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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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  • Sikhs in Indian Air force
    The first Indian, or indeed Asian, to procure aeroplanes was the then young Maharaja of Pati ...begin, Sikhs remain at the forefront of aviation activities be it with the Indian Air Force, Naval Air Arm, Army Aviation Corps, or the air wings of the Coas
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  • WHY SIKHS SHOULDN'T CELEBRATE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
    #REDIRECT [[Sikhs & Indian Independence]]
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  • INA
    ...ortunately this ended with the Sikhs fighting against Sikhs in the British Indian Army.
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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 ...British Empire]]<ref>Diffusion of Sikhism and recent migration patterns of Sikhs in India by A. K. Dutt1 and S. Devgun. Pub. GeoJournal Volume 1, Number 5 /
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  • Sikhism in Portugal
    ...000 strong Indian community in Portugal. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 Sikhs in the country. ...ss-plumbing, electrical services, painting, repairs etc. Most of them hold Indian passports and are concentrated in Lisbon and its suburbs but are mobile and
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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). Out of 2125 Indians killed in the atrocities by the British, 1550 (73%) were Sikhs.
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  • July 4
    '''1955''' Indian police entered Darbar Sahib complex and arrested several Akali leaders. ...derstanding of being accorded a constitutional status of co-sharers in the Indian sovereignty along with the majority community, which solemn understanding n
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  • Mass Murder of the Sikhs in Kashmir
    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
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  • Ishar Singh (Battle of Saragarhi)
    '''Havildar Ishar Singh''' was the leader of the 36th Sikhs of the Sikh Regiment. He is best known for fighting a last stand against 10 ...ommemorate the battle around the World every year on September 12th, which Sikhs is referred to as "Saragarhi Day".
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  • July 28
    1991 Sikhs continue to be harrassed under Section 216 of the IndianPenal Code. Here is Notice under Section 216, Indian Penal Code
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  • Highly Distinguished Sikhs (Modern Era)
    '''Highly Distinguished Sikhs (modern era)''' Sikhs in the modern era which have made contributions at the international or wor
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  • Rattray Sikhs
    ...egiment went through the villages challenging men to wrestle with him. The Sikhs couldn‘t resist the offer but the condition that Capt. Rattray had demand ...he World Wars and even today remain a front line infantry battalion of the Indian Army.
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  • Sikhism in Kuwait
    ...dwara in Kuwait but have heard that Sikhs do gather in large number at the Indian Embassy during special occasions.
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  • July 22
    ...ge of time, the Sikh institution's executives decided to take the Canadian Sikhs into immediate confidence on the kind of action required. This was done by ...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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  • Dafadar
    ...Infantry or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army. '''Havildar''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army.
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  • Havildar
    '''Havildar''' is a rank used in the military of [[India]] and refers to an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army. ...Infantry or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army.
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  • Ignoring the threat of terrorism, Sikhs Arrive
    ...|thumb|left|Pakistani paramilitary soldiers patrol beside a train carrying Indian Sikh pilgrims as it arrives at Wagah, Pakistan.–AFP Photo]] '''Indian sikhs arrive in Pakistan'''
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  • December 27
    The Sikhs refused Jawahar Lal Nehru permisssion to speak from a religious shrine. Khalistan supported and the Indian army takes control of all Sikh functions.
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  • Religion in Punjab
    ...air and leaving Punjab, Hinduism may become the dominant religion! Wake Up Sikhs in the west!! Do parchar! Its not to late! Main religion in the Indian Majha is Sikhi.
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  • Sir Lepel Griffin
    ...Order of the Star of India), was a British Author of several books on the Sikhs. During his years in India he was personally aquainted with all the noble f Ranjit Singh (Indian Rulers series)
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  • The 1982 Dharam Yudh Morcha
    ...ness amongst the Sikhs of the noble teachings of the Guru tha neither must Sikhs oppress and neither should they live under oppression. ...of Sikhs were killed in fake encounters by the Indian security forces. The Sikhs feeling helpless turned to the message of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, endorsed by
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  • Itihas Guru Khaia
    ...name was Pandit Ganda Singh, is a historical account, in Hindi, of the Sikhs, beginning with Guru Nanak (1469-1539) and terminating with the post Band ...vision of Indian society into a fourfold caste system and the contemporary Indian milieu.
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  • Jaat
    ...system describes the social stratification and social restrictions in the Indian subcontinent, in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamou ...an background still continue to follow the old cultural practises from the Indian subcontinent.
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  • Dharam Yudh Morcha
    ...the minds of Sikhs the noble teachings of their Gurus, 'that neither must Sikhs oppress nor neither should they live under - oppression'. Quoting the Sant: ...hs were killed in 'staged' encounters by the Indian security forces. Many Sikhs feeling helpless turned to the message of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, who after l
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  • Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
    ...Chandra Bose, from Germany to the Far-Eastern front in June 1943 that the Indian National Army was revived and Mohan Singh reinstated to his former command ...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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  • Kashmir and the Sikhs
    "Kashmir and the Sikhs An Insight" is a Book of 125 pages which is a translation in English of Ano ...sequently its English version was prepared by author's son Catp D S Sodhi (Indian Navy) and published from Srinagar during 2007.
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  • Holocaust
    ...an military together with [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs|killing of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi]]. * [[Operation Blue Star]] and [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs]]
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  • K.P.S. Gill factfile
    ...The indisputable fact that in his reign as Chief hundreds of thousands of Sikhs were brutally murdered speaks for itself. He has been banned by many countr India Used Him to Commit Genocide Against Sikhs, Kashmiris
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  • Vishva Hindu Parishad
    ...Hindu Parishad (Translation: World Hindu Council), abbreviated VHP, is an Indian right-wing Hindu nationalist organization based on the ideology of Hindutva Sikhs does not regard themselves as denoted by word Hindu, due to difference beli
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  • Lashkar militant admits killing Sikhs in Chittisinghpura
    ...o so by his commanders and that he knew nothing about the plot to kill the Sikhs until he stood in an orchard where the 35 people were killed. ...to kill innocents. (But) if Lashkar e Taiyba told us to kill those people (Sikhs), then it was right to do it. I have no regrets," he added.
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  • Dalip Singh
    ...ch India sent a contingent of seven athletes. In this seven-man squad, two Sikhs, Dalip and Palam made their debut. ...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
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  • Devinder Singh Duggal
    ...s-of-shourie.html '''* A Rejoinder to the articles of shourie published in indian express dated 12, 13, 14 May 1982'''] ...com/2015/05/truth-about-sikhs-devinder-singh-duggal.html * Truth About The Sikhs - Devinder Singh Duggal]
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  • 1919
    ...or the independence of India. Its members were Indian residents, primarily Sikhs, settled in USA. Their prime objective was to actively cause rebellion amon
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  • Pak to allow Sikh weddings under Anand Marriage Act
    ...f India scrapped the separate marriage Act for Sikhs with the result that, Sikhs had no option but to register their marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act. ...to be given a Hindu marriage certificate after they got married. But the Sikhs in India are helpless because of Article 25 of the constitution which recog
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  • July 1
    ...Singh of his village was arrested and accused of providing rations to the Sikhs. Bhai Taru Singh admitted the facts. Nawab Zakaria Khan ordered the removal ...s done to boost the morale of the policemen as well as create terror among Sikhs.
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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 ...usiasm from these shrines. These sources of religio-spiritual power of the Sikhs have always been the eye-sore of contemporary anti Sikh forces and they on
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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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  • Uttar Pardesh Sikh Pratinidhi Board
    ...es of Agra and Oudh in British times, on the possession and carrying by Sikhs of kirpan or sword, one of the five symbols of the Khalsa. A meeting of The aims of the Board included protection of the rights and interests of the Sikhs, dissemination of the Sikh thought and culture and establishment of institu
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  • Hitler on Sikhism
    ...n) he makes derogatory remarks against Indian people, although complements Sikhs specifically. The translated version is below: ...due to the dominant Aryan traits present amongst them. In particular, the Sikhs produce the strongest soldiers. There is no question that eventually they w
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  • Budge Budge
    ...oup of Sikhs to challenge the exclusion laws enacted by Canada to restrict Indian immigration. ...iers lost to Clive's troops. This may have been the start of the series of Indian defeats to the expanding British colonial forces in the 18th century.
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  • MIHTAR SIKHS
    ...tonsure rites. Traditionally treated as untouchables even by the highcasie Sikhs, efforts are now afootjointly by the Gurdwara Board ofTakht Sachkhand Sri H
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  • 1947
    ...roops. Jawaharlal Nehru becomes Prime Minister of India. Nehru unfurls the Indian tricolor on the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort, symbolically marking On 10 - th Oct. 1947 the Sikhs were declared a tribe of cruel dacoits and looters (Jraem Pesha Kaum) by th
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  • Pilot
    * [[Sikhs in Indian Air force]]
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  • Sikh Marriage Act SFJ's Memorandum to UN Seeking Intervention
    ...pon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to amend article 25 of the Indian Constitution to restore the independent status of Sikhism. ...riages is yet another instant of discrimination based on religion towards Sikhs.
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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: ...Khalistani movement. On Oct 25 1990, while they were crossing border, the Indian Army was passing, and Malaghar Singh with anger, opened fire, as consequenc
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  • Dashmesh Regiment
    ..., a previously unrecognized group of Sikh terrorists that counted moderate Sikhs as well as Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. ...sponsibility for the attack was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment a wing of Indian counter intelligence.
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  • Sikhism in Mauritius
    ...ough there were no Sikhs that came to Mauritius with the initial influx of Indian laborers in the 19th century, sporadic immigration from India has continued ...started coming with growing population and relations with India . Some of Sikhs are doctors or factories owners who are contributing to GDP of Mauritius wi
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  • Sikh Global Village
    ...ds towards a Sikh for help and guidance as they are sure that he, being an Indian, would be helpful. ...munity. Several of them speak only Spanish, but others have retained their Indian links, speak Punjabi and visit India. In a town called Rosario de la Fronte
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  • Sikhs around 1900
    ...story. This articles is about the comments made by these writers about the Sikhs during this initial phase of contact. ...Of The Rise, Progress, amp Present Condition Of The Sect And Nation Of The Sikhs (vol II)... Author: Charles Marivale, Other info: History. English, '''18
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  • Operation Wood Rose
    ...which its builder, the first Sikh Guru to ever call for any arming of the Sikhs had asked for [[Miri and Piri]] - two swords. ...that surrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army.
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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 ...uage, and his paper was unintelligible to the great majority as few of the Sikhs could read a word of English. His influence at the time for harm was theref
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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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  • Engal Secret and Political Consultations
    ...ndence relating to Holkar's intrusion into the [[Punjab]], cis [[Sutlej]] Sikhs, and general principles of British policy in the trans - Yamuna region (18
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  • Bahr ul Mawwaj
    ...y, and hence the title. Its last part divided into six sections deals with Indian Timurides (i.e. the Mughals), with an account of Nadir Shah and the Durrani ...story include martyrdom of the sons of Guru.Gobind Singh; practices of the Sikhs;
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  • CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS OF 1919
    ...Committee, Mr Montagu and others. The deputationists claimed seats for the Sikhs on the same principle as was being applied in the case of Muslims in Bihar 1. Gurmukh Nihal Singh, Landmarks in Indian Constitutional and National Development. Delhi, 1963
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  • Dalip Singh Saund
    ...nia from January 3, 1957-January 3, 1963. He was the first Asian American, Indian American and Sikh member of the US Congress. ...f South Asian descent were called at that time (although many of them were Sikhs and Muslims), to become naturalized citizens. After the Luce-Celler Act was
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  • Chittisinghpura murder of Sikhs : Letter from SAD (A)
    ...e to gather more proof and evidence of the Chittisinghpura mass murders of Sikhs, their families and their children in Kashmir valley. This massacre or select killings of Sikhs took place in the Kashmir valley in February 2000. I have now come to be in
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  • Post-Independence : Broken Promises & Discrimination
    ...es are no longer recognised. To get a marriage license in "secular India", Sikhs have to sign a form entitled "The Hindu Marriage Act of 1951" ...d socially by the Partition with Pakistan. Instead of Government help, the Sikhs began facing economical, social and religious discrimination.
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  • Importance of Turban
    ...khs constitute only 1.8% of the total population and as such any turbanned Indian you see behind the plough or in the street is not necessarily a Sikh. ...Africa and dark blue with 'Akalis'- a reigio-politico organisation of the Sikhs.
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  • Khalistan Zindabad Force
    ...Force''' is a [[Sikh]] militant outfit comprised mainly of [[Jammu]] based Sikhs that advocates the creation of an independent Sikh majority state called [[ ...d the Khalistan Zindabad Force draws the majority of its support base from Sikhs from [[Jammu]].
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  • The Nation's Tortured Body
    ...khs around the world. Most crucially, he describes the torture of Sikhs by Indian police between 1983 and the present and discusses the images of tortured Si
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  • Punjab insurgency
    The insurgency in the Indian state of Punjab originated in the late 1970s. There roots of the insurgency ...dus decided to put Hindi as their native language instead of Punjabi. Many Sikhs viewed Punjabi Hindus as traitors for abandoning the cause of Punjab and Pu
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  • Guru Granth Sahib in french
    ...ipture is written in [[Gurmukhi]] script spanning several languages of the Indian subcontinent including [[Punjabi]], [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]], [[Sanskrit]], etc. ...i Granth Sahib Ji''', is more than just a scripture for the [[Sikh]]s. The Sikhs treat this [[Granth]] (''holy book'') as a living [[Guru]]. The holy text s
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  • Afghan Sikhs return in mass to India
    '''Afghan refugees in search of Indian identity''' ...f her life in New Delhi. She looks, sounds and behaves like an Indian. "My Indian friends are shocked when I tell them I am an Afghan. They say it's not poss
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  • India
    ...tate of India is where the majority of Sikhs live; an estimated 21 million Sikhs are to be found in this state. ...]] and [[Bangladesh]] and all of Jammu & Kashmir. The Mughals called their Indian Kingdom, Hindustan (Land of the Hindus), but before Muslim rule, India wa
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  • SETHI
    Although this gotra of Khatri clan has similar spell with Sethi clan of Jatt sikhs. Both are entirely different gotras although they have similar spell, '''j Indian Sethis are mostly Hindu and Sikhs whereas in Pakistan they are mostly Muslims.
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  • Lalit Maken
    ...[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]. He was one of the leaders of [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs]] and 3 Sikh militants later murdered him to take revenge of this massacre. ...ad Lalit Maken in the top 5 politician who had lead the mobs to kill the [[Sikhs]] in [[Delhi]]
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  • Henry Fane
    '''Sir Henry Fane''' (1778-1840), commander-in-chief of the British Indian army, visited the Punjab in 1837 to attend the marriage of Kanvar Nau Niha Sir Henry Fane made a detailed appraisal of the Sikhs' military power which, according to him, consisted of 6,070 regiments of in
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  • Saptahik Path
    ...own language, is to be flawlessly learned by all those who call them self Sikhs. The Saptahik path thus is a formal and social routine in Sikh Society exac ...ent times of the writings, flawlessly structured in the background of pure Indian classical Raags, makes the stream of words flowing out of the reader sound
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  • Sikh Military
    .... Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian Army, Sikhs have always been disproportionately represented martially. ...y since the late 19th century. While it may not have been accurate to mark Sikhs as particularly more warlike than any other ethnic group, it's undeniable t
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  • John Brown
    ...his services to his countrymen. He was told to continue serving with the Sikhs and be a secret agent of the British. He returned to Lahore and kept the
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  • Dakkhani Sikhs
    ...ar andWararigal. According to Captain A.H. Bingley, Sikhs A Handbook for Indian Army, 1918, their total number, evidently based on the 1911 census, was 4,6 ...such as the Sikhs of the Punjab now wear under the turban. As true Govindi Sikhs they are careful observers of the five kakkas and conform strictly to the o
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  • Rulers of Kashmir
    10. 27 Oct. 1947: Indian military invasion in Kashmir- two thirds of Kashmir occupied by India
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  • Gurudwara Shahid Ganj (Muktsar) Faridkot
    ...Wazir Khan Nawab of Sirhind, came in pursuit of the Guru, fought with the Sikhs and were routed. ...who had asked permission to leave Anandpur, even as their Guru and fellow Sikhs were still holding out against the armies of the hill-chiefs and their Mugh
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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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  • Why Sikhs need Khalistan?
    '''Why Sikhs should get Khalistan? ...Bahadur to Delhi. Guru Ji traveled to Delhi along with 4 companions (also Sikhs). After Guru Ji refused to convert to Islam or perform a miracle (It is aga
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  • July 27
    "The Sikhs in History," by Sangat Singh, 1995. ...in New York formed an ad-hoc International Sikh Organization to represent Sikhs interests. They called themselves the World Sikh Organization. The objectiv
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  • Operation Shanti
    ...t the Sikhs, 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 helic ...k employed in the household of Guru Gobind Singh, her vendetta against the Sikhs was due to what her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, had told her father Jawahar
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  • Bhai Vasti Ram
    ...tle in Lahore. Vasti Ram lived through the long period of persecution the Sikhs endured and their eventual rise to political power in the Punjab. He devote ...n Govt]].There is also a bazar named as Dhab Wasti Ram in Amritsar city in Indian State of Panjab.
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  • SIR JAMES ABBOTT
    ...tations from the Lahore residency and set up a jihad, crusade, against the Sikhs. His acts provoked the Hazara revolt which culminated in the second Anglo-S 2. Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs. Princeton, 1963,1966
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  • Sajjan Kumar
    ...ich accused them of inciting and leading mobs in the targeted killings of Sikhs during the 1984 Anti-Sikh Program. Kumar denies the charge, and legal proce == Sajjan Kumar’s Involvement In the [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs]]==
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  • Book on Sikhs in World War I
    [[File:Book on Sikhs in World War 1.jpg|thumb|First Complete book on Sikhs in World War I]] ...pride and honor the First ever rare and complete book on history of the 'Sikhs in World War I.’ written by S. Bhupinder Singh Holland.'''''
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  • Mohan Singh
    General 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 he ...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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  • Darshan Singh Pheruman
    ...Raj Kaur. After passing his high school examination, he joined in 1912 the Indian army as a sepoy. Two years later, he resigned from the army and set up as a ...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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  • Sant Singh Tegh
    [[Sant Singh Tegh]] was an Indian Freedom Fighter of [[Jammu]] and [[Kashmir]] state. ...a bold, courageous man of sacrifice. Hindus and Muslims loved him and the Sikhs of the State depended upon him.
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  • Sikhism in Greece
    A JAIB Singh removes his shoes and socks and joins dozens of other Indian Sikhs inside a small rented groundfloor apartment in the centre of this sleepy to ...bow on hands and knees before the Guru Granth Sahib - the holy book of the Sikhs. Those who do not wear turbans cover their heads as a sign of respect. One
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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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  • Different Turbans
    ...t of the world's monotheistic religions. There are an estimated 18 million Sikhs in the world, with some 2 million spread throughout North America, Western ==Indian Turban==
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  • Saka Chamkaur
    ...[[ Sahibzada Ajit Singh]] and [[Sahibzada Jujhar Singh]], and some fourty Sikhs including some of the [[Panj Pyare]], fought a battle against a vastly sup ...dure during their struggles against the oppressive Mughal Empire and their Indian allies.
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  • Pelia
    ...They are the rulers of Pal dynasty ( Pal Vansh ) Most of them are baptised sikhs at present times. Baba Makhan Shah Lobana was a great merchant from Pelia c
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  • Brave Acts of Singhs
    Stories that happened really and prove that Sikhs are brave. ...lue Star, many Sikh soldiers left their units in Indian Army and rebelled. Indian State sent army and paramillitary forces to eliminate these brave singhs. A
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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 [[category:Europeans in Sikhs Life]]
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  • New code for Sikh weddings
    ...med that the Sikh clergy would use persuasion, they clearly mean business. Sikhs have been urged not to attend weddings that don't stick to the code and to Sikhs are supposed to avoid unnecessary expenditure, but their weddings have beco
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  • Why Sikhs do not let them call a Hindu?
    Hindu term is not acknowledged in Holy Books of Sikhs. <br> ''Sikhs are not against Vedas/Puranas as directed by Bhagat Kabir''
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  • The First British Sikh Army
    ...as decided to conciliate the men of the defeated Khalsa Army and to enlist Sikhs in the Honourable East India Company's service. In April orders were issued ...vil Commissioner of the Punjab, to assist in fostering friendship with the Sikhs and in obtaining Sikh recruits. Ensign Brasyer was thirty-six years old. He
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  • June 17
    ...ets. Subsequently, the saewadars (including rich, poor, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikhs) carried out the kar sewa with humilty and devotion. KAR SEWA: "Kar" refers ...On this day congregations were held in Gurudwaras, Shaheeds were uligized, Sikhs men wore black turbans while Sikh women used black dupatas. All Sikh houses
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  • Nanavati Commission
    The Justice G.T. Nanavati commission was established by the Indian Government in 2000 to investigate the 1984 [[1984 Anti Sikh Riots|Anti-Sikh ...f instigating mobs to avenge the assassination of Indira Gandhi by killing Sikhs in their constituencies.
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  • Clinton's thoughts on the Chittisinghpura Massacre
    ...me Hindu militants decided to vent their outrage by murdering thirty-eight Sikhs in cold blood. If I hadn’t made the trip, the victims would probably stil ...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
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  • All Parties Conference 1928
    ...which did not give full satisfaction to the Sikhs would be accepted by the Indian National Cong. 1. Majumdar, R. C.,ed The History and Culture of Indian People, vol. V. Bombay, 1957
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  • Hemkunt sahib during the Uttrakhand floods disaster 2013
    ...FOOD through out, providing shelter to another for the ENTIRE time. While Indian Army specially the brave Garhwal Scouts had their hands full trying to evac ...ade this huge calamity out. There was also a small permanent detachment of Indian Army Sikh regiment soldiers who helped to establish control and provided mu
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  • 1984- Some true facts
    * 1947 Pak/Indian Independence. Sikhs offered own country during partition.
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  • Operation Woodrose the follow up
    ...which its builder, the first Sikh Guru to ever call for any arming of the Sikhs had asked for [[Miri and Piri]] - two swords. ...that surrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army.
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  • Jangnama Guru Gobind Singh
    ...le of a Barah Maha, the twelve stanzas are each assigned to a month of the Indian calendar. ...in which an attack from the imperial troops was countered and repulsed by Sikhs under the personal command of Guru Gobind Singh. Additionally the use of th
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  • Sikhism in the USA
    [[Sikhs]] have been a part of the [[United States|American]] landscape for more tha ...ers The Pioneers, America, "A historical perspective of Americans of Asian Indian origin 1790-1997"] [[31 October]] [[2006]]</ref>
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  • When Big Tree Falls
    ...ikhs in National capital Delhi allegedly by supporters of his ruling party Indian National Congress by saying 'When a big tree falls, earth shakes a bit.
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  • The Punjab Papers
    .../7); and about Ellenborough's military policy and bellicosity towards the Sikhs (PRO 30/12 (72). ...as that of "an armed truce:" and to repeat, "Let our policy [towards tlic Sikhs] be what it may, the contest must come at last, and the intervening time th
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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 Abbas said that Sikhs would visit their religious places during their 10-day stay in Pakistan.}}
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  • Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi
    Former race relations commissioner Rajen Prasad, 62, who was born in Suva of Indian parents, and 44 year old Raymond Huo a lawyer and former journalist, former ...rom Auckland, the country’s largest immigrant metropolis with about 40,000 Sikhs and ethnic Indians.
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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 ...the events at Peshawar, particularly the British offer of Jalalabad to the Sikhs and its evacuation afterwards, and Clerk's despatches and reports from Laho
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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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  • Akali Sahayak Bureau
    ...lish newspaper. The Hindustan Times, he was fairly well aquainted with the Sikhs. After the Sikh Gurdwaras Act was placed on the statute book in 1925, the A 4. Amrik Singh, ed. , Punjab in Indian Politics. Delhi, 1985
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  • Abul Fazl
    2. Mujeeb, M., The Indian Muslims. London, 1967 [[Category:Related to Sikhs]]
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  • Jagraon
    ...pecially life sized statues depicting some of the atrocities committed on Sikhs the Mugals) is located nearby. ...n is also the home of Late [[Lala Lajpat Rai]], a well-known figure in the Indian Independence movement, whose death was a catalyst in the life of Shaheed Bh
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  • Punjabi language
    Punjabi is the official language of the Indian state of Punjab, and is also spoken in neighbouring areas such as [[Haryana ...1 220 people using it on a daily basis. Punjabi is a major language of the Sikhs, in which much religious literature is written (See [[Adi Granth]]). It is
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  • Jay Leno Golden Temple Remark
    ...the 'Golden Temple' on January 19, 2012. This has angered [[Sikh]]s and [[Indian]]s as their most revered shrine located in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab]] has bee ...ised strong protest from a diverse spectrum of the population of India and Sikhs around the world. They are angered that their most respect symbol of the hi
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  • Tarikh I Muzaffari
    ...setup an alang, a virtual wall of fortifications around the fortress. Yet Sikhs, says the author, remained undaunted. They came out in day time and they ma
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  • Gurdwara Sahib (Tehran)
    ...0576 facebook entry on Indian School Tehran Iran] - This is the alumni for INDIAN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, Tehran before the government took over it and made Krishna described Sikhs living in Iran as "wonderful Ambassadors of India".
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  • History of Sikhs in China
    THE HISTORY OF SIKHS IN CHINA ...ands of Sikhs in Shanghai. <ref> https://www.sikhnet.com/news/contribution-sikhs-china</ref> The first gurdwara went up in the same year.
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  • Baba Khem Singh Bedi
    ...pindi. Aside from completing the daily recitals and meditation done by all Sikhs, Baba Khem Singh Bedi daily completed an additional 25 [[Jap Ji Sahib]]’s ...9 and was nominated to the Viceroy's Legislative Council in 1893. When the Indian council Act was extended to the Punjab in 1897, he was among the first non-
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  • Bibliography
    This Select Bibliography of the Sikhs and Sikhism has grown out military history of the Sikhs grew and I was able to collect a fairly large
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  • Heroism at the battle of Galli Poli
    ...steadfastness, the British employed all their battalions, except the 35th Sikhs, for fighting in such faraway places like Egypt, Palestine, Masopotamia, Ga ...goes to the first battalion of the Sikh Regiment called the 14th Ferozepur Sikhs, which was moved after a short stay in the Suez Canal area to Galli Poli.
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  • A.S.Vaidya
    ...VSM (1926 - 10 August 1986) was the 13th Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) of the Indian Army. On July 31, 1983 General Vaidya became the 13th Chief Of Army Staff of the Indian Army . In 1984, he planned Operation Blue Star.
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  • CENTRAL SIKH LEAGUE
    ...ouncement, the Central Sikh League called a representative conclave of the Sikhs on 24 July 1932 at the samadh of Maharaja RANJIT Singh in Lahore at which a
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  • The importance of Kaur
    ...on, we need to look at the situation at the time in different cultures. In Indian society, the brides first and last name was often changed after her marriag ...s something very unique in the history of the world. Of late more and more Sikhs are dropping Singh and Kaur from their names. They probably are not aware o
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  • Kalgi
    ...Turban]] with a '''Kalgi''' has become a fashion item, most often seen in Indian weddings of both Hindu and Muslim weddings, where a 'Ready made Topi (hat) ...a requirement, one of the [[Five Ks]]; items to be worn or carried by all Sikhs who have been initiated into the [[Khalsa]].
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  • Vic Briggs / Vikram Singh Khalsa
    ...don and The Animals during the 1966-1968 period. Currently plays classical Indian and Hawaiian music. ...and Ali Akbar Khan that he purchased in the late 1960s, ''hooked him'' on Indian music. It was the deep vibrant ringing sound of Khansahib's [[Sarode|sarod
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  • Thakur Singh Sandhanvalia
    ...nity. Thakur Singh called in Amritsar a meeting of some of the leading Sikhs of the day, including Baba Sir Khem Singh Bedl, a descendant of [[Guru ...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
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  • Henry Montgomery Lawrence
    ...administration was run by a council of eight leading sardars, six of them Sikhs, one Hindu and one Muhammadan, each with specific portfolios. In pursuing a moderate policy towards the Sikhs and the Punjab, Lawrence had to wage a private war with the GovernorGeneral
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  • July 29
    ...highly placed in public adminsitration to the educational progress of the Sikhs. The Singh Sabha was to shun politics. ...m and gave it a decisive direction. It not only checked the relapse of the Sikhs into Hinduism but also retaliated by carrying prosewlytsing activities into
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  • Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
    ....aspx?id=90876764-7915-4961-a538-14a4fc12135f&&Headline=KPS+Gill+sacked+as+Indian+hockey+chief</ref> ...nton killer. According to Khushwant Singh , they were wrong and Gill saved Sikhs and Punjab for India. He came out as a hero in Khalistan episode. However,
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  • Baldev Singh
    Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, who represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the pr ...idate of the Panthic (Akali) Party, a combination of Akali and Nationalist Sikhs. He along with [[Master Tara Singh]], [[Sir Jogendra Singh]] and [[Sardar U
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  • Kaur Singh Chakkar
    ...tion in Punjab was totally changed to that of hatred. Hundreds of innocent Sikhs and Hindus were killed, many innocent muslims were also killed due to the r ...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
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  • July 5
    ...attacked the Dera in 1844 with 20000 troops and 50 cannon. Several hundred Sikhs, including General Attar Singh Sandhanwalla, Prince Kashmira Singh and Bhai ...nda. The Sikh chiefs revolted, including Bhagwan Singh. He was welcomed by Sikhs saying "Ah Wo Maharaj", because of his sanctity, thus, soon he came to be r
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  • Malerkotla
    ...of India and now a city and a municipal council in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab, was named after the earlier villages of Maler and Kotla ...fatal 'run for the border' of Pakistan, however it is said that two brave Sikhs defended the citizens of Malerkotla warning their Sikh brothers to not even
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  • Deg o Tegh o Fateh
    '''Deg o Tegh o Fateh''' is the original [[Sikh]] National Anthem. Most Sikhs wrongly think that Deh Shiva Bar Mohe was the National Anthem of the Sikh S
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  • The Sant syndrome
    ...f disciples (McLeod, 1992:102). A Sant is regarded as a holy person by the Sikhs and is believed to have been endowed with divine power by God. Most Sants c ...rs. Some of them held high office in the Akali Dal (political party of the Sikhs). For example, in the 1960's [[Sant Fateh Singh]] took over the leadership
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  • Parkash Singh Badal
    ....</ref> The current political party in power in Punjab, and a enemy of the Sikhs. ...l. He has not done anything about the Sikh freedom fighters in prison, The Sikhs of Punjab are now against him.
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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, ...hat loot and plunder they had been able to get their hands on. Before the Sikhs arrived the road had been open all the way to Srinagar, had the age old rig
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  • Beant Singh
    ...]], killings of hundereds of civilians in this army attack and killings of Sikhs in the countryside afterwards. ...y attack. Several other Sikh Gurudwaras were also attacked similtaneously. Indian army even burnt the historical Sikh reference Library afterwards. These eve
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  • Councillor Makhan Singh
    ...llast used to cross the seas, before sailing up the Thames to unload their Indian goods. Many of the paving stones of the old streets in London were cobbled Today Sikhs have become one of the borough's largest minority groups. In 1990, the ‘�
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  • Balvant Singh Canadian
    ...ith Sikh settlers there. He and Sant Teja Singh, one of the leaders of the Sikhs in the Western Hemisphere, advised the immigrants to refuse to move to Hond ...n rules required that to be eligible for fresh entry into that country, an Indian must travel on a direct passage from India to a Canadian port, but the ship
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  • Kshatriya
    ...e Sikhs are meant to carry weapons and not shy away from a just fight. For Sikhs this is not a Caste or a Varna but a Militarization of People of Different ...as, indicating the power and prestige that this group once held in ancient Indian society. Indeed, the famous religious leaders Gautama Buddha and Mahavira (
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  • Baba Gurmukh Singh Laliton
    ...ip 'Komagata Maru' chartered by Baba Gurdit Singh. Since, the Punjabi Sikhs were not allowed to land in Canada, the 'Komagata Maru' returned to Calcutt 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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  • 1991 Punjab killings
    ...from one on wikipedia, leaving out the name of the militants, and adding Sikhs to those wounded on the second train. In reference number 2, again from the ...he second train militants fired indiscriminately killing and wounding many Sikhs as well as Hindus.
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  • Historic Nihangs
    ...ent out a detachment against the Sikhs at Sri Amritsar Sahib Ji forbidding Sikhs from visiting this hallowed site. ...battle with the Sikhs. Severe fighting broke out between the two sides and Sikhs suffered huge losses.
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  • Sikhism in Thailand
    '''Thai Sikhs''' are [[Sikh]]s of the Guru who have upheld the Nishaan Sahib, the Sikh fl ...relatives whose surname were Madan, Narula and chawla. They were the first Indian diaspora in Thailand.
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  • United Sikhs Director saves Girl
    ...Home] / [http://www.unitedsikhs.org/US_News/US_News_2508200600.php United Sikhs News] '''UNITED SIKHS Director Bhai Esher Singh saves Sikh Girl From Kidnappers.'''
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  • Simranjit Singh Mann
    ...rea we envisage will be very secular and will elect its leaders from among Sikhs, Muslims, (Hindus) or even Christians. Our objective is to fight repression ...the [[Harmandir Sahib]] ([[Golden Temple]]); the most sacred shrine of the Sikhs. He was charged, among other things, with conspiracy to assassinate India's
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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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  • Master Tara Singh
    Once the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Army impressed by the game, offered him a direct commission which he refuse ...ception, but after the Nankana Sahib tragedy in 1921 wherein more than 200 sikhs were killed, he left his teaching profession and became a whole time public
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  • CENTRAL AKALI DAL
    ...on communal basis; and to take immediate steps for the liquidation of the Indian debt through the transfer of British vested interests in finance and indust
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  • Master Mota Singh
    ...injuring 17 of the reformists of whom two later died, and the massacre of Sikhs at Nankana Sahib on 20 February 1921 finally drove him to radicalism. ...the radical group of Babbar akalis, and made a trip to Kabul where he met Indian revolutionaries who had close contacts with Bolsheviks of Russia. Arrested
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  • Gurmukh Singh Saini
    ...Honor]], or French [[Legion of Honor]] (and would be the equivalent of the Indian [[Param Vir Chakra]]). The order was awarded to officers and generals for s == Award of the Indian Order of Merit: Lieutenant-Governor's Citation ==
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  • US Pres. Nixon and Dr, Kissinger attempted to derail Azad Bangladesh
    For stories of Sikhs in the war see: ...Nixon, the only American President to resign in disgrace, once referred to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as, "…the old witch", according to recently
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  • Bihar
    [[Image:IndiaBihar.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Indian State of Bihar]] ...early years before moving to [[Anandpur]]. [[Patna]] is further honored by Sikhs as both [[Guru Nanak]] and [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]] visited the city.
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  • BollyWood Betrayal
    ...y Hindi, films where film makers have taken thematic short-cuts by showing Indian Christians as gangsters or moronic priests, have cast aspersions on their p ...out the main focus of my issue with Bollywood and their representation of Sikhs roles. The ones I toyed with were:
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  • Kaur
    ...h Guru]] when he administered [[Amrit]] (baptism) to both males and female Sikhs. All female [[Sikh]]s were asked to use the name '''Kaur''' after their for Some Sikhs today have chosen to retain their traditional caste-system based family nam
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  • Udai Singh
    ...ain greatly favoured the Turks who were well dug-in. The 14th Sikhs of the Indian brigade formed part of Hamilton’s expeditionery force. ...ch was present there that day was able to lure Udai Singh to join the 14th Sikhs. He was with the unit when Hamilton’s force landed at the Gallipoli penin
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  • Sikhs in Argentina
    {{pl|Image:Argentina Sikhs.png|Bibiana Jasbe Singh Kaur}} The Sikhs originally came to Argentina in the early 19th century to work on a British
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  • Keshdhari Hindus
    ...and staunch Indian nationalists. RSS's agenda is focused on asserting that Sikhs are not separate from Hindus but are actually their reformed version. They ...ement aided by economic prosperity. However, a 2002 claim by the RSS that "Sikhs are Hindus" disturbed Sikh sensibilities.
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  • BJP- In Indira Gandhi's footsteps
    ...hoary old saw, let me add another one: after years of opposing each other, Indian political parties begin to sound like each other. ...aroused, depending on your perspective) Hindu insecurities and fears about Sikhs and the threat of terrorism.
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  • Lions of the Great Wars
    ...the war 100,000 Sikh volunteers joined the British Armed forces with a few Sikhs also contributing to the French Air Service and the American Expeditionary ...le as a [[Sant Sipahi]] (Warrior Saint, Saint-soldiers, by encouraging the Sikhs areas to set up temporary Gurdwaras (Sikh Temples), to observe the birthday
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  • Maya Singh Saini
    ...i participated as a Ghorcharra in the Anglo-Sikh wars. After the defeat of Sikhs he became an insurgent against the English occupation. He was finally arres ...e to the British forces, which proved to be a great morale booster for the Sikhs.
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  • Kanpur Massacre
    ...e protesters. The Nirankari chief had again made full preparations for the Sikhs. ...ce officers started to shoot at the Sikh protesters. As a result, thirteen Sikhs were martyred while a further seventy-four were injured.
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  • Symbol of faith
    {{p|File:Sikhs main3.jpg|Sikhs with turbans (others in helmets) engaged in an armed combat during World Wa ...n their lives, and 1,09,045 were wounded while fighting as part of British Indian Army.
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  • The Akali
    ...Sihgh at Amritsar. The Pradesi Khalsa was launched with funds provided by Sikhs settled in foreign countries, hence the name Pradesi (foreign). The AkaH me 4. Barrier, N. Gerald, The Sikhs and Their Literature. Delhi, 1970
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  • Raja Bikram Singh
    ...n Temple and for a new building for the Guru ka Langar. He was among those Indian princes who were sympathetic to the cause of the deposed Maharaja Duleep Si
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  • 550th Celebrations of the birth of Guru Nanak
    {{P|File:2018-Gurpurb celebrations begin.JPG|Former Indian PM Dr Manmohan Singh, Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore and CM Amarinder Sin ...from Punjab’s Gurdaspur district to the International Border to facilitate Indian pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur in Pakistan. He said a
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  • Rise of British Sikhism
    Just over a 100 years ago a handful of Sikhs arrived in England and soon founded the first gurdwara or Sikh temple in Eu ...oss Victorian Britain, selling fine silks and jewellery from door to door. Sikhs in those days must have felt far from home. And so, for moral support and t
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  • Raja
    ...from the Kshatriya / Rajput lineages. The title has a long history in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda. It is now ...ld be used to translate Prince in Persia and the Punjab by [[Muslim]]s or Sikhs while Rajkumar or just Kumar would be used in Hindi, but the Mughals having
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  • Manjeet Tiwana
    ...973 respectively, and Ph.D. in Psychology in 1984. She also did Diploma in Indian Theatre (Acting and Direction) in 1975. She is currently Head of the Depart 1. Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, Vol. II., 1966.
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  • Sikhs for Justice
    '''Sikhs for Justice''' is a Human Rights Advocacy Group based at New York.<ref>See: ...as perpetuated by [[Congress]] party of India along with various organs of Indian State.
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  • Guru Nanak in Baghdad's Folklore
    From the book, THE SIKHS IN HISTORY, By Sangat singh ..., in several conversations with the author, who was First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Baghdad during 1989-90. The 76 years old Shaikh Hanafi who somet
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  • Unity Conference
    ...oups, and political organizations, aimed at drafting agreements concerning Indian constitutional advance and polititcal representation in provincial and cent ...d by religious community, there were 63 Hindus, 39 Muslims, 11 Sikhs and 8 Indian Christians in attendance. A unity committee was appointed on the first day
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  • Institute of Sikh Studies
    ...rs. Apart from commenting about various ongoing issues concerning sikhs in Indian media, many high quality books authored by famous Sikh theologians have bee ...ch in Sikh Studies. It is a total volunteer institute in which many famous Sikhs participatet. This institute is probably one of the few which has enough co
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  • Siharfian Hari Singh Nalwa
    ...of Akali Phula Singh in the battle that ensued between the Afghans and the Sikhs; defeat 2. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, 6 Vols., Delhi, 1995.
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  • Operation Shudeekaran
    ...ocities 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 ...Sikhs and the Hindus themselves by the Many Islamic invaders of India. The Indian Police also participated with many seeing the policies of the RSS and oth
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  • Operation Woodrose
    ...e censorship of the congress party. In the Punjab the operation caused the Indian Army to became very unpopular. <ref>{{cite book |title=Politics of genocide ...aimed at wiping out Sikhism by riding Punjab of its Amritdhari's (baptized Sikhs), especially young men.
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  • Sikhism in Norway
    ...gs of Sikhs after the assasination of Indira Gandhi led to an increase of Sikhs moving to Norway. ...ted to key positions in the local government. (see News items below). Many Sikhs are employed in the professional fields of medicine, engineering and techn
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  • General JJ Singh
    ...age:JJ SIngh 1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|{{C|'''[[General JJ Singh]], Chief of Indian Army'''}}]] ...neral N C Vij retired on 31 January 2005. He is the first Sikh to lead the Indian Army and the 11th Chief of Army Staff from the Western Command based at Cha
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  • Sukhdev Singh Jalwehra
    ...ra handing over a historic memorandum with Sikh demands (Khalistan) to the Indian embassy of Brussels.]] ...refugee, anywhere in the world, ''vis a vis'' the crackdown in Punjab on Sikhs militants fighting for [[Khalistan]].
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  • Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Port Louis
    Although there were no Sikhs among the initial influx of Indian laborers that came to Mauritius in the 19th century, sporadic immigration f
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  • Turban Case - Hope Raised
    * [[The Sikhs of France]] * [[National Protest by UK Sikhs]]
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  • Manpreet Singh
    ...inema and television screens for a very long time. Also, the image of the Sikhs in Bollywood has mainly been shown in derogatory light and their reputation ...of [[Shabad]]s and songs with a socio-religious message, not only for the Sikhs but for all of humankind. Shot at various locations in [[Punjab]], the mov
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  • Harmeet singh rajput
    ...khs) mother of the great martyr-Sahib Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji (fifth Guru of Sikhs). The Ithaas (history) is evident that Bibi Bhani Ji is known as Guru Putri ...Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan. The place is well known pilgrimage of Sikhs across the globe. He was chief administrator of Guru Nanak Dev Superspecial
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  • Sumedh Singh Saini
    ...al criminal charges of kidnappings, torture and murders of several people. Indian Election commission has recieved complaints that he threatened congress can ...o Sikhs Balwant Singh Multani and Balwant Singh Bhullar. Both of these two Sikhs were kept in illegal custody and 'were tortured on the orders of and in the
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  • Khalistan Commando Force
    ...e [[Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan]], clashed repeatedly with the [[Indian Army]] forces during the 1980s and early 1990s as well as the Punjab police ...ther items prohibited by conservative Sikhism.<ref>Brown, Derek. Fanatical Sikhs turn on traders, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 8 April 1987.</ref>
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  • 15
    ...]]),the the founder of [[Sikhism]] and the first of the [[ten Gurus of the Sikhs]]. ...Thind]], PhD, ([[3 October]] [[1892]] - [[15 September]] [[1967]]) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved i
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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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  • Bollywood’s Hidden Agenda ?
    ...g into a bizarre medley of colorful clothes never seen worn by the average Indian. Sikhs portrayal in Bollywood is also a fantasy. There are no memorable Sikh roles
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  • SIND
    ...s very amply illustrative of the naked policy of turning out of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan, for no other reason whatever except that they were not Musli �Soon after August 15, 1947, was organised the ousting of Hindus and Sikhs from their residences and business premises, from their agricultural lands
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  • Mystery Deepens
    ...sgruntled Sikhs, and are doing so even now with less success - against the Indian state and the Hindu community, it must have been sheer stupidity on their p ...ashington, on the 10th of March to appraise them of the possibility of the Indian authorities indulging in something "to malign the Kashmiri freedom fighters
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  • Women's rights and Hindu Talibanisation?
    Indian girls can do a lot of things. They can, and do, fly aeroplanes. They can, a ...avoided the scourge of the elixer of the Aztecs and other South American 'Indian' tribes, with which Columbus and Jean Nicot de Villemain doomed so many
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  • 1984
    The Indian army invaded the [[Harmandir sahib complex]] on the orders of the then Pri A group of Sikhs, led by [[Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale|Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]] (the
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  • Sher Singh Shera
    ...Sahib got admitted to Ramgharia College, Bhai Sahib saw the hatred against Sikhs by the government and was shaken by that. During that time, Bhai Sahib met ...d revenge upon those who were guilty of torturing, killing, or humiliating Sikhs. He said, 'Getting away from there is your job, protecting you here [in the
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  • Sikhism in Trinidad
    ...ad| url= https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-diaspora-determined-to-keep-indian-culture-traditions-alive-in-trinidad-1317270}} </ref> Gurdwara <ref> Gurud Oral history narrated at https://youtu.be/iOaR1gZ2A8Y you tube link Sikhs in Trinidad Sikh Channel episode 1
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  • Jagjit Singh Chauhan
    ...rsary celebration of the Martyrdom of Guru Arjan) and many soldiers of the Indian Army. ...e news that Mrs. Gandhi and her family has been beheaded. That is what the Sikhs will do…" After this interview the Thatcher government curtailed Chauha
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  • Kitchen that feeds 100,000 daily
    '''Free kitchen in India run at the Sikhs' holiest shrine produces 200,000 flat breads and 1.5 tons of lentil soup da ...ay are what makes the free kitchen run at the Golden Temple in the western Indian [[city of Amritsar]] stand apart.
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  • Pauri
    ...u Granth Sahib]], which the [[Sikh]]s regard as more than a holy book. The Sikhs treat their sacred scriptures as their living Guru. The holy text is also r ...orld stairs or ladders are seen as a metaphor for ascending to Heaven. The Sikhs Gurus, including the SGGS, are seen as the guide or way for a Sikh to attai
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  • Bangladesh
    ...the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south. Together with the Indian state of West Bengal, it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. Th ...n. However, it was separated from the western wing by 1,600 km (994 mi) of Indian territory. Political and linguistic discrimination as well as economic negl
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  • Visakhi and Diwali
    ...moon at this time passes through visakha naksatra or constellation) of the Indian calendar. Traditionally, the festival was celebrated as the harbinger of ha ...al on the occasion of Baisakhl. It became customary for distant sangats of Sikhs to assemble at the seat of the Gurus on every Baisakhl (and Diwali) day.
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  • New Zealand
    ...stablishment of the gurudwara and looks forward to an increasing number of Sikhs contributing as community members and investors in commerce. ...he was given a tour of the museum and briefed on Sikh history, the role of Sikhs in World Wars, and the state sponsored genocide in Punjab during the 1980s.
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  • Radcliffe Award
    ...r which the dividing line between the West (Pakistan) Punjab and the East (Indian) Punjab was drawn, is so called after the name of the Chairman of the Punja ...uch other way as may seem most reasonable and in the best interests of the Indian people."
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  • Battle of Aliwal
    ...British and the Sikhs. The British were led by Sir Harry Smith, while the Sikhs were led by Ranjodh Singh Majithia. The British won a victory which is some The Sikhs were temporarily disheartened by the retreats ordered by their commanders.
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  • Singh Twins
    ...ins have to be thanked for initiating a new movement in the revival of the Indian miniature tradition within modern art practice. The Singh Twins employ traditional techniques used in Indian miniature painting to produce vibrant, exquisitely-detailed paintings that
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  • When Romans met the Sikhs
    {{p3|File:Sikhs at war.jpg|Sikh soldiers in East Africa during World War II}} ...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
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  • Sialkot
    ...The Pathans, managed to take many villages, under their fiefdom, until the Sikhs took the area, in 1770s, and once again made is part of the Punjab, from Ka ...etween 1550-1575, and at the same time many Hindu Jatts, of Sialkot became Sikhs,
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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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  • Harbhajan Singh
    ...t against New Zealand at Sharjah in the same year and has been part of the Indian squad since. ...kets during the series. In the second Test in Kolkata, he became the first Indian to take a Test hat-trick,taking 7/123 in the first innings and then 6/73 to
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  • Sikhs an Identity
    '''Sikhs an Identity By Bhai Madan Singh U. K.''' ...ranch of Hinduism. Sikhs have not been granted independent identity in the Indian constitution.. Due to this the Sikh representatives had rejected and refuse
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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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  • Gurmit Ram Rahim
    ...hes between the members of his sect and Sikhs have escalated (at least two Sikhs have been killed during protests against the Dera) since the day Ram Rahim, ...ru Gobind Singh was dressed that day. His actions that day seemed, to many Sikhs, as if they were right out of the pages of Sikh history.
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  • Sardul Singh Caveeshar
    ...t 1925. In 1927, he was elected a member of the Working Conllnittee of the Indian National Congress. During the Civil Disobedience movement, 1931-33, Sardul ...ru Nanak solved it, India's fight for freeddom (1936), Sikh studies(1937), Sikhs and the Swaraj, non-violent non-cooperation, The Lahore Fort Torture Camp (
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  • Sukhdev Singh Sukha
    ...kh militants used to weaken the government and to use Indian Money against Indian Security forces. ...ties]] (PUCL) listed 227 people who led the mobs, which killed up to 3,000 Sikhs over three days. Lalit Maken's name was third on the list <ref>http://www.h
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  • Inquiry Into The Chithi Singhpora Massacre
    All efforts should be made to normalise the situation and bring the Sikhs back into the mainstream in the State. ...s existing between the majority Kashmiri Muslims and the minority Kashmiri Sikhs in J&K.
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  • Sikhs in Mexico
    There is only one gurdwara in Mexico City. And Arjan Singh, an Indian and a granthi from India, who came to Mexico City in 1976, looks after it. ...to Sikhism. Jai Hari and Arjan are married to Mexican women, who are also Sikhs. The women wear white turbans. Arjan Singh’s 20-year-old son also practic
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  • Anti Dasam Bani Movement
    ...the scripture and all banis out from [[Sikh]] Institution. As per records, Indian government(Congress and BJP) also planned to contaminate meanings of [[Dasa ...regard Guru Gobind Singh's Bani and added it to daily liturgy. Traditional sikhs marks this event as beggining of anti dasam bani movement.
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  • Bibi Agya Kaur
    ...e of Bhai Takht Singh and his partner in promoting women's education among Sikhs, a cause to which they were both passionately devoted. She was the daughter In 1917-18 there were many Indian and English soldiers who returned to the Panjab, survivers of the deadliest
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  • Adharm
    '''Adharm''' is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Adeep Singh released in 2006. It is based on the ...events of the [[Chittisinghpura massacre]] on March 20, 2000, in which 37 Sikhs were massacred by Islamic Fundamentalists in Kashmir. The film revolves aro
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  • Surjit Singh Penta
    ...movement, after he had been personally affected by the [[1984 Massacre of Sikhs|Delhi Anti-Sikh riots in 1984]]. After that he became part of the [[Bhindra ...even said to have been given government info pointing out the addresses of Sikhs, their homes and businesses.
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  • US Sikh woman racial harassed wins settlement
    ...nt sends a strong message to private employers that discrimination against Sikhs is illegal and will be harshly punished. ...tore manager harassed Mrs. Kaur because she was a [[Sikh]], a woman and an Indian.
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  • ISI former head says Sikh community gives him "next-to-Guru" status?
    [[Image:Sikhs Defenders Akaal Takht.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Sikhs Defenders of Harmandir Sahib 1984]] ...ikh who is head of the Pakistan Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PGPC), says Sikhs give him a "next-to-Guru" status.'''
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  • SIKHISM AND BIHAR
    ...s and universities of Bihar. Whether or not all of the people in Bihar are Sikhs it does not matter, the fact is that they take special pride in this religi
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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 ...sition 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 Que
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  • Sikh Scripture
    ...lled the [[Guru Granth Sahib]]. The second most important scripture of the Sikhs is the [[Dasam Granth]]. Both of these consists of text which was written o ...i Sri Granth Sahib''', is more than just a scripture of the [[Sikh]]s. The Sikhs treat this [[Granth]] (''holy book'') as a living [[Guru]]. The holy text s
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  • A World War I Saga: When Sikhs saved French honour
    Whenever the controversy centred around the Sikhs and their turbans resurfaces in France, my memory invariably reaches out to .... 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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  • The fall of Gilgit
    The entire north-west of the Indian sub-continent was, in the autumn of 1947, aflame with communal riots. In Oc ...by Lt. Col. Abdul Majid Khan, the battalion was composed of Muslims and [[Sikhs]] in almost equal proportions. The Muslim companies had men from [[Poonch]]
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  • Joseph Davey Cuningham
    ...ical agent to the state of Bhopal. In 1849, appeared his A History of the Sikhs which he had written while at Bhopal and which his brother had got publishe ...am's History shifted from his predecessors' concern with the assessment of Sikhs' political and military strength or the description of the manner of their
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  • Sikhism by country
    | 100,000<ref>[http://www.overseasindian.in/2007/jan/news/25n3.shtml Overseas Indian: Connecting India with its Diaspora<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ...ref> <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3015089.stm Sikhs celebrate harvest festival]</ref>
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  • Operation Black Thunder
    ...d the very same thing on May 12, 1988, although not on the same scale. The indian government was distraught that "militants" had restored the Akal Takht and ...ing the audacity to attack the Golden Temple. The operation ended when the Sikhs surrendered in fear of a repeat of Operation Bluestar.
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  • Sir Jogendra Singh
    ...elements in the political life of India. At the time of the expansion the Sikhs were not given any representation which was resented by them and they held ...he Indian Sugar Committee, the Indian Taxation Enquiry Commission, and the Indian Sandhurst Committee. He was also a Fellow of Panjab University.
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  • Satgur
    ...''', is a '''spiritual guide''' or preceptor. The term, long used in the Indian religious tradition, has a special connotation in the [[Sikh]] system. ...cept of [[Guru]], the teacher or enlightener who guides his/its devotees (Sikhs), is thus central to [[Sikhism]]. The [[Guru]], according to [[Sikh]] beli
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  • 1989 Jammu Anti Sikh Riots
    '''Sikhs killed and injured in Jammu''', January 13th 1989 ...eadly weapons by a Hindu mob connected with the organisation Shiv Sena. 13 Sikhs were killed and about 100 wounded, some of them seriously.
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  • DeccanHerald010904
    LIKE Muslims and Christians, Sikhs are ahle kitab, possessing the book. Theirs is Guru Granth Sahib which cele ...transcends creed and caste, cant and convention. It does not belong to the Sikhs alone. It consecrates the sayings of 11 Hindu bhakats and as many bard poet
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  • July 10
    * in 1685, constructed Bibaek Sar for Bibaekae Sikhs. ...e to power in sunmat 1685, the government policy went strongly against the Sikhs. As a result, Guru Sahib fought the following four wars with the mughal for
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  • Nanded
    '''Nanded''' (called Abichal nagar by the Sikhs) {{coord|19.1528|n|77.3189|e}} is also known '''Nanded-Waghala'''. It is si ...ve most important Takhats (thrones) of the Sikhs. Yearly many thousands of Sikhs visit the city to pay their respects to the sacred [[Gurdwara]] by the rive
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  • Mair Rajputs
    ...ok gives a detailed account of the atrocities committed against Hindus and Sikhs including Mair Rajputs in Punjab during partition of India in 1947: Talib, Gurbachan (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947. India: Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committ
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  • Central Sikh Temple
    ...ing Area in 1986. The gurdrawa is the main place of worship for the 15,000 Sikhs in the country, and is also known as Wada Gurdrawa. ...ed to recruit Sikh migrants as security forces in the Straits Settlements. Sikhs began to arrive in Singapore in 1881, to form a Sikh Contingent of the Stra
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  • Punjabi
    Punjabi is the official language of the Indian state of [[Punjab]] and [[Chandigarh]]. It is one of the second official la ...fth most commonly used language). Punjabi is the preferred language of the Sikhs, as some of their religious literature is written in it. It is the usual la
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  • Anjuman-i-Punjab, winning the right to study the Panjabi language in Gurmukhi
    ...ivate primary schools, lecture series and publication of literary works in Indian languages. The Anjuman held meetings for the discussion of questions of lit ==The rights of Sikhs to study the Punjabi language written in the Gurmukhi script==
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  • Sikh bravery
    ...ltural links, but little is known about the far more recent history of the Sikhs in the Battlefronts” Sikhs from the Northern state of [[India]], spring from martial races, whose figh
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  • Gurbachan Singh Talib
    ...rsity fellowship in 1985 to take up the National fellowship offered by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He suffered a massive heart atta ...ikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950); The Impact of Guru Gobind Singh on Indian Society (1966), Guru Nanak: His Personality and Vi
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  • The Sepoy Mutiny - 1857
    ...he Punjab. These two wars, the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars left the Sikhs fractionalize without any united leadership. The Dogra general who had lead ...urbia soldiers was in reaction to their boast that they had vanquished the Sikhs in 1845-46 and in 1848-49.
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  • Shaheed Major Baldev Singh Ghumman
    ...1971 but was left saddened and shocked with the attack on Golden Temple by Indian Army in summer of 1984. ...organizing peaceful protests against fake police encounters and torture of Sikhs. He is also credited for the unity between two major factions of Sikh Youth
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  • Polygamy in Sikhism
    ...orm is illegal, as Sikhs are also part of same act which turns illegal for Indian [[Sikh]]s too including Jains, Hindus and Buddhists opposite to Sharia Law
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  • Chamar
    ...ided into various groups such as Ad-Dharmi and Ravidassia and in Ravidasia Sikhs also there are sections of Chamars . They are highly concentrated in the Do * Prithvi Singh Azad, founding member of Ghadar Party, Indian independence activist and politician
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  • Sikhism in Belgium
    ...Dogra Sikhs died.[http://www.sikhs.org/ww1/second.html Sikhs.org] In WWII Sikhs even fought on oposing sides ...on region and some 1000 live in Brussels Capital Region. While most of the Sikhs are from Punjab there is a sizeable number from the Afghan Sikh community.
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  • Battle of Chillianwala
    ...troops to help quell the revolt. One of these forces consisted largely of Sikhs under General Sher Singh Attariwalla. On September 14, General Sher Singh's ...There was also a cavalry division of two cavalry brigades, of British and Indian cavalry regiments, and a brigade of Bengal Native troops in reserve. His ar
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  • Labh Singh Saini
    ...s Babu Labh Singh. He resigned his job as a protest against the killing of Sikhs at Nankana Sahib on 20 February 1921, and joined the campaign for the refor ...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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  • Sir David Ochterlony
    ...ley's earlier policy towards [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and the cisSutlej Sikhs, which aimed at establishing friendly relations with them and weaning them revenue and military resources of the cisSutlej Sikhs. It referred to the conquests and grants of Ranjit Singh during his three M
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  • Iqbal Singh, 67 Year Old Grandfather Survives Brutal Attack
    The day after the stabbing of a Santa Clara grandfather left South Bay Sikhs reeling, prosecutors are weighing hate crime and attempted murder charges a “We Sikhs are the most targeted for hate crimes,” he said. “People see us, and th
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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. ...me is visible from a distance. Rawalsar is particularly sacred to Namdhari Sikhs. Because of some allusion to it in Sau Sakhi as a sanctuary, many Namdharis
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