikh non-miltary people commemorate the battle around the Wor
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  • ...in 1796, was sent to LAHORE in 1829 in order to replace his brother as the military adviser of Maharaja RANJIT SINGH, but the two brothers failed to win the co
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  • No one in the Canadian military had ever had to decide what type of turban was appropriate for an air force At 35, Tatla was a married father of two with no previous military training who had arrived at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt west of Vi
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  • ...rahiIlahi Bakhsh. General Ilalu Bakhsh's lopkhdnd look part in most of the military campaigns of the Maharaja. It was employed to great effect during the conqu
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  • ...ie, the Resident at Lahore, did not approve of the assumption of civil and military authority by his subordinate. Abbott, however, ignored the protestations fr
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  • ...executed. After their death rioting became an ever changing scenario. The military was brought in to control the fighting between the Singhs. Many were killed
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  • ...njit Singh]], who was wounded fifteen times and was a recipient of highest military award Izazi-i-Sardari and civil award of Nirmal Bud Ujjal Didar.He was with ...Gurmukh Singh Lamba was nominated by Khalsa Sarkar Wazir Jawahar Singh as military and civil Commander to dconsolidate the gains of Sikh Army & the Fort of Ja
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  • 10. 27 Oct. 1947: Indian military invasion in Kashmir- two thirds of Kashmir occupied by India
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  • ...1971 when Delhi signed a treaty with the Soviet Union that included mutual military assistance in case of war. ...on the other hand, had developed a "special relationship" with Pakistan's military dictator, General Yahya Khan. In a White House conversation with Dr Kissing
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  • ...as instituted in 1769 and came to be considered among the most prestigious military awards in the world... The order was awarded to officers and generals for s ...Gurmukh Singh's 'splendid courage' and 'heroism' which won him the highest military honor for gallantry in the battlefield <ref name = "citation"/> :
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  • ...irl to join the estimated 200,000 women serving in the branches of the US military who are the fist women ever to be playing an essential part in the battlefi Brought up in the very isolated town of Earlimart, California her brush with military uniforms dates back to 2001 when she was a freshman (9th grader) in a high
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  • ==Sikhs tradition in the military== ...r their martial prowess, compose more than half of the generals in India's military.
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  • ...[Gulab Singh Bhangi]], a Dhillon Jatt, who gained renown in Punjab for her military leadership.
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  • ...in the command he held. Jodh Singh took part in several of Ranjit Singh's military campaigns and was killed in action in Kashmir in 1814.
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  • Sikhs have a long history of military service. Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian ...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 to mark Si
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  • ...il Affairs Brigade (one of only two bearded and turbaned Sikhs in the U.S. Military and has otherwise been self-employed as a medical doctor since 1979. He won
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  • The '''Rattray Sikhs''' The Bengal Military Police Battalion raised in January 1856, by Capt T Rattray consisted of 500
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  • ...j Singh to Singapore, Kharak Singh offered to go with him. Under a British military guard, the two were put aboard the ship Muhammad Shah which left Calcutta o
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  • ...d Singh was appointed an agent of the Sikh Darbar at LUDHIANA, the British military station and political agency. He was later sent as the Darbar`s envoy to th
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  • ...spired by the exploits of the Sadhu-warrior [[Mahant Kirpal Das]]. With no military training he joined the Guru's army. Given a horse, a sword and shield he
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  • ...occupation of his territory. As commander of the post and performing both military and political functions, Ochterlony realized the strategic importance of Lu ...or the security of British interests. But Lord Minto kept his word and the military post was withdrawn in April 1810, and Ludhiana was converted into a politic
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  • ...ting down the passengers who tried to come out of the train. The Pakistan Military made a show of firing, but their fire was directed towards the sky and not ...the platform out of the compartments were shot dead by the police and the military and those who went out of the compartments towards the maidan were butchere
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  • ...ce 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 experience Military Career
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  • ...verall decline of the Mughal Empire, particularly in Punjab caused by Sikh military action against it. This left a power vacuum that was eventually filled by t ...1780 AD). This is one of the reasons given by scholars why such a powerful military force never conquered and governed large parts of India outside Punjab. Con
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  • ...ara and the commander of Darbar troops in 1844. He was called to lead Sikh military operations against Jasrota to forestall the machinations of Raja Gulab Sing
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  • ...established in 1932 in the heart of the city but during the government of military dictator General Ziaul Haq in 1984. The Nabi Bux Government College was est
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  • ...the sultan of Bengal but died in 1530 before he could consolidate his military gains. He left behind as legacies his memoirs (Babur Namah), several beau
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  • ...u ji gave the location of well which was once sweet but due to foolness of military they tried to dug it deep so sweet water mixed with Saline water. Now Machi ...the old well was found during partition and as there was no sikh so again military found this place in 80's and there was small room now it is under kar Sewa
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  • ...and police units which formed the nucleus from which the modern police and military forces of the nation were derived. The first of these units was the Perak S
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  • '''Chet Singh''', military commander, engineer and a kardar, i.e. a revenue officer, under [[Maharaja
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  • ...s also given. The author relies for his news on official reports which the military governor of Peshawar received from various districts and this makes the wor
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  • ...the fortress. '''Lashkar''', formerly a separate town that originated as a military camp, lies to the south, and '''Morar''', also a formerly separate town, li
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  • ...ling Sikh insurrection. According to Akhbar-i-Darbdr Mu'alla, high ranking military generals such as Bakhshi ul-Mulk, Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Ghazi ud-Din Khan After many failed plots against the Saiyid brothers, his wazir and military commander, the real power holders of the kingdom, Farrukh-Siyar was blinded
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  • But he had no military training, and was discharged from the service soon afterwards.
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  • ...its debris has been used for road construction. The fort was utilized as a military Prison in the earlier year of the British rule but was afterwards dismantle
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  • ...the Cantt. The Battle of Saragarhi Gurudwara is a part of the Cantonment's military history as the men in the battle were mostly from adjoining areas.
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  • ...y, spirituality, education, artistry, music, cuisine, science, technology, military warfare, architecture, traditions, values and history. ...nd gave it an additional dimension. This further increased the martial and military dimensions of the Punjabi culture and of the Punjabi People.
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  • ...mpletion. The work provides information concerning Maharaja Ranjit Singh's military administration recruitment, equipment, scales of pay, organization and comp The military accounts of the three arms are given under sub heads: infantry regiments, c
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  • Taken from www.bharat-rakshak.com , an excellent website about Indian military.
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  • ...he killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless Indians by a senior British military officer on 13 April 1919, which history refers to as the [[Jallianwalla Bag
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  • ...ara and the commander of Darbar troops in 1844. He was called to lead Sikh military operations against Jasrota to forestall the machinations of Raja Gulab Sing
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  • ...f the country as a whole. Besides the police and para-military forces, the military also had to be brought on the scene to deal with the situation.
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  • ...now Pakistan) to the Caucasus Mountains (north). He gained prominence as a military leader during the Afghan occupation of Iran in the 1720s. Acting on behalf ...for the mass murder of many civilians, especially non-Muslims, during his military campaigns.
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  • ...ith Ranjit Singh's help. Included in the correspondence is a report on the military strength of the Sikhs by Sir Henry Fane, the British commanderinchief, who ...AngloSikh war was really motivated to destroy the Sikhs as a political and military power. Also fresh light is thrown on Lal Singh's administration and the Kas
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  • ==Military career== ..., 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 posted for a
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  • ...ndulge in political activities and get in trouble. He had him hired in the military.
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  • ...as the Additional Director General Military Operations (ADGMO) at Army HQ, Military Operations Directorate. During his tenure as ADGMO, he contributed positive ...of Rajasthan. He subsequently led 1 Corps during Operation Parakram - the military standoff against Pakistan - from December 2001 to December 2002. He was the
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  • ...tains. After his return from France, Ventura paid a glowing tribute to the military genius of the Pandit, and remarked that he had found the troops in a better
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  • After several military attempts by the Afganis who had once ruled part of the Gakkar homelands in
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  • ...as the Additional Director General Military Operations (ADGMO) at Army HQ, Military Operations Directorate. During his tenure as ADGMO, he contributed positive ...of Rajasthan. He subsequently led 1 Corps during Operation Parakram - the military standoff against Pakistan - from December 2001 to December 2002. He was the
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  • ...British got involved in Europe. While Udham Singh Kasel started imparting military training to party volunteers and Kartar Singh Sarabha went to the eastern c ...ps in Rawalpindi, Bannu, Nowshera and Peshawar cantonments. The plan for a military and general rising on 21 February 1915, later advanced to 19 Fehruary 1915,
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  • ...gh contracted tuberculosis and spent his final days in a Kitchener Ontario military hospital, dying at age 25 in 1919. His grave in Kitchener Ontario is the on ''"Using that, I went to Ottawa and tracked down his military records,"'' Brar said. ''"And it opened up a whole can of worms."''
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  • ...ahpur districts. Under Maharaja Sher Singh, Ram Singh received various military commands, and his personaiyogrrwas raised to rupees fifteen thousand per an
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  • ...d to the military authorities. Thus Punjab was vir­tually converted into a Military Occupied Area as is done in the case of the occupied lands of an enemy coun ...under ground for fear of arbitrary arrests, were arrested and detained in military camps.
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  • ...argest private security agency in the world providing security to vital US military installations across eight states; to federal court houses with contracts f ...cal federal government facilities, state and local government agencies and military installations.
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  • ...is chamberlain, Khushal Singh. The latter is shown as dreading to lead the military expedition to Peshawar whereas the former is presented as seeking it volunt
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  • 1923 Subedar Amar Singh of Dhaliwal, a military pensioner and a member of the SGPC was arrested.
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  • ...ought in the Prince's Yusafzai and Kullu campaigns and held both civil and military appointments under him when he was the Nazim of Kashmir. He afterwards serv
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  • ...sted in the Burmese military police. During World War I (1914-18), Burmese military police was converted into a regular army battalion and drafted to Mesopotam
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  • ...e young lady, Aung Sung Ky, fighting for the liberation of Burmese people. Military rule has disciplined the country and Burmese people have acquired traits of ...of 7th Burma Battalion. It was maintained by Sikh Officers of the British Military Police for many years. The British developed Rangoon city as a port and a b
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  • ...as the governor of the Jalandhar Doab during the absence of bis father on military expeditions. After the death of his father in 1814, he was confirmed as gov
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  • ...s 63 lakh—to secure the release of whom the Pakistan Army embarked on a military operation. But in the meantime, the security situation became so fragile ==Military operations ongoing==
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  • * 1762-1801, Sikh Confederacy military power rating increases rapidly.
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  • ...haraja Ranjit Singh first employed Ajudhia Parshad in 1819 to serve in the military office in Kashmir. Three years later, he was recalled to Lahore and appoint
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  • ...bad, the current capital of Pakistan, in the province of Punjab. It is the military headquarters of the Pakistan Armed Forces and also served as the nation's c ...quarters of the Northern Command and Rawalpindi became the largest British military garrison in British India.
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  • ...assumed name of Azad Beg. He took up Turkish citizenship and graduated in military sciences, receiving a commission in the army. Five years later, Teja Singh
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  • ...i-Khas in 1835. This alarmed the British, who had come to see the emerging military power of Punjab as a threat, to such a degree that they in 1837 issued orde
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  • ===Kidnapped Sikhs recovered in Pakistan: military=== .../ALeqM5jp_kteRcf6lsSo7iKj3Wbsn4hiAA Kidnapped Sikhs recovered in Pakistan: military] (AFP) – 1 March 2010
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  • ...f Representatives. Many more who have contributed to the American economy, military and the lifestyle. It is believed that there are at least 500,000 Sikhs are
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  • ...ar hero, who was awarded the [[Param Vir Chakra]], India's highest wartime military award. ==Military career==
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  • ...er 1984 as Director, Medical Services of the Indian Air Force, the highest military rank available to physician officers. The P.V.S.M. award is India's highest military decoration for distinguished peacetime service. He has also been a past Pre
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  • ...t with military precision; even his walk was of a military style. He was a military man in his walk, speech and behaviour. Whenever he used to reach the colleg
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  • ...ing to the first AngloAfghan war and the Sikh cooperation in the British military operations on the Khaibar, especially the despatches of Wade from Peshawa
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