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• First Woman Vice-Chancellor in north India
  {{p|File:InderjitKaur-a.jpg|First Woman Vice-Chancellor in north India, Inderjit Kaur}} ...dern lady with formidable experience, who held two of the top positions in India.
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• Tibet
  ...h and east of the Tibet; India and Kashmir to the west; and Yunnan, Nepal, India and Bhutan to the south.
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• Haveli
  ...]] origin, meaning "an enclosed place". The havelis of Pakistan and north India traditionally followed the Islamic style of architecture but today the term
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• Haryana
  ...ons, 67 tehsils, 45 sub-tehsils and 116 blocks. Haryana is situated in the north between 27 deg 37' to 30 deg 35' latitude and between 74 deg 28' to 77 deg
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• Andhra Pradesh
  ...area and population. It is the largest and most populous state in Southern India. The state is crossed by two major rivers, the Godavari and the Krishna. Hi
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• The Tribune
  ...ent persons as trustees. The Tribune is the largest selling daily in North India. This is the largest selling daily in North India. Its stated policy is to publishes news and views without any bias or preju
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• ਚਉਬੋਲੇ
  ...(Hindustani: चौबोला or چوبولا) is a quatrain meter in the poetry of North India and Pakistan, often employed in folk songs.
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• Indian Classical Music
  ...sical music are North Indian classical music and Carnatic music from South India. ...re liberal than its south Indian counterpart. Carnatic music is similar to North Indian Classical music in that it is mostly improvised, but it is much more
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• Navtej Singh
  ...inner in 2005 is new Tara's Champion. His is from Kartarpur, [[Punjab]], [[India]]. Dope free Navtej has all eyes set to go high in the field of national an *Mr North India,
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• Nepal
  ...ndlocked nation in South Asia, bordering {{wiki|China}} to the north and [[India]] to the south, east and west. Nepal previously had the distinction of bein
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• Ravi
  ...n the [[Himalayas]] in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh following a north-westerly course. ...he Ravi river are allocated to India under the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan. It is also called 'The river of Lahore' since that great city
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• Jatt Sikh
  ...adually extended supremacy over north-western India. Indo-Scythian rule in India ended with the last Western Satrap Rudrasimha III in 395 CE.).
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• Firangis
  ...eing the source of the contempt) in the film ''Lagaan, Once upon a time in India'' when Rajesh Vivek as Guran, the fortune teller utters, rather growls, the ...y Franks or people from France. When Vasco da Gama landed on the shores of India he was greeted with - "May the Devil take thee!… by an Arab trader who wa
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• Nanded-Waghala
  ...''' is situated on the banks of the river Godavari in Maharashtra state of India. It the administrative headquarters Nanded District is Marathwada's second ...international business, as it is one of the major cotton growing areas in India.
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• Francis
  ...ing the source of the contempt) in the film '''Lagaan, Once upon a time in India''' when Rajesh Vivek as Guran, the fortune teller utters, rather growls the Strangely enough the word arrived in India with Arab traders who had since the crusades used the word for all European
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• Rajasthan
  ...east, Uttar Pradesh and [[Haryana]] to the northeast and [[Punjab]] to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 342,239 km² (132,139 mi²). The sta
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• Uttarakhand
  ...anḝ ?), formerly Uttaranchal, is a state located in the northern part of [[India]]. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods due to the many holy [[Hindu ...old literature, a term which derives from Sanskrit uttara (उतढ़तर) meaning north, and khaṇḝ (खणढ़डढ़) meaning country or part of a country. It h
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• Saluri
  ...Una District of Himanchal Pardesh (India). Saluri village is 16 kilometers north of Una along the Una - Amb road. The place was visited by Guru Gobind singh
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• Ladakh
  ...including the Rudok region and Guge in the east, and Nubra valleys to the north over Khardung La in the Ladakh mountain range. ...in Central Asia on the other side of the Kuen Lun range in Kashmir to the north. Ladakh is renowned for its remote mountain beauty and [[Buddhist]] culture
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• Canada
  Canada (IPA: /ˈkænədə/) is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean ...f the British Empire, having served in the army and often having come from India or one of Britain's African colonies.
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• Dilruba
  ...Indian terms, being only about 200 years old. The dilruba is found in the north, where it is used in religious music and light classical songs in the urban A. R. Rahman has been one of the composers in India who has used the Dilruba in his works like "Dil Se" and "Vande Mataram".
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• Firozpur
  ...pur.jpg|thumb|350px|right|{{cs|'''Firozpur District in [[Punjab state]], [[India]]}}]] ...tilizing inundations from the Sutlej, the only river, which runs along the north-western boundary.
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• Guru Nanak in Saudi Arabia
  ...previously called Ceylon). To the north he had gone even to places outside India. Crossing the Himalayas, he had visited Tibet and China. He had travelled o
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• Punjab
  ...n area of South Asia spanning from central [[Pakistan]] to north-western [[India]] ** [[Punjab (India)]], the part of the Punjab which became part of [[India]] used to consist of present-day Punjab state; also part of [[Haryana]] sta
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• Hyderabad
  ...d culturally. Hence, Hyderabad is considered to be the gateway of southern India. Hyderabad has always been a place where [[Hindus]] and [[Muslims]] have co
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• Sant Nidhan Singh
  ...a Tatt Khalsa at Karachi and Gurdwara Sahib at Kahuta, both now outside of India. Sant Nidhan Singh died at Nanded on 4 August 1947. ...s also a Sikh Gurudwara, which is the third Gurudwara to be constructed in India.
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• Karnataka
  '''Karnataka''' is an state in South West India. The state was created by the unification of Karnataka on 1 November 1956, ...f 191976 km2 (74,122 sq mi) , or 5.83% of the total geographical area of [[India]]. It is the eighth largest Indian state by area, the ninth largest by popu
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• Gurdwara Imli Sahib
  ...Dev]] Ji in the way of his itinerary diverted from southern states to the north-west and reached Indore. It is centrally located and innumerable devotees a [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pardesh]](India), Phone: 2343502,2340950,FAX:2340876
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• Number of Gurdwaras around the world
  ===India=== ==North America==
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• Nanak Sagar
  ...of Khatima Railway Station on the Pilibhit-Tanakpur metre-gauge section of North-Eastern Railway. The holy shrine is near the town of {{wiki|Sitarganj}}.
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• Sikh population
  ...e. 76% of all Indian Sikhs, live in the northern Indian State of [[Punjab (India)]], where they form a majority 59.9% of the population. Substantial communi ...mpire]]<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 / Septembe
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• Chung tong
  Chungthang is a town in North Sikkim district in the Indian state of Sikkim. It is situated at the conflu ...bet, and it is likely that he passed through Chung Tong on his way back to India. According to tradition, there was a severe famine in the area when the Gre
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• Leh
  ...ital of the Leh District in the state of [[Jammu and Kashmir]], northern [[India]]. Historically, it was the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of [[Ladakh]]. ...to have thrown away a neem twig from the Neem or Datun tree, long used in India to clean ones teeth, which took root and was the first tree to grow in the
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• Punjab State Carrom Association
  ...as general secretary for both the Punjab State Carrom Association and the North Indian zone. ...rh]] Carrom Association, at [[Jallandhar]] (Punjab), under auspices of all India Carrom federation, on September 2nd to 7th, 2000. Here Shri Gurinder Singh
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• Jand
  ...medium size tree growing to about 6 m (20 feet), found mainly in desert of India. Common names include: Ghaf (United Arab Emirates), khejri, jant/janti, san ...the ecosystem of arid and semi-arid areas in this North-western part of [[India]]. This tree is a legume and it improves soil fertility
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• Apabhramsha
  ...y [[Sanskrit]] grammarians since Patañjali to refer to dialects of North [[India]] that deviate from the norm of Sanskrit grammar. The term apabhraṃśa in The term Prakrit (which includes Pĝli) is used for the popular dialects of India which were spoken until the 4th - 8th century, but some scholars use the te
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• Makhan Singh Sandhu
  ...propaganda literature, newspaper, and magazine articles for the people in India and other countries. ...an Community of North America especially his sacrifice and service to free India by taking an active part in Gadar Party Movement. Kooh-I-Noor Club honored
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• Moga
  ...rict is one of the nineteen districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India.
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• Places Visited by Guru Nanak
  ==India== ===North===
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• Khalistan House, Brussels
  ...The demonstration included a march to the consulate and then raising anti-India slogans and pro-Sikh Shaheed and pro-Khalistan slogans. This ended with the ...goals are the creation of an independant Sikh state of Khalistan in North India.
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• Rara Sahib
  '''Rara Sahib''' is a village near [[Ludhiana]] city in [[Punjab]], [[India]]. This village was transformed from simple "Rara" to "Rara Sahib" due to t ...located 22km south-east of Ludhiana, 14km north-east of Ahmedgarh and 22km north-west of Khanna. It lies on the Chawa-Payal-Ahmedgarh road and is situated o
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• Dhol
  ...into Gujarati, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Somalian and other cultures from North India and abroad. Nowadays, it is very popular in modern [[Punjabi]] music played ...n size to fit the needs of the bhangra players who do energetic dances. In India and Pakistan, the dhol remains large and bulky to produce the preferred lou
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• Kurukshetra
  ...Kurukshetra town and is about 160 Kilometres North of Delhi, 39 Kilometres North of Karnal and 40 Kilometres South of Ambala. It is at a distance of about 6 On the whole, the district is a plain which slopes from North East to South and South West. The plain is remarkable flat and within it, a
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• Lt. HH Farzand-i-sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-kaisar-i-hind Raja Sir Harindar Singh Brar Bans Bahadur
  ...989. He was the 12th ruler of the Princely State of [[Faridkot]], Punjab, India.
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• Tanpura
  ...music. The word "tanpura" (tanpoora) is common in the north, but in south India it is called "tambura", "thamboora", "thambura", or "tamboora". The tanpura ...trumental version sometimes called tamburi. The Miraj style is the typical north Indian tanpura (tambura). This is the favourite of Sikh and Hindustani musi
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• Yamuna
  ...e and fertile basin, known as the Gangetic plains, stretching across north India and Bangladesh. ...e places on her way. Reaching the Prayag, one of the most sacred places in India, she joins with Ganges. Then they both flow together till Ksheer Sagar. Bef
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• Mughal Empire
  ...and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan plateau in south India. ...nt. Reduced subsequently, especially during the East India Company rule in India, to the region in and around Old Delhi, the empire was formally dissolved b
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• Qassab
  .... But all Quraishis are not Qassab. The Quraishi Qassab are found in North India and Pakistan. They are also known as Chikwa, Bare Qasab, Bakar Qasab.
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• Jammu
  ...istered Kashmir to the west. Sandwiched between the Vale of Kashmir to the north and the Daman Koh Plains to the south, the Shivalik Range comprises most of ...o Devi, Jammu is one of the most famous pilgrimage tourism destinations in India. Once a seat of the Dogra Rajput dynasty, Jammu came under the control of [
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• Bhatia jatt
  ...e near KHAIR KATTO Road , Pakistan. Now, they are found in North region of INDIA and Pakistan.
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• Nanded
  ...international business, as it is one of the major cotton growing areas in India. ...Hyderabad. Nanded is well-connected to all parts of North India and South India by train.
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• Rishi Kesh
  ...holy city for Hindus located in the foothills of the Himalaya in northern India. It is also known as the gateway to Himalayas and it located about 25 kilom ...is also becoming a hot spot for white water rafting enthusiasts, both from India and abroad, as it offers medium to rough rapids in the course of river Gang
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• Pre-Independence : Sikhs Contribution to Freedom & Promises Made
  The Sikhs played a pioneering role in India's struggle for independence from the British. They made sacrifices wholly o ...the Sikh leaders and put forward the notion of Sikh-Hindu unity, a unified India where all Sikh sentiments (social, economical and religious) would be cater
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• Bob Singh Dhillon
  ...Japan. He was born in Japan in 1965. As a small child he was sent back to India for his schooling, he was educated at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, he is
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• Banga
  ...nshahr]] (now Shaheed Bhagat Singh district) in the state of [[Punjab]], [[India]]. It is located on the [[Punjab]] Plain to the east of this state. Its pop ...[[Amritsar]] and 1400 km from [[Mumbai]]. It is in the North-West part of India; a few hundred kilometres south of [[Kashmir]] and to the west of the Himal
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• Chahal Kalan
  ...a]]. It is a village in Aur Tehsil in Nawanshahr District of Punjab State, India. It is located 22 KM towards west from District head quarters . 11 KM from ...sil towards North , Phillaur Tehsil towards west , Phagwara Tehsil towards North , Nawanshahr Tehsil towards East .
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• Gurudwara Chadar Sahib (Baroch)
  ...nued his journey to North India. Bharuch is a famous city of Gujarat State(India) situated on the banks of river Narmada and located about 70kms from Vadoda
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• Braj
  ...{W|Braj Bhasha}}. Braj, though never a clearly defined political region in India but is very well demarcated culturally, is considered to be the land of Kri ...alect of Hindi, and was the predominant literary language of North-Central India before the switch to Khariboli in the 19th century.
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• Puran Singh Bajwa
  ...ts' (Nana’s) home at Chak 94, Toba Tek Singh, Tehsil, District Lyallpur, [[India]], on October 20, 1925, to his parents, Captain Kartar Singh and Narinder K ...nt Kaur (née Dhindsa) on September 28, 1945. Due to troubles during the of India in 1947, Dr. Bajwa was unable to finish his medical studies in Lahore. How
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• Gurdaspur
  ...is a city in the state of [[Punjab]], situated in the northwest part of [[India]]. It is located in the center of and is the administrative head of Gurdasp The district comprises an area of 1889 m². It is bounded on the north by Jammu and Kashmir; on the east by Kangra district and the [[Beas]] River
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• Dodra
  ...la]] about 45Kms to the north and [[Bathinda]] which is about 70Kms to the north-west. ...rom these main samagams, mini samagams are held at various places all over India every fortnight. At Dodra, [[kirtan]] is done by [[nishkam]] kirtaniyas an
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• Rupnagar
  ...s a town and district located in [[Punjab]] a state in the north east of [[India]]. This district is located to the west of Punjab. Ropar, enjoys great hist
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• Brij Bhasha
  ...gra-Mathura area, and stretches as far as the environs of Delhi. In modern India, this area lies mostly in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, the eastern extremiti In modern India, Braj Bhasha exists as an unofficial dialect spoken colloquially by natives
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• Gujranwala
  ...(45 miles) north of [[Lahore]] by road and rail. It is located at 32.160° North, 74.185° East and is 700 feet above sea-level. This is the birth place of ...ium (named after the man who was the driving force behind the partition of India and the Punjab, Mohamet Ali Jinnah the Quaid-I-Azam. It has many fine hospi
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• Wild Life Area at Abohar
  ...city and a municipal council in Firozpur district in the state of Punjab, India, located on the Ganganagar–Delhi railway route, nearly 50 km from Gangana ...production and is one of the biggest cotton producing belt in all of North India.
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• Umrao Singh Majithia
  ...Their plan was to win over Afghanistan and march a German Afghan army into India. Mahendra Partap was in touch with Umrao Singh who was related to him throu ...hat was to make her a world famous painter. The family finally returned to India in 1934. Umrao Singh had his estate in Gorakhpur, in Uttar Pradesh, and had
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• Ontario Khalsa Darbar
  '''Ontario Khalsa Darbar''' is the largest and busiest Sikh gurdwara in North America. The gurdwara sits on 36 acres (146,000 m²) of land in the city of ...lot of popularity. It has an atmosphere like if it is a major gurdwara in India. A new plan in 2004 was announced to build a 3 million dollar parking lot.
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• Fatehgarh sahib
  ...district, one of the twenty districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. ...1], the place is the today commemorated by Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib, 5 km. north of the Sirhind [2].
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• North America
  In North America, the countries of [[Canada]] and [[USA]] have a large number of Sik ...nited States, most of them came in the mid 1980s, to escape persecution in India.
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• El Sobrante Gurdwara Sahib
  About twenty miles north of Oakland and Berkeley and San Francisco another few miles across the Hist ...the El Sobrante Valley you can find the most magnificent Gurdwara Sahib of North America. The gold domed Gurdwara Sahib and the fluttering saffron Nishan Sa
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• Different Turbans
  ...mated 18 million Sikhs in the world, with some 2 million spread throughout North America, Western Europe and the former British colonies. ...made out of fancy woven cloths and festooned with jewels are not unique to India. As far away as Turkey, men have used the headgear to demonstrate their wea
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• History of Jammu and Kashmir
  ...kh]] are believed to be descendants of a blended race of the Mons of North India, the Dards of Baltistan and the Mongols of Central Asia. Majority of the po ...he east, the Konkan in the south, Turkistan in north-west and Tibet in the north. [[Kashmir]] passed into the hands of Muslims rulers in 1324.
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• Scotland wooes students from Punjab
  ...d that along with other staff members of Napier University, he would visit India on a regular basis, to interview the students for on the spot admissions in ...S is representing Napier University in India and has eight officers in the north of the country including Gurgaon (head office), Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Amrits
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• Battle of Chillianwala
  ...draw, it was a strategic check to Britain, and damaged British prestige in India. ...and Sher Singh had no aims in common. Sher Singh decided to move his army north, to join that of his father, General Chattar Singh Attariwalla, who had als
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• Assam
  ...ahmaputra and the Barak river valleys along with the Karbi Anglong and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles (78,438 km²). ...cultures, peoples and climate with South-East Asia - important elements in India’s Look East policy.
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• Bairagis
  ...ell. Baron Charles Hugel, the famous German traveller who visited northern India during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, mentions one Tamu or Tamu Shah, 1. Crooke, W., The Tribes and Castes of the North Western India. Delhi, 1974
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• Turk
  ...d in parts of Afghanistan and later established the first Muslim empire in India. 1. Rose, H.A., ed., A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Lahore, 1911-19
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• Bhagti
  ...d their respective schools of bhakti between AD 200-900. It came to north India much later. “The Dravid country is the birthplace of bhakti school; bhak In the north, the cult was essentially Vaisnava-based, but instead of being focussed on
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• CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS OF 1919
  ...by Indians in the Punjab, 7 out of 67 nonofficial seats in the Assembly of India and 4 seats in the Council of States for the Sikh community remained largel 5. Brass, Paul R., Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Delhi, 1975
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• Rivers of Punjab
  [[Punjab]] is the '''land of five rivers''' in north west [[India]] and north east [[Pakistan]]. '''''Punj''''' means "five" and '''''aab''''' means "wat ...yallpur (Faisalabad), Montgomery, etc. The area beyond the Chenab river in North and around river [[Jhelum]] is called Pothohar, cities include Rawalpindi,
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• Ganges
  ...e and fertile basin, known as the Gangetic plains, stretching across north India and Bangladesh. Its mouth or delta ends in the Sundarbunds- a low-lying all The river has a long history of reverence in [[India]] and is worshipped by [[Hindu]]s as a goddess. It is often called the 'hol
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• Councillor Makhan Singh
  ...illages are served by the following wards: Chalk Higham Meopham: 2 wards North & South Shorne, Cobham & Luddesdowne Vigo is part of the Meopham South war ...was built in the 1830s when halfway around the world, in India, the East India Company was finding it wiser to make peace with [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]
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• Sardar Sukkha Singh Kalsi
  ...f Ahmad Shah Durrani at Serai Nurdin during the latter's first invasion of India early in-1748. ...n attack on the Punjab capital. Sukkha Singh, out on a foraging expedition north of the river, encountered a strong body of enemy troops A fierce action too
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• Himachal Pradesh
  ...d [[Punjab]] is in the West. Himachal is located between 30"22' and 30"12' north latitude and between 75"47' and 79"4' east longitude. It is a mountainous s ...[Punjab]]. Himachal Pradesh became a full fledged state of the Republic of India on January 25, 1971.
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• World Sikh News
  ...ame of "Amritsar Times". This is the only Sikh weekly paper published from North America with a print run of 5,000 copies and increasing; besides the presen ...rk on 20th century [[Sikh history]]. He splits his time between the US and India.
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• Mughal rule
  ...Lame, from which the Western name Tamerlane is derived), who had invaded India and plundered Delhi in 1398 and then led a short-lived empire based in Sa ...an decisively at Panipat (in modern-day Haryana, about ninety kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, moveable artillery, and superior cavalry
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• Sahajdhari
  ...cieties, confined prior to the migrations of 1947, mainly to north-western India, were the Sahajdhari Committee of Multan, Guru Nanak Sahajdhari Diwan of Pa ...dispersed in the country. Their India-wide forum was the Sarab Hind (All-India) Sahajdharis Conference which rotated from town to town for its annual sess
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• Alexander Gardner
  ...rly every traveler and explorer who came through Kashmir on the way to the north and west. Very little is known about his life, as many of his stories were G. Grey in his book, ''European Adventures Of Northern India, 1785 to 1849'', describes Alexander Gardner as a fake calling his Memoirs
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• Punjab (India)
  [[Image:Punjab-map.jpg|thumb|300px|right|{{c|This is the [[Punjab]] in [[India]]}}]] ...[[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. It is situated in the north western region of India. Punjab has a predominantly [[Sikh]] population.
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• Bhai Sahib Satpal Singh Khalsa
  ...rdani Rajinder Kaur on 1st August, 1956 in Madras, now known as Chennai, [[India]]. He did his schooling from Summer Fields High School in Greater Kailash, ...als. Unitech, DLF, Raheja and several other regional developers from South India in USA.
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• Mansa
  Mansa District is situated in [[Punjab]], [[India]]. The main town is Mansa. It was formed on 13th April 1992 from the erst w ...n shape, and is bounded on the north west by [[Bathinda]] District, on the north east by [[Sangrur]] District, and on the south by [[Haryana]] state name. T
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• Gurudwara Nanakwadi Sahib
  ...jputana and the [[Punjab]] in the north, Malwa and the Ganga valley in the north-east, Konkan in the south and Khandesh in the south-east. Address: Nanakwadi, Nr Khanderao Market, Vadodara - 390010 (Gujarat) INDIA
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• Bob Dillon
  ...moved to Liberia to do business in that African country and I was sent to India to study at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla. That’s why I speak theth Punj ...ung Indian-Canadian also set up the Pan Pacific Mercantile Group to export North American brands like Tabasco to South Asia.
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• Sardar Bhup Singh
  ...April 1809), which limited Ranjit Singh's authority mainly to territories north of the River Sutlej. The chief of Ropar, Bhup Singh, was removed as prisone
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• Tazkirah
  ...ing to Nadir Shah's invasion is found in Elliot and Dowson, The Histoty of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, Vol. VIII. A brief account of the life of ...of several towns, the climate, flora and fauna of different parts of north India, and of bridges and boats is very interesting and useful to historians.
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• Mehndi
  ...emporary form of skin decoration in [[India]], South Asia, Southwest Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as by expatriate communities from th
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• Rupak Taal
  Rupak tal is a common seven beat tal in Northern India. ...is found in film songs, kheyal, gazal, instrumental pieces; virtually any north Indian form. The only forms where it is absent are the dhrupad and dhammar
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• Dr. Harbans Lal
  ...d Chairman, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Texas, and Emeritus Professor of ...books, several research reviews and 56 chapters in technical books. U. of North Texas Health Science Center established a pre-doctoral fellowship award in
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• Kanwar Singh Dhillon
  ...n''' is a young [[Sikh]] artist. He was born in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab]] [[India]] and has been engaged in the process of art making for as long as he can r * Kanwar Singh, P.O. Box 33054 930 North Park Brampton, ON L6S 3Y5 Canada
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• Majha
  ...the base and bounded by the Sivaliks in the east, the River Chenab in the north, and roughly the line of 73°-30'East longitude in the west. It has a conti ==Religion in the India Majha==
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• Gurah
  ...a. When travelling from the GT road (Highway NH1) at Goraya, Gurah is in a north-westerly direction from this town. The maps location can be found [http:/ ...of [[Gurah]] also sometimes spelt Gura, Jallandar District, [[Punjab]], [[India]] and belonged to a family which had long served great holy men of the reg
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• Sikh Global Village
  ...nish, but others have retained their Indian links, speak Punjabi and visit India. In a town called Rosario de la Frontera, they have built a small Gurdwara- Note: Mr. Swarn Kahlon is based in Chandigarh, India, and can be contacted at [email protected]
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• Bihar
  ...in respect to climate, economy and culture. It is bounded by Nepal in the north and by Jharkhand in the south. The Bihar plain is divided into two unequal ...101hs Video - Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sheetal Kund Rajgir, Dist- Nalanda Bihar(India) | JotTV Present]
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• Kargil
  ...feet above sea level. It shares the Line of Control (LoC) with POK in the north and borders with Leh in the east and the Kashmir valley in the west. The ge ...ation has little contact with and no exposure to the outer world including India, hence they are very honest and trustworthy. Kargil includes the world's co
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• Mahant Pritam Daas
  ...his initiation, Pritam Das set out on a pilgrimage of holy places in North India and Nepal. Later, he became a disciple ofMahatmaBankhandi (17631863), the w
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• Milkha Singh Thehpuria
  ...w houses and fortifying the town. [[Rawalpindi]] being on the highway into India, was a vulnerable possession exposed to attacks of Afghan invaders, but Mil ...Lahore by the name of Thehpuria, after the village he had found, in the north he was known as Milkha Singh Pindivala. [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]], whom Mil
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• Sikhs around 1900
  ...emerged. The British writers began to travel to this part north western [[India]] and came across the people of the Punjab. They began to understand the [[ ...and left behind them, feelings that should draw closer the ties which bind India and its people to the British Crown. Politically it was a practical gain fo
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• Mirasi
  ...rasi community are the genealogists of a number of communities in Northern India and Pakistan. Most Mirasis are Muslim, but Rababi and Dhadi sub-groups are ==In North India==
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• Basarke Gillan
  ...5|N|74.767|E}}) is a small village in [[Amritsar]] district, [[Punjab]], [[India]]. It is located 13 km (8 miles) south-west of city of Amritsar. This is th ...ar-Atari-Lahore road, which passes at a distance of about 5 km away to the North of the village. The [[Gurdwara San Sahib]] is situated at this village. It
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• Giani Anup Singh
  ...nd understanding Gurbani. He moved to India at the age of seven after the India and Pakistan partition of 1947. He travelled with his family to Kurukshetr ...cided to follow him for the remainder of his life. He spent some time in [[India]] with Giani Sant Singh Ji Maskeen, going to various [[Gurudwara]]s, doing
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• Sikhs & Indian Independence
  15 August marks India's Independence Day and prolongs the suffering of the [[Sikh]]s. We are clea #During the Quit India Movement many indiscriminate arrests were made and Sikhs contributed 70% of
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• Mohan Singh
  ...was famous for his part in the Indian National Army for the liberation of India from British rule, in which he held the rank of a general. He was born the ...Singh was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment, then serving in the North-West Frontier Province. He was selected as a potential officer in 1931, and
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• Indus
  ...Kashmir in both [[Indian]] Kashmir and Northern Areas, flowing through the North in a southernly direction along the entire length of the country, to merge
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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 co ...State Government on lease for 60 years. The departure of the British from India being imminent, it was decided to terminate this lease and hand Gilgit back
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• Gurudwara Daya Singh Ji (Aurangabad)
  ...oughly north east from [[Mumbai]], 1209 Km south from [[Delhi]] and 270Km north-west from [[Nanded]]. * [http://www.historicalgurudwaras.com/India/Maharashtra/GurudwaraShriBhaiDayaSinghJiateBhaiDharamSinghJi/gallery.php Ph
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• World Muslim Sikh Federation
  ...n and India, in fact, the most severe and brutal conflicts, in the case of India, exist between the government and its civilian populations. More specifical ...h such movements and pummel into submission those who talk of freedom from India and justice for the crimes the Indian state and security forces have commit
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• Sikhism in the USA
  ...y Sikhs began arriving to work on California farms. The state of [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] was hit hard by British practices of [[mercantilism]]. They came ....com/sikhsinnorthamerica.html Sikhism in North America, America, "Sikhs in North America"] [[31 October]] [[2006]]</ref>
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• Taimur Shah
  ...resent in Delhi in January 1757 during Ahmad Shah's fourth inroad into India. In February 1757, Taimur was married at the age often to the daughter of t ...nd from Multan and Sindh in the south, to Kangra, Jammu and Bhimbar in the north. Taimur Shah made several attempts to recover his lost territories and cons
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• Jagdish Tytler case in the NEWS
  ===New Delhi: The Times of India=== ...e persons, including one Badal Singh in 1984, near Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi was re-investigated by CBI after a court had in December 2007 refused
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• Kangra
  '''Kangra''' is the most populous district of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Dharamsala is the administrative headquarters of the district. ...The district is bounded by the Himachal Pradesh districts of Chamba to the north, Lahul and Spiti to the northeast, Kullu to the east, Mandi to the southeas
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• Jagjit Singh Chauhan
  ...e Punjab Assembly from the Tanda as a candidate of the Republican Party of India in 1967. He became Deputy Speaker when the Akali Dal-led coalition Governme ...York Times proclaiming an Independent Sikh state. In 1977, he returned to India, but he migrated again to Britain in 1979. In London, Chauhan created an or
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• Gurmit Singh Aulakh
  ...7, 1987, Aulakh and his associates declared Khalistan's independence from India. Aulakh was declared as the President by the Panthic Committee selected by ...nal records that a Christian organization called the "Persecuted Church of India" had thanked Aulakh for his efforts.
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• Sialkot
  '''Sialkot''' is that name of a city and district situated in the north-east of the [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]] province in [[Pakistan]] at the fe ...5km north-west of [[Lahore]] and only a few kilometres from [[Jammu]] in [[India]]. Sialkot District of Punjab, is also known as the Darap region, and also
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• August
  ..., belong to New Zealand. The son of a sheep-farmer had come to Punjab, the north Indian border province that has a [[Sikh]] majority population, as a Christ *15: India Independence Day
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• Punjab - Sikhs’ most precious gift to India
  ...ir part appeased both Hindus and Muslims by offering them separate states- India and Pakistan. Sir Cyril Radcliff was assigned the job of creating two count The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan have not been studied in one important aspect
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• Thapar University
  ...y conducted by DataQuest it was rated among the top engineering schools in India. ...nza features large participation from prestigious institutes from all over India. The students publish their own magazines, AVANT GARDE, which represents th
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• Langa choli
  ...tends to the toe, upper part of the body is covered with a choli. In South India, it is known as Langa. In Punjabi, it's known as a "lehnga". It is also som ...is preferred as bridal clothing for most parts. However, in some parts of India, brides wear different kinds of clothes ornaments and adornments.
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• Aundha Nagnath
  ...on of the Indian state of [[Maharashtra]]. The town is located about 64 km north west of the famous Sikh Takhat, [[Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazoor Sahib]] at [[ {{India}}
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• Chenab
  ...he upper Himalayas, in the Lahul and Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, [[India]]. In its upper reaches it is also known as the Chandrabhaga. It flows thro ...s two sources one which flows down south known as Chandra and that goes to North named as Bhaga. About 26 Km further south from Manali (a tourist place in H
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• Second Battle of Panipat
  ...ime of his father.s death, which was not announced until Akbar returned to India. ...eror of India during the 1500s. He fought Afghan rebels[1][2] across North India from the Punjab to Bengal[3] and the Mughal forces of Akbar and Humayun in
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• July 27
  ...wara. The sarowar is popularly known as "Gangsar". About a mile and a half north of Jaito is "Tibhi Sahib" Gurudwara, where Guru Gobind Singh Patshah used t ...nd the strongest possible message to the Government of India that Sikhs of India and abroad will not gorget its actions,
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• Kuldip Singh Sidhu
  The prize is awarded by BioMed North Limited, a not-for-profit agency for the management and commercialisation o "I returned to India, armed with my knowledge of new technology and went on to win the Young Sci
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• The Nalwa Wall
  ...e Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir of Afganistani invaders and their Kingdoms, India and Pakistan would look a lot different on the map today for both would hav ...befor Babar, the Afganis, Persians and then the Afganis again had come to India to rob it of its riches and people.
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• Punjab (Pakistan)
  * [[Punjab (India)|'''See also Punjab (India)''']] ...of the Punjab and the Indian part of Jammu and Kashmir are to the East and North-East.
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• Kedara
  ...aga]] (composition) that appears in the [[Sikh]] tradition from northern [[India]] and is part of the Sikh holy scripture called [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]] J ...v Ji’s time or even earlier, which has become a very important and popular North Indian raga today. It is supposed to possess magical qualities, if correctl
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• Sangrur
  ...d capital of the Sangrur district in the [[Indian]] state of [[Punjab]], [[India]]. Sangrur is the district headquarter. It is located on cross section of [ As of 2001 India census, Sangrur had a population of 78,717. Males constitute 54% of the pop
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• Sindhi
  ...tly Muslim, while many Sindhi Hindus imigrated to [[India]] when [[British India]] was divided in 1947. ...al scene. They like to be always ``sugar-in-milk'' with the locals. In the north, they apply ``Sindhur'' in the `Maang' (part of the wife's hair). In Bombay
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• Bathinda
  ...da.jpg|thumb|350px|right|{{cs|'''Bhathinda District in [[Punjab state]], [[India]]}}]] ...f the oldest and most famous cities in [[Punjab]] state of north-western [[India]]. The old town was called Vikramgarh during the pre-Muhammadan period. Tra
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• Kabul
  ...highways with [[Pakistan]] to the east and southeast and Tajikistan to the north. ...d Kabul and used it as his headquarters until 1526, before his conquest of India. In 1776, Timur Shah Durrani made it the capital of modern Afghanistan.[3]
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• Bhai Gangu Shah
  # Crooke, W., The Tribes and Castes of theNorth Western India. Delhi, 1974 # Ibbetson, Denzil, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier
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• Bidar
  [[Image:India Karnataka locator map.svg.png|thumb|400px|right|Map of India showing the southern state of Karnataka]] ...dia:Karnataka|Karnataka]]. It is 110 km north-west of [[Hyderabad]], 40 km north-east of Gulbarga and is a railway station on the Vikarabad- Parlivaijnath s
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• Sikh Gurdwara Sahib Stockton
  ...er gurdwaras, it has retained its pre-eminence in the religious history of North American Sikhs. Whenever there is a reference to the immigration of Sikh to Since a vast majority of first immigrants from [[India]] were Sikhs, the earliest immigration organization centered on Gurdwaras.
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• Kamboj
  The Kambojas were an Indo-European Kshatriya tribe of Iron Age India, frequently mentioned in (post-Vedic) Sanskrit and Pali literature, making ...heir descendants held various principalities in Medieval India, the one in north-west Bengal being seized, around middle of tenth century CE, from the Palas
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• Bahadur Shah
  ..."brave"), also known as '''Shah Alam I''' was the [[Mughal]] emperor of [[India]] from 1707 to 1712. He replaced his father [[Aurangzeb]]. In contrast to h ...ru in taking the throne in 1707. Also, he travelled with the Guru from the north to [[Nanded]] where they parted company.
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• Battle of Gujarat
  ...After it capitulated a few days later, the Punjab was annexed to the East India Company's territories and its ruler, the infant Duleep Singh, was deposed. ...my, the Khalsa, was kept in being and used to keep order in the Punjab and North West Frontier Region. The Khalsa regarded itself as betrayed rather than de
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• Dr. Gurtej Singh Sandhu
  ...tute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He holds over 1,300 U.S. patents and is rec ...tute of Technology – Delhi in India and a physics PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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• Jammu and Kashmir
  ...Pakistan]] to the north and west and the People's Republic of China to the north-east and east. ...h, Gulab Singh soon captured Ladakh and Baltistan, regions to the east and north-east of Kashmir.
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• Jagjit Singh Hans
  Jagjit Singh Hans (born 1944 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India) is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tig ...2000. Singh now spends his time doing charitible works in both Canada and India, wrestling on occasion, and is trying to start up his own Indian based prom
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• Pakhawaj
  ...ussion instrument which is similar to the mridangam. It is famous in North India. It is widely used for orissi dancers and sometimes for kathak. It is the s
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• Kshatriya
  ...e dominant commercial and financial administration class of late- medieval India.[[Khatri|Khatris]] claim that they are Kshatriyas. While some historians ag Some scholars consider castes in north India, like Khatri and Kayastha to be merchant castes who claim higher status to
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• Ghadriite Harnam Singh Tundilat
  ...et contained an ironic allusion to Sir Henry Hardinge, governor-general of India (1844-48) at the time of the first Anglo-Sikh war, who was called by the Pu ...along with Kartar Singh Sarabha and Jagat Singh of Sursingh escaped to the North-West Frontier Province to seek temporary refuge in Afghanistan and plan afr
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• Harpal Singh Kasoor
  ...rn on April 4, 1958 in Fetehgarh Panjtoor in Ferozepur district of Punjab, India. Soon after his birth, his parents moved to Bhodi in Hissar district. He pa ...hakar and historian, he travelled to New Zealand, Australia, many parts of North America ,England,Italy and Greece.
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• Heroism at the battle of Galli Poli
  ...f his expeditionary force. Sir Hamilton wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India. ...his battle was L/Nk Bhola Singh. When Lt. Gen. Sir Reginald Savory came to India in 1968 to attend the presentation of colours ceremony at Meerut, L/Nk Bhol
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• Malwa
  ...°-50 and 76°-50' East longitudes. It is bounded by the River Sutlej in the north, Haryana in the east and the south, Rajasthan in the southwest corner, and G.A. Grierson, ''Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IX, Part I'', who based his demarcations of Malwi on the spoken diale
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• Punjabi and Gurmukhi Computing Resources
  ...abi/punjabi_TT.htm Punjabi True Type Fonts - Distributed by MCIT, Govt. of India] ...Punjabi Unicode Compliant Open Type Fonts - Distributed by MCIT, Govt. of India]
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• Kanara
  ...aga]] (composition) that appears in the [[Sikh]] tradition from northern [[India]] and is part of the Sikh holy scripture called [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]] J ...t raga is not equalled. Raga Darbari Kanada is assumed by many to be North India's greatest raga. There are a number of ragas in the Kanada family of ragas.
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• Punjabi
  ...in this region. This area is situated in North West part of [[India]] and North East [[Pakistan]] and includes the cities of [[Amritsar]], [[Lahore]], [[Ja The Punjabi people suffered a split between India and Pakistan during the Partition of 1947. However, Punjabi language and cu
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• Siege of Multan
  ...19, 1848, when a rebellion in the city against a ruler imposed by the East India Company precipitated the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and January 22, 1849, when ...maintain practical independence while being nominally subject to the East India Company.
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• Bhatt-vahis
  ...esfield as quoted in W. Crooke, The Tribes and Castes of the North Western India, 1896, Bhatts are an "offshoot from those secularised Brahmans who frequent
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• First Woman Vice-Chancellor in north India
  {{p|File:InderjitKaur-a.jpg|First Woman Vice-Chancellor in north India, Inderjit Kaur}} ...dern lady with formidable experience, who held two of the top positions in India.
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• Hinduism in Punjab
  Map of early Iron Age Vedic India after Witzel (1989). Realms or tribes are labelled black, Foreign tribes me Peshawar(Purushapur) , North West Frontier Province: Capital of Kanishka, the Kushan ruler and the site
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• Bhai Sukkha Singh
  ...n attack on the Punjab capital. Sukkha Singh, out on a foraging expedition north of the river, encountered a strong body of enemy troops. A fierce action to
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• Bhai Dya Singh
  He claims his maternal grandfather, who was visiting from [[Punjab]], [[India]] used to get quite a kick out of listening to him reciting verses from the ...s in UK to 'ghazal', 'qawali' and 'bhajan' singing. Being already adept at North Indian semi-classical singing, he took to these other forms naturally and e
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• Minhas
  Minhas (मिनहास) is Rajput and Jat Gotra found in Punjab, India and in Pakistan. In the Western Punjab Virks are supposed to belong to Mahe ...hal Pradesh and Indian Punjab, Sikh Minhas Rajputs, mainly inhabit Punjab (India) and Muslim Minhas Rajputs reside in Pakistani Punjab and Pakistan controll
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• Punjabi language
  ...s spelled Panjabi) is the official language of the [[Punjab]] regions of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. It is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian sub Punjabi culture, much like its Bengali counterpart, suffered a split between India and Pakistan during the Partition of 1947. As such, Punjabi language and cu
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• Singh Twins
  ...a medical doctor who immigrated to North England from the [[Punjab]] in [[India]]. The twins have to be thanked for initiating a new movement in the reviva
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• Jagjit Singh sets new world record
  ...c styles and has had the opportunity to work with many famous artists from India and Canada. He continues to travel widely, to the UK and as far as Australi Jagjit Singh 'Batalvi' was born and raised in Batala, a small city in Punjab, India, and was always a great music lover and passionate about playing Tabla (an
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• THE GANDHI - JINNAH APPEAL FOR PEACE
  ...re and were to spread out into most parts of Northern, Eastern and Central India in the form of serious communal rioting. The Viceroy sincerely wanted this ...essness and violence that have brought utmost disgrace to the fair name of India and the greatest misery to innocent people, irrespective of who were the ag
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• Akbar
  ...o decades to consolidate his power and bring parts of northern and central India into his realm. During his reign, he reduced external military threats from ...in the north, Bengal in the east, and beyond the Narmada River in central India--an area comparable in size to the Mauryan territory some 1,800 years earli
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• Dakhni
  Dakhni is the Language in which the Composite Culture of India was Born Mother of Modern Urdu and Hindi. When Wali Dakhni (also known as W ...it was Deccan that established the use of Khari Boli replacing Braj in the North. In fact, even the name Hindi for the language originated in the South. A T
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• General Mohan Singh Deb
  ...Singh was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment, then serving in the North-West Frontier Province. He was selected as a potential officer in 1931, and ...ho would form the Azad Hind Fauj (Free India Army) to fight for liberating India from the British rule.
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• Waris Shah
  ...was born in Jandiala Sher Khan, Sheikhupura District, Punjab is popular in India and Pakistan, especially in the Punjab region. ...is education in Kasur, he moved to Malka Hans, a village twelve kilometers north of Pakpattan. Here he resided in a small room, adjacent to a historic mosqu
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• Chandni Chowk
  ...''' is one of the oldest and busiest markets in central north [[Delhi]], [[India]]. The area is in the historically important Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) and
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• Gurdwara Pokhran Sahib
  ...out 12 km to the north of Pokhran in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India. Baba Ramdevji, was a Tanwar Rajput who had died in 1384. Guru Sahib would
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• Sikhs in Argentina
  ...outh American nations, and so they stayed, eventually concentrating in the north, which reminded them of the scrappy mountains and plains of Punjab. ...gurdwara in all of South America – a testimony to the small community from India’s Punjab region which has settled here.
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• Faridkot
  ...kot.jpg|thumb|350px|right|{{cs|'''Faridkot District in [[Punjab state]], [[India]]}}]] ...under British rule, but now it is a district in [[Punjab]] in independent India.
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• Palahi
  '''PALAHI''', village 4 km north of [[Phagwara]] (31° 14'N, 75° 46'E) in the [[Punjab]], is sacred to [[ ...Road and G.T. Road , on a link road which is 3 kms. from Phagwara, on the North side of Phagwara. There were forests, consisting of specially PALLAH trees.
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• Bahadur Khan
  ...Bangladesh, (then British India), and died in October 3, 1989 in Calcutta, India. He was the son of famous Indian classical musician Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, ne Ustad Bahadur Khan was a regular performer at the All India Radio, Radio Pakistan, and Radio Bangladesh. He composed and directed music
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• Todi
  ...aga]] (composition) that appears in the [[Sikh]] tradition from northern [[India]] and is part of the Sikh holy scripture called [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]] o ...day the head of a thata. It is considered one of the most important of the north Indian ragas. Todi was used by the Gurus for 32 hymns.
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• Sri Muktsar Sahib
  |country=India ...in [[Sri Muktsar Sahib district]] in the [[Punjab, India|Eastern Punjab]] (India).<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100201/punjab.htm#4 The official
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• Himalayas
  The upland valley in the north east corner of [[Jammu]] and [[Kashmir]] state, is situated among the pictu ...ley towards Leh. This river merges into the [[Indus]] near [[Magnetic Hill India]] in Leh . This frozen ice highway, known as the Chador road since olden ti
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• History
  ...3 million Sikhs in the world today, the vast majority live in the [[Punjab|north Indian state of Punjab]]. [[Sikhism]] or [[Sikhi]] is the fifth largest org ...reciting of holy hymns called [[Shabad]]s. The Gurus taught the people of India & beyond, to live spiritually fulfilling lives with dignity and honour.
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• Harmonium
  ...uring the mid-19th century missionaries brought hand-pumped harmonium to [[India]], where it quickly became popular due to its portability and its low price ...ptaks. This instrument is very easy to handle and is very popular in North India. The beginner can easily play it and learn both vocal and instrumental musi
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• Abbotsford Sikh Temple
  ...al Historic site and possibly the oldest standing [[Sikh]] [[Gurdwara]] in North America. It was built in 1911 and is the oldest surviving example of the te ...ian pioneers were young Sikh men who had to leave their families behind in India so they could earn money abroad to support them. The Abbotsford Lumber Comp
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• Tabla
  ...northern regions of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, northern [[India]], [[Pakistan]]).''' ...19th centuries, when significant changes took place in the music of North India.
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• Giani Nahar Singh
  ...icycle." He traveled far and wide, to different historic gurduaras in both India and Pakistan, on his bicycle. His commitment to Sikhi was such that even in ...96, Giani Ji had been very actively involved in kirtan samagams all across North America and Europe. In this role, he mentored hundreds of individuals walki
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• Sir David Ochterlony
  ...husetts, on 12 February 1758. In 1777, he joined the service of the [[East India Company]] as a cadet. He served under Lord Lake in the battle of Delhi an ...ratpur succession issue. He died on 15 July 1825 in Meerut, about (35 mi) north-east of New Delhi. The Ochterlony column at Calcutta commemorates his name
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• Fourth Udasi
  ...si.jpg|thumb|250px|Guru Nanak Dev Ji accompanied by Mardana Ji in Northern India|right]] ...with his companion [[Bhai Mardana]]. He travelled in all four directions - North, East, West and South. The founder [[Sikh Guru]] is believed to have travel
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• Rahira
  ...hird battle of Panipat in January 1761, considered himself master of north India, was peeved at the open challenge to his supremacy when, during his return
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• Khalsa Aid
  ...ity (#1080374) with the UK Charities Commission and also has volunteers in North America & Asia. Khalsa Aid has provided relief assistance to victims of dis * Orissa (India) - Rehabilitating the School System After a Devastating Cyclone
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• Gurmat & Jainism
  Jainism is the oldest living Shramana tradition in India. In its current form, the Jain tradition is traced to Vardhamana Mahavira ( ...s. Sikhism was established in 15th century in the state of Punjab in North India. Guru Nanak, although born into a Hindu household in 1469 in the Punjab reg
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• Labana Clans
  ...when they came to the [[Punjab region]] during [[Nadir Shah's invasion of India]] in 1739.<ref name="jaswant"/> ...bana Groups, Page 3, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West, HA Rose</ref> Matiana, Limtiana, Mundar, Bahadri, Dedeie, Fatekhani,
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• Radcliffe Award
  ...especially invited to fix the boundaries between the newly created States, India and Pakistan. The Commission was also charged with the delimiting of the bo ...appointment of Lord Mountbatten as the new Viceroy and Governor-General of India, had announced:
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• Sikh bravery
  Sikhs from the Northern state of [[India]], spring from martial races, whose fighting traditions are still proven on ...ry part of the country. The bulk of the Indian Army was recruited from the north, which is the origin of the traditionally martial race, who had won many de
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• Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
  ...ty state, for doing so, he earned the sobriquet of a "supercop" in rest of India. ...diatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1183776,prtpage-1.cms </ref><ref>[http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/505/505%20pratiksha%20baxi.htm 505 Pratiksha Baxi, Sexual
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• Ajaypal Singh Banga
  ...r. Banga is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Birthplace: Khadki, Pune, India
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Mombasa
  ...g as managers and foremen -- to lay a 576 kilometre treacherous track from North-west Mombasa which passed through a semi-desert region, to the highlands ri ...ssociation in Kenya is the Sri Guru Singh Sabha an organization founded in India in 1873 to revitalise the Khalsa movement. The Sikh organizers came out wit
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• SANGH EXTREMISTS JUSTIFY MURDERS
  ...turns up like a smile, but his words would chill the soul of any Muslim in India. ...ndu god Vishnu, on the site of a mosque demolished by Hindu zealots in the north Indian town of Ayodhya. The trainload of Hindus attacked by Muslims on Wedn
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• Comrade Achhar Singh Chhina
  ...a Singh and Chaman Lal Datta “Who's who: Punjab Freedom Fighters” (Punjab, India) 1991 p5 </ref>. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in He was born at village Harsha Chhina, Tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar, Punjab, India. Achhar Singh Chhina done his basic studies from Khalsa College Amritsar wh
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• Gurbachan Singh Salaria
  ...h; 1961) is a military war hero, who was awarded the [[Param Vir Chakra]], India's highest wartime military award. ...ve a Salaria Gotra."'' Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province, pp 848, H. A. Rose, IBBETSON, Maclagan, Published b
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• Lieutenant General Maharaja Yadavinder Singh
  ...r, persuasive in diplomacy, knowledgeable in botany and agriculture,modern India's nearest, equivalent to ideal renaissance man. ...ronment. Son of [[Maharaja Bhupinder Singh]], one of the most prominent of India's 600 odd ruling princes, Yadavinder Singh was brought up in a luxurious at
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• Surjit Singh Penta
  ...alites victims before they become perpetrators? Are young militants in the north-east and Kashmir brutalised before they become brutal? Is the ordinary citi
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• Hindu
  ...a person that follows the religion of [[Hinduism]], which was founded in [[India]] some 5000 years ago. Hinduism contains set of faiths made by different pe ...ahabharta. It appears that this name was given to the indigenous people of India by the Muslim invaders. They referred to the people living near the Sindhu
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• Nalwa and NWFP
  ...ns, along with the entire trans-Indus territories, would have been lost to India forever. They would not have been part of the British Empire. Pakistan woul ...he Peshawar tribes, were extremely warlike. Muhammadzai inhabited the area north east of Peshawar. The Gigians had their settlements south of Muhammadzai ar
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• Adi Granth Our Living Guru is not for Research
  ...McLeod. Dr. McLeod is a native of New Zealand who came to Kharar, Panjab, India to work as a missionary teacher in 1958. At that time, he was not at all a ...is interpretation is being done due to the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India.<br>
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• Saragarhi mentioned in the London Gazette
  ...irect the publication of the subjoined letter from the Adjutant-General in India, submitting despatches from Major-General A. G. Yeatman-Biggs, C.B., Comman I have honour … to forward, for information of the Government of India despatches …. which describe the measure taken by the officer to repel at
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• ISI former head says Sikh community gives him "next-to-Guru" status?
  India’s Sikh Militants Forming Ties with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistani Intellig In 1984, India attempted to drive Sikh separatists from the site under Operation Blue Star
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• Guru Nanak in Manipur
  ...sq km with a population of 10,72,735 as per 1971 census and bounded on the north by Nagaland, on the east by Burma, on the South by Mizoram and on the west ...e Sikhs began to live in the Manipur valley lying in the Eastern border of India.
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• Surinder Shinda
  ...s,<ref>{{cite book |title=World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific |last=Broughton |first=Simon |coauthors=Mark Ellingham |y
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• Gurudongmar Lake
  ...the world located at an altitude of 17,100 feet (5,148 m). It lies on the North side of the Khangchengyao Range in a high plateau area contiguous to the Ti ...ed close to the Indo-China Border in the province of North Sikkim, Sikkim, India.
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• Gurdwara Reetha Sahib
  '''Gurdwara Reetha Sahib''' is only 60 kms. by flying distance north of Nanak Mata, but the distance by motorable road is 209 kms. It is 166 kms [[http://www.historicalgurudwaras.com/India/UttraKhand/GurudwaraShriReethaSahib/gallery.php Gurdwara Shri Reetha Sahib]
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• Sikhism facts
  ...llion Sikhs live in [[India]], primarily in the state of [[Punjab]] in the north west part of the sub-continent. Outside the Punjab, large populations of Si ...align:right;"|Founded:|| in about 1499 in [[Punjab]], Bharat (pre colonial India)
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• Kiratpur
  ...on the bank of the Sutlej about 10 km south of [[Anandpur]], about 30 km north of [[Rupnagar]] and 90 Kms from Chandigarh on the [[Nangal]]-[[Rupnagar]]- ...s.yahoo.com/#?lat=31.1766785&lon=76.5547943&z=6 Click here to go to Yahoo! India Maps]
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• Totapuri
  ...1864, Tota Puri arrived at Dakhshineshvar, a suburban village about 6 km north of Calcutta, where a monk by the name of Gadahar had been the chief priest 1. Farquhar.J.N., Modern Religious Movements in India. Delhi, 1967
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• Mandeep S. Dhillon
  .... In addition the organization sponsored youth conferences in California, North Carolina, Michigan and Florida. ...t likely to succeed. In 1987, Mandeep was one of 2 senators selected from North Carolina to represent the state in the American Legion Boys Nation program,
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• Raja Suraj Mal
  ...of Bharatpur in Rajasthan in India. He is known as "Plato" of Jat caste in India. He was born in the month of February 1707. He was one of the eighteen livi ...promise with the Bharatpur ruler. Of the two gates in the fort, one in the north is known as Ashtdhaatu (eight metalled) gate while the one facing the south
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• Patna
  ...d medical centre. Sadly, because of the neglect by the Union government of India and the apathy of the state government, the educational institutions, some ...s by rivers—the Ganga, Sone and Poonpun (also spelled Punpun). Just to the north of Patna across the river Ganga flows the river Gandak making Patna a uniqu
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• The Labels That Define Us
  ...e of the Indus valley came to be known as Hindus, while the country became India. The celebrated scholar of the history of religion, W. Cantwell Smith, sug ...olar, Kapur Singh, reasons similarly. In his opinion, all people of north India, whether Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians or Muslims, etc., are Hindu, but not
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• When Romans met the Sikhs
  “Pakistan can never defeat India”, the Italian remarked. “Pakistan can never defeat India”, he suddenly remarked.
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• Gurdwara Nanakmata
  ...tarakhand}} [[India|northern India]]. Uttarakhand borders [[Tibet]] to the north, [[Nepal]] to the east, and the states of [[Himachal Pradesh]] and [[Uttar ...of Khatima Railway Station on the Pilibhit-Tanakpur metre-gauge section of North-Eastern Railway. The holy shrine is near the town of {{wiki|Sitarganj}}.
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• July 15
  ...hala State, composed of two enclaves in the Jullunder district, was in the north of East Punjab. The outlaying districts of Narnual, Dadri, and Badwal, whic ...r of a separate Union of all the Punjab States. Further, the government of India felt special responsibility to ensure that these States, particularly as th
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• The Udasis of Guru Nanak
  ...with his companion [[Bhai Mardana]]. He travelled in all four directions - North, East, West and South. The founder [[Sikh Guru]] is believed to have travel ...are called Udasis. In his first Udasi (travel), Guru Nanak covered east of India and returned home after spending about 6 years. He started from Sultanpur i
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• Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib
  ...bg.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib, Chamkaur Sahib, Punjab, India*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23312429 pNoramio photo link showing locati ...Sahib still in use. The [[Guru ka Langar]], community kitchen, is further north from Baoli Sahib and Akal Buriga. The Gurdwara also houses the offices of t
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• Sukhwinder Singh
  "It's a very big loss to everyone both here and in India." ...[[Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Barking, Essex|Singh Sabha London East Gurdwara in North Street, Barking]], every evening after work.
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• Zafarnamah Muin ul Mulk
  ...nt of [[Ahmad Shah Durrani|Ahmad Shah Durrani's]] first two invasions of [[India]]. Copies of the manuscript are available at the University of the Panjab ( When Ahmad Shah Durrani invaded India for the first time at the head of fifty thousand horsemen, early in January
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• Aashish Khan
  ...a living legend in Sarode and is considered a 'national treasure' of both India and the USA. His aunt Annapurna Devi is a legendary Surbahar maestro and fo ...Zubeida Begum was Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's first wife. He was initiated into North Indian classical music at the age of five by his grandfather. His taalim (t
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• SAS Nagar
  ...''Mohali''' is a suburb of [[Chandigarh]], 18th District in [[Punjab]], [[India]]. It is officially named after the eldest son of [[Guru Gobind Singh]], [ ...Chandigarh UT to Punjab) - for accommodating the delegates of the 1975 All India Congress Session held at Chandigarh. Today, Mohali and Chandigarh are conti
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• Sikh Regiment
  ..., 30 km from the Ranchi, which is the capital of the state of Jharkhand in India. The Centre was earlier located in Meerut in the state of Uttar Pradesh. ...arious actions and operations both in the pre and post-independence era in India and abroad, including the First and the Second World War.
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• Old News 4
  ...was fought during the Tirah campaign in the north-west frontier of British India.}} ...Granth Jagriti Yatra" attracts a sea of devotees|Yatra-225x300.jpg|The all India journey to celebrating and commemorating the 300 years (tercentenary) of th
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• Thanesar
  ...6050'E) is an ancient pilgrim centre of the Hindus. Devotees from all over India have since time immemorial been forgathering here for a dip in the holy lak GURDWARA NAVIN PATSHAHi''', north of the old town of Thanesar is dedicated to Guru Tegh Bahadur who arrived h
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• Subedar Joginder Singh
  ...anua"/> [[Sikh]] , born in [[Faridkot, India|Faridkot]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] was a [[Subedar]] in the [[Indian Army]] who distinguished himsel ...Subedar Joginder Singh commanded a platoon in the Tawang sector of NEFA ([[North East Frontier Agency]]). While holding a defensive position on a ridge in [
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• Muhammad
  ...ia, first for its riches and slaves, eventually to conquer all of northern India and under Aurangzeb attempted to take the south as well. ...and the Marathas that eventually ended the tyranny of [[Mughal]] rule in India. The Sikhs also would defeat the Afganis adding the Kingdoms of Jammu and
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• Old News 6
  ...ing Wheel Festival|Image:SpinningWheelFestival.JPG|[[Sikh]]s from all over North America and the U.K. came together on Nov. 14 at the Writer’s Guild Thea ...sml.jpg|Singh's beard was measured at over two metres in length. Move over India! - Surrey, B.C. - is now the home to the world's longest beard. The whisker
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• Gurdwara Sheetal Kund
  ...stayed at Rajgir, the old Rajgraha, said to be one of the oldest cities of India and had been the capital of Jarasandh. It is considered sacred because it h ...in respect to climate, economy and culture. It is bounded by Nepal in the north and by Jharkhand in the south. The Bihar plain is divided into two unequal
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• Two kidnapped Sikhs rescued in Khyber
  Three militants were also killed in a shootout with security forces near the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, while the bodies of five militants * [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Beheaded-my-brother-became-a-Sikh-martyr/articleshow/5605015.cms 'Beheaded,
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• Sikh/Maratha Relations
  ...m caused by the fall of the Mughal empire, expanded their influence as far north as Delhi. By this time, when the Marathas had reached the zenith of their p ...d Multan returned to Delhi. In November 1759, Ahmad Shah Durrani, invading India for the fifth time, wiped out the Maratha forces in the Punjab. He inflicte
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• July 19
  ==> ABICHAL NAGAR - situated near Nandedh city in South India, on the banks of river Godawari, is the famous place where Guru Gobind Sing ...h is near Hira Ghat. Matta Ji accompanied Guru Gobind Singh Sahib to South India. During her trip she resided at this location for some time. However, she l
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• Gurdwara Rawalsar Sahib
  ...independent Sikh thought and to even rewrite Sikh history. Today, many in India would like to believe that no one spoke of independence until the aimless a ...out 15 miles from the town of Mandi in Himachal Pardesh. It is not too far north from Anandpur Sahib. That was two years after Vaisakhi 1699, when the Khals
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• Old News 5
  ...|To promote Sikh history and culture, the first-ever Sikh film festival in India will be organised at Amritsar in the beginning of next year, that is 2009, ...nes. As far as anybody knows, she is the only female Sikh airline pilot in North America, and possibly anywhere.}}
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• Rawalpindi
  ...l. Rawalpindi is located in the Punjab province, 275 km (171 miles) to the north-west of Lahore. It is the administrative seat of the Rawalpindi District. T ...and and Rawalpindi became the largest British military garrison in British India.
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• Teja Singh Swatantar
  ...w where he joined the university. In December 1934, Teja Singh returned to India and became a prominent leader of the Kird group of the Communist Party. Dis
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• Gurdwara Saragarhi
  ...rld situation. The Battle of Saragarhi was fought on the undivided India's North West Frontier with the modern day Afghanistan. Viscount Slim, who was born in Queta and spent over 20 years living in India said: "You are never disappointed when you are with Sikhs". While at school
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• Chashma Shahi
  ...were followed by [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] of [[Punjab]] who reigned north India in early 19th century. He was also fond of Mughal gardens, Chashma Shahi wa
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• The Sepoy Mutiny - 1857
  ...itish women, children who were murdered by these mutineers, all over North India. The British reprisals were even more brutal and even included massive dest ...the Punjab was quite different from the one that prevailed in the rest of India. Perhaps the main reason that the Panjab remained peaceful was that the Sik
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• Naushehra Pannuan
  ...ear. A large number of people from the Naushehra have emigrated outside of India. Emigration started in the early 20th century with a number of people from ...h. The ruins of his tomb and the adjoining mosque can still be seen in the north eastern section of the village in Desuwal Patti. According to a local legen
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• Ramgrahia (Caste)
  |populated_states=[[Punjab (India)]] ...mgarhia Caste are a Punjabi community in the Punjab region of northwestern India. They are named after Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who was the leader of the Ramga
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• Sufism
  ...Ali, through the martyr Hassan, according to the genealogies preserved in India, and while it appears certain, on the one hand, that the order is, historic But, according to Ibbetson, most of the Sunni divines of the North-West frontier are Qadiri, and the Akhu'nd of Swat belongs to the order. The
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• Sikh Confederacy
  ...such a powerful military force never conquered and governed large parts of India outside Punjab. Constant warfare between the later barons meant time, energ According to James Browne, a contemporary East India Company employee, the barons collected a very moderate rent, and that mostl
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• Sikh community at Woolgoolga
  While some of them did return to India, the majority developed a love and attachment to their new home and its peo ...community of Punjab and settled in Northern Rivers of New South Wales and North Queensland, where they led austere and frugal lives and faced many hardship
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• Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh
  ...Officer with 'A' Flight at Drigh Road, Karachi first saw operations on the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). When India became a Republic in 1950, Arjan Singh was commanding the Operational Group
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• HMS Punjabi
  ...hese were the Punjabi people, the inhabitants of the Punjab region between India and Pakistan. ...bmarine patrols and convoy defence in the North Western Approaches and the North Sea. In October, she made an unsuccessful attempt to salvage a crashed Germ
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• Nadir Shah
  ...es from the Indus River in India (now Pakistan) to the Caucasus Mountains (north). He gained prominence as a military leader during the Afghan occupation of ...1738 he had conquered half of Afghanistan, and in 1739 he invaded northern India, capturing Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire; he soon extended his ru
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• Nirmal Singh
  .... In 1946, he joined F.C. College, Lahore. However due to the Partition of India & Pakistan in 1947, like many Sikhs, Nirmal had to move to Delhi. In Delhi ...nt from the Department of Defense and join Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. He was Professor, Chair - Operations Management and Dean for al
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• Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib
  During his [[second Udasi]] (second missionary tour) of South India, [[Guru Nanak]] after sojourning through Nagpur and Khandwa visited the anc ...ead throughout Bidar and its surrounding areas about the holy Saint of the North and large number of people started coming to him to have his "Darshan" and
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• Saaj
  ...Instruments. Right from the Vedic times, musical instruments were used in India. Ancient sculptures and temples show different kinds of drums, whistles, fl ...t mainly they belong to two categories: north Indian and south Indian. The north Indian veena is called vachitra veena and has no frets. The south Indian ve
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• Potohar
  Bounded on the east by the Jhelum River, on the west by the Indus, on the north by the Kala Chitta Range and the Margalla Hills, and on the south by the Sa ...n the site of holy pilgrimage. Even nowadays, through an agreement between India and Pakistan, Hindu worshippers perform a pilgrimage to the temple every ye
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• Mahant Tirath Singh Ji
  ...aheguru]] and were truthful. That is why everyone who came to know him, in India or abroad, in the [[United Kingdom]] or the [[United States]] or elsewhere, ...February 12, 1925 in the village Jandan Wala, in district Mianwali, in the North Western part of the [[Punjab]] province, now in [[Pakistan]]. He was born t
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• Bhagat Dhanna
  | '''Birth :''' || Dhuan Kalan, Distt. Tonk, Rajasthan India ...city, in the {{w|Tonk district}}, [[Rajasthan]], present day North West [[India]]. His [[Bani]] is included in the [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]] Ji.
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• Sikhs in Brampton, Canada
  Subsequent waves of Sikh immigrants left India in the 1980s because of the simmering religious and political climate. A st ...ind someone from your village or your town, even if you have never met [in India], it's the familiarity, it's the comfort," said Mr. Mangat, 51, who is pres
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• Iftikhar Khan
  ...be assimilated with the rest of the Muslim India across the Attock river, North Western province, Afghanistan and Persia." ...ayag, Hardwar etc., to Islam the conversion of the rest of the people of India would be a trivial task.
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• Banda Singh Bahadur's kingdom (First Sikh Kingdom)
  ...asked the Guru for Sikh assistance in winning out in his bid to rule over India, following the death of his father, Emperor Aurangzeb. Guru Gobind had rend ...to escort Mata Sahib Kaur to Delhi. From Kharkhauda about fifty kilometres north-west of Delhi, Mata Sahib Kaur was sent to Delhi under armed escort, to joi
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• Sant Rajinder Singh
  ...Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania, and all over India.
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• Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh
  ...resent was Princess Sophia, Princess Bamba was absent; she was stranded in India because of the War.
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• Mahton
  Mahton is a caste in India. According to W. H. McLeod, they are small in number and found mostly in th ...r Creators Guru Nanak Dev University, Sociology Dept., Published Amritsar, India : Sociology Dept., Guru Nanak Dev University, 1980-
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• Afghan - Sikh Relation(1748 - 1849)
  ...a minor engagement fought on 11 January 1748 during his first invasion of India, Ahmad Shah advanced towards [[Sirhind]] to meet a [[Mughal]] army which h ...heir general Jahan Khan wounded. The Maratha's dream of supremacy in north India was shattered in the third battle ofPanipat (14 January 1761). The Sikhs on
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• Sant Atar Singh (Mastuana)
  ...ar, Mīrpur and other towns which had Sikh populations. At Peshĝwar, in the North-West Frontier Province, he was received with honour not only by the Hindus ...eport prepared in 1911 by the intelligence department of the Government of India, Sant Atar Siṅgh was described as the inspiration behind the [[Tatt Khals
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• Remembering the battle of Gallipoli
  ...f his expeditionary force. Sir Hamilton wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India. ...his battle was L/Nk Bhola Singh. When Lt. Gen. Sir Reginald Savory came to India in 1968 to attend the presentation of colours ceremony at Meerut, L/Nk Bhol
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• Journey of Guru Tegh Bahadur
  ==North East== ...i, which had also been visited by Guru Nanak during his travels in eastern India. Guru Tegh Bahadur marked out the spot where the First Guru had sat. People
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• Shoorsaini
  ...eview of Historical Studies, By Institute of Historical Studies (Calcutta, India),Published by Institute of Historical, Studies., 1983, Item notes: v.22, Or <ref> The Ancient Geography of India, pp 374 , By Alexander Cunningham, Published by Trübner and co., 1871, Ite
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• Sikhism in Pakistan
  ==Before the Partition of India and Pakistan== ...ition of India, which carved the new State of East Pakistan out of British India, Sikhs had long played an important role in village life across the undivi
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• The Indian Ghadar Movement South East Asian, Japanese and Canadian Connection
  ...The Indian people and the Indian subjects, who shared the view of freeing India by revolutionary means, have received less attention. ...d and renewed their revolutionary work from their new basis, especially in North America and Europe.
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• Battle of Naushera
  ...n bent on world domination through force. [[Alexander the Great]] attacked India in about 400 B.C. He came to rule the world but after declaring himself a G ...unjab and Northeast of India. Rohillas of Awadh (UP), Tipu Sultan of South India, Nawab of Malerkotla, Multan, Kashmir all were Afghanis. These Afghanis wer
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• Wadda Ghalughara
  ...century, the Khalsa was outlawed by many of the Muslim rulers of northern India and the Panjab and often was forced to survive by seeking the safety of re ...reign of terror visited upon the Hindus long before Babar's invitation to India. Their contributions to their places of worship, often in the form of gold,
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• Guru Nanak: Bridge across all faiths
  During his four lengthy journeys to the east, south, north and west, he opened a dialogue with all the existing faiths, not in today� ...Multan and shrine sites along the west coast of India. He travelled beyond India in the west to Mecca, Medina and Baghdad. There are accounts of still farth
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• Religious labels
  ...e of the Indus valley came to be known as Hindus, while the country became India. The celebrated scholar of the history of religion, W. Cantwell Smith, sugg ...holar, Kapur Singh, reasons similarly. In his opinion, all people of north India, whether Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians or Muslims etc., are Hindu, but not b
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• Gurdwara Nanakshashi, Sylhet, Bangladesh
  ...Guru Nanak came to Dhaka by boat, which anchored at Shivpur village in the north of Dhaka. Later it took the name of Rayer Bazar, Dhanmandi and turned Dhanm During the Baishakhi and Guru Nanak birth anniversary, Sikh Jathas from India visited Guru Nanakshashi and stayed here. Even the foreign Sikh nationals w
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• Battle Of Kargil
  ...sen again. This time to acknowledge the triumph of the Sikhs at Helmet and India Gate ( Tiger Hill features) in the Kargil sector. ...war cries of Bole so Nihal to capture Rohino Horn, Rocky Knob, Helmet and India Gate. These positions had been heavily fortified and were dominated by the
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• Sikhism in Australia
  ...he rush for gold on the Victorian fields while numbers of [[Muslims]] from North Western Punjab region worked as camel drivers in the Central Australian des As India and Australia were both British colonies, the citizens of these countries w
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• Dr Manmohan Singh
  [[Image:Dr Manmohan Singh PM.jpg|thumb|Dr. Manmohan Singh, India's fourteenth Prime Minister |right]] ...er]] [[1932]]) is the 14th and current Prime Minister of the [[Republic of India]]. He is the first Indian Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return t
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• Dr. Gurinder Singh Mann
  ...es at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, India, in 1975. He earned a second master's degree in English from the University *''Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America'' (edited with John Stratton Hawley, State University of New York P
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• Poh
  ...ere [[Sikhi]] took birth. Many tourists from western countries visit north India during [[Poh]] as this coincides with the Christmas holidays when people in
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• Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  ...l Indian political scene. He played a major part in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and was the General Secretary of the party from 1992 to ...he vote of confidence debate in the Indian parliament last month on the US-India nuclear deal, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, thanked Surjeet for his s
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• Waqia - e - Jung - e - sikhan
  ...Pherushahr, the writer records that on receipt of news of the British East India Company strengthening the frontier with additional troops, the Sikh soldier The British met the Sikh advance a few kilometres north of Mudki. "The Sikhs opened fire first and the British guns replied. Some r
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• Shiv Sena
  to the East, to the West, to the North and to the South. Everywhere. The head office of the Board of Cricket Control in India is on the first floor of Stadium House (Brabourne Stadium) situated oa busy
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• Historical Gurdwaras
  ==India== #[[Gurdwara Angitha Sahib(Guru Angad Dev), Khadur Sahib,Distt Amritsar, India]]
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• Ramgarhia
  The Ramgarhia community is a tribe of the Punjab region in India which started from the Ramgarhia Misl (army). The founder & leader of the ...He died fighting for his master in 1739 at Lahore, when Nadir Shah invaded India and the Governor resisted him ineffectually. Bhagwan Singh's eldest son Jas
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• Treaty Of Bhyrowal
  Signed on 16 December 1846 between the East India Company and the minor Maharaja Duleep Singh, provided for a British-control ...airs of the State in accordance with the instructions of the Government of India. This is how the new arrangement was described by John Marshman: An officer
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• Mumbai Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda clash
  ...ccused of multiple murders and rapes, was visiting a shopping mall in this north-eastern suburb of Bombay when several Sikh youths protested his presence. I ...bay airport was too dangerous, Ram Rahim‘s 50 vehicle entourage then drove north onto the Pune-Bombay Expressway. As news spread of Ram Rahim’s location,
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• Haridwar
  ...pal board in the Haridwar District in the state of Uttaranchal in northern India. Literally meaning Gateway to God, Haridwar is considered one of the seven ...ar of Shabir Shahib in Roorkee is a living example of religious harmony in India which is visited by the people of all religious sects from all over the wor
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• Anarkali Kaur
  ...so, a sizeable chunk of the community has fled Afghanistan to reside in [[India]], [[Europe]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. A large number of them have been ...ugh. A large number of Afghani Sikhs live as stateless persons in India as India continues to grant them stay on a year to year basis, without confirming th
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• Gurdwara Nanak Piao
  ...a Nanak Piao''' is a historic [[Gurdwara]] located in north [[Delhi]] in [[India]]. This Gurdwara sahib is dedicated to the first Sikh Guru, [[Guru Nanak|Sr ...wara+002.jpg|thumb|250px|left|This is the Side View of the Gurdwara (from North East Side).]]
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• Gurmat sangeet project
  ...Toronto, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Stockton and many other venues all over North America. Mehr is also a member of the Gurmat Sangeet Project faculty and de ...Toronto, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Stockton and many other venues all over North America. Amrit is also a member of the Gurmat Sangeet Project faculty and d
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• Maghar
  ...easant in [[Punjab]] where [[Sikhi]] took birth. Many tourists visit north India during Maghar and [[Poh]] which start on December 14.
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• Old News 11
  ...ant-THUMB.jpg|It was standing room only on Nov. 13 last year at the Top of India Restaurant in Spokane Valley. This year, diners will be treated to a free m ...humb/news/image/main/qatar-thumb.jpg|Carrier introduces 9th destination in India ahead of festive season. Four flights a week Non-Stop from Doha. Only full
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• Mehar Singh
  ...ted to the sole Squadron in the Air Force. No.1 Squadron then based in the North West Frontier. He went into action immediately against the Frontier Tribesm ...time of independence,was incharge command and control of air operations in India. Mehar Singh led from the front. he flew many of the pioneering and dauntin
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• The Sikh Self-Definition and Bhagat Bani
  #Guru Nanak may have written his Shabad while travelling in India or possibly abroad (pg.3). ...s should read everything that is written by these Eurocentric scholars. In North America there are five places (U.B.C., U of Toronto, University of Calgary,
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• Gurdwara Bir Baba Budda Sahib
  ...itsar road near village Jhabal Kalan in district [[Amritsar]] [[Punjab]] [[India]]. Baba Buddha ji spent much of his life here. [[Guru Arjan Dev]] also visi The 70 metre square [[Sarovar]] is to the north of this hall. A spacious divan hall was added in 1975. [[Guru ka Langar]] w
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• Phagun
  ...uplifting of winter cold. Many tourists from western countries visit north India during [[Phagun]] and [[Chet]] to join in the festivites of the [[Nanakshah
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• News about Gurdwara in Baghdad
  ...utside the city of the west of Dajala (Tigris) River, about two kilometers north of Baghdad West railway station. Written by DNA India
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• Babar's Invasion
  ..., was a Muslim Emperor from Central Asia who founded the Mughal dynasty of India. ...517 and again in 1519, he swept down the Afghan plateau into the plains of India. He entered the Punjab in 1523 on the invitation of Daulat Khan Lodhi, the
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• July 14
  1948 Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel, eliminated the Sikh rulers and established the Patiala and East Pun ...hala State, composed of two enclaves in the Jullunder district, was in the north of East Punjab. The outlaying districts of Narnual, Dadri, and Badwal, whic
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• General Harbakhsh Singh
  ...The Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders, wherein he saw active service on the north-west frontier. He commanded a company of 5 Sikh in 1942 in Malaya against t India became independent on August 15, 1947, and Pakistani-backed regulars, irreg
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• 2008 Sikh Arts and Spinning Wheel Festival
  Sikhs from all over North America and the U.K. came together on Nov. 14 at the Writer’s Guild Thea ...Award. Among the Filmmakers awarded were Jaswinder Singh, Future Computing India/ Sikhpoint, Raj Singh for Pantee 35, Amrit and Rabindra Singh for The Makin
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• Ramdasia Sikhs
  ...a [[Sikh]] [[Hindu]] sub-group that originated from the [[Caste system in India|caste]] of leather tanners and shoemakers known as [[Chamar]].<ref name="Ra ...ook-into-sikhs-caste-identity/articleshow/86607310.cms|work=[[The Times of India]]|accessdate=11 October 2021}}</ref>
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• Guru Gobind Singh's wife or wives - The encyclopedia of Sikhism
  ...ments at 8 to 12 years of age are not uncommon in some interior parts of [[India]]. Now the wedding is performed years later when the engaged couple has rea ...row to love and respect each other over a lifetime is still more common in India than the so called love match more common in the West.
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• Nirankari
  The Nirankaris (those who believe in the Formless One), originated in the north west region of Panjab during the latter years of the reign of [[Maharaja Ra ...01 Hindus and 46,610 Sikhs returned themselves as 'Nirankaris'. (Census of India, 1891, Vol.XX, and vol.XXI, The Punjab and its Feudatories, by E.D. Maclaga
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• Gurdwara Nadha Sahib Patshahi Dasvee
  ...is situated in Panchkula, (just outside [[Chandigarh]]) in [[Haryana]], [[India]]. It is situated at the end of a narrow spur of soft sandy rocks of the Si ...415/cth1.htm#6 Tribune News Service on Sunday, April 15, 2007, Chandigarh, India]''
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• Old News 14
  ...Abbottsford, British Columbia is the oldest standing Sikh Temple in all of North America, and a host of celebrations are being planned to celebrate its 100t ...oung men from the forgotten Sikh tribe Sikligar’s who live in the south of India have hit the headlines. Nadeem Inamdar describes}}
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• Lohri
  ...ng culmination of the chilly winter. A time when the sun heads back to the North and stays longer each day warming the ground for the new crops soon to be s ...over the [[Panjab]], [[Jammu]], [[Kashmir]], [[Delhi]] and even in much of India.
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• Sikh Ramgarhia
  |populated_states=[[Punjab (India)]] ...mgarhia Caste are a Punjabi community in the Punjab region of northwestern India. They are named after Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who was the leader of the Ramga
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• Sardar Ajit Singh
  ...Singh''' Sindhu (1881-1947) was born in a military family from Punjab in India. His Grandfather was [[Sardar Fateh Singh]] Sinhu and his elder brother was ...re aimed at raising an [[Azad Hind Fauj]] to fight against the British in India.
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• Sikh history
  Sikhism is a distinct religion that originated in India in 1469 with the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The Khalsa was created by Guru ...nd changed his name to Banda Singh. Guru Ji sent him to Punjab in northern India, along with 5 Sikhs to fight the tyrants. He came to Punjab, collected an a
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• I missed the Lockerbie flight by minutes
  ...errorists had been suspected of blowing up an Air India jumbo jet over the North Atlantic, killing all 329 on board. To make matters worse, this [[Sikh]] ha
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• Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
  ...s. In 1983-84, when she was studying ancient Buddhism, upheaval amongst India’s Sikhs was in the news daily. This was a feature of the field environme After marrying Khalid Mahmood, whom she had met during her field research in India, Cynthia took a job teaching anthropology at a small liberal arts college i
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• Mystery Deepens
  ...eedom fighters and to implicate Pakistan in it", during Clinton’s visit to India. He also adds, "We are naturally worried as to why the U.S. State Deptt. ap ...ery unusual. After all, whether in Kashmir, or in Punjab, or in the bloody north-east, thousands have been killed in encounters; so why could it not happen
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• Babar
  ...gol, Turkic, Persian, and Afghan invaders of south-west Asia who invaded [[India]] in the early 16th century. ...Lame, from which the Western name Tamerlane is derived), who had invaded [[India]] and plundered [[Delhi]] in 1398 and then ruled over a short-lived empire
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• Bhera
  ...e 14 years that they spent in exile. Further north, about another 40 miles north, is Taxila the greatest Buddhist university city ...' (mint) during the reign of Ranjit Singh [1780-1839]. Twenty miles to its north west lies Chillianwala. Here the last big battle was fought where the Sikhs
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• Mughal
  ...ately prior to which it existed only at the sufferance of the British East India Company. ...e Lame, from which the Western name Tamerlane is derived), who had invaded India and plundered Delhi in 1398 and then led a short-lived empire based in Sama
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• SETHI
  Sethi,(ਸੇਠੀ) is a surname that is found among the Punjabi Khatris of India .Sethis are of Khukhrain sub-caste among the Khatris, a regional sub caste ...ethi's or Sethi family are also living in Peshawar, a capital city of NWFP(North West Frontier) province of Pakistan. There is a famous area (colony) called
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• Sikhism in India
  ...y located in [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]], as well as, in many other parts of India and the world. ...Even so, the Sikhs, because of their unique appearance sometimes stand for India. Traditionally the men keep their hair and do not shave their beard or mous
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• Delhi
  ...and Kurukshetra many decisive battles have been fought for the control of India. Including the Epic battle depicted in the ''Bagavad Gita''. ...am, as part of his to banish Hinduism (and all religions, save Islam) from India. (To read more on the the Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur [[Martyrdom of Gu
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• Intro to Sikhi
  .... Almost 18 million Sikhs live in the [[Punjab]] district in what is now [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].
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• Second Udasi
  ...si.jpg|thumb|250px|Guru Nanak Dev Ji accompanied by Mardana Ji in Northern India|right]] ...wever, sat out to reform the way that religion had long been practised in India. His teachings were aimed at setting the world on a new path, pointing out
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• VHP
  ...y force throughout not just India, but the world. Its primary functions in India are to mobilize forces for agitational and violent purposes. It took part i ...imary mode of channeling dollars and pounds into Hindutva politics back in India.
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• Jangnama
  ...tness account in Persian verse of Ahmad Shah Durrani's seventh invasion of India, 1764-65, for which it is the only major source of information. A copy of t ...Khan, who at the head of 12,000 Baluchls, met the Shah at Eminabad, 50 km north of Lahore. The combined force of 30,000, did not meet any opposition befor
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• Hoshiarpur
  ...trict is sub mountainous and stretches the length of [[River Beas]] in the north-west. It lies between north latitude 30 degree-9 and 32 degree-05 and east longitude 75degree -32 and 7
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• Sikhi and Pseudo-Sikh Researchers
  ...h who came to Canada as granthi and Dr. McLeod who went to Kharar, Punjab, India, as a missionary, are cases in point. McLeod used the missionary money of New Zealand to stay in India. He came to India with the motivation of producing from the poverty-stricken untouchables of
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• Ragi Bhai Daya Singh ji
  ...ic of his ancestral Punjab (frontier province on the border of present day India and Pakistan, south of Afghanistan) into the world music stage reaching out The basis of the music is Sikh (spiritual), Punjabi and North Indian (in that order). This, being Dya Singh's narrower background. It the
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• Tarkhan
  ...tribe that inhabits the [[Punjab]], which is now divided between Northern India and northern Pakistan. Scholars such as H.A. Rose state that they are desce ...an was a very respected title in use among some of the armies that invaded India during the reign of Tamer the Lame of Central Asia, therefore it is possibl
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• Hola Mahalla
  The foothills of the Shivaliks in [[Ropar]] district of [[Punjab]]'s north-eastern region, especially around the historic townships of [[Anandpur]] Sa ...s developed in Tailand and other under-developed countries, including even India (which involves profit seeking adults enslaving the young and innocent chil
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• Sikhcess feeds the homeless
  ...Guru was born in 1469 in [[Punjab]] (in the north of the sub-continent of India) and was the first of the [[ten Gurus of the Sikhs]]. All [[Sikhs]] are enc
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• Ashtdasa Sidh
  ...lgrimage guide, containing geographical locations of pilgrimage centers in India, with related legends, parables, hymns and stories. Many untraced quotes ar ...a]] || 10,000 verses || Describes areas around [[Kurukshetra]] in [[North India]].
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• Sikhi and Dhamma
  ...s. It is a matter of no small pride that a Sikh escorted the Dalai Lama to India when he exiled Tibet. Indeed, Punjab, the Sikh homeland, was formerly calle ...may have been shaven Buddhist monks. After Buddhism rose to ascendancy in India, the brahmins (Hindu priests) worked for its elimination through massacres
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• Hari Singh Nalwa and the subjugation of north-western frontier
  ...ions along with the entire trans-Indus territories would have been lost to India forever and in that case these territories would not have been part of the ...the foreign invader. (2) Nadir Shah established a very strong force on the north-western frontier. The Afghans continued the work that Nadir Shah had begun
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• Khatri
  The '''Khatris''' (Punjabi) or '''Kshatriyas''' (Sanskrit, (K) silent) are a north Indian community that originated in the Potwar Plateau of Punjab. This regi ...of the British imposed dividing line. Today Khatris live in all regions of India, but are concentrated in East Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Whi
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• Did Guru Arjun edit bani of Kabir and Namdev?
  ...war) and other saints and devotees from Maharashtra, he travelled to North India. In [[Delhi]], he was imprisoned and persecuted by Sultan Mohammad Tughlaq. ...language of Central India, as it had only penetrated in [[Punjab]] in the North till then. In Punjab there are several [[Gurdwara]]s built in memory of his
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• Hari Singh Nalwa
  Hari Singh Nalwa was the Commander-in-chief at the most turbulent North West Frontier of Ranjit Singh's kingdom. He took the frontier of the Sarkar ...gh Nalwa's performance as an administrator and a military commander in the North West Frontier remains unmatched. Two centuries on, Britain, Pakistan, Russi
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• Namdhari Movement
  ...vement known as the Namdhari, or Kuka, movement also had its origin in the north-west corner of the Sikh kingdom, away from the places of royal pomp and gra .... They continued to hope that he would one day come to the Punjab and free India from the shackles of the English.
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• Machhiwara
  ...from Chamkaur Sahib, 25 KM from Rahon. The river [[Satluj]] is towards its north and [[Sirhind]] Canal is towards its west. As of 2001 India census,GRIndia Machhiwara had a population of 18,363. Males constitute 53%
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• Chamkaur Sahib
  ...house, with a high compound wall around it and only one entrance from the north, which was used by Guru Gobind Singh as a temporary citadel in the unequal ...Madan Singh and Kotha Singh, were posted at the only entrance which faced north. Guru Gobind Singh, with his sons [[Ajit Singh]] and [[Jujhar Singh]] and o
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• Kartarpur (Jalandhar)
  ...in [[Punjab]], [[India]] famous for its furniture industry. It lies 15 km north-west of [[Jallandar]] along Sher Shah Sun Marg in the [[Punjab]]. The town ...end of a rectangular hall on the ground floor. A separate building to the north of the hall houses a library.
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• Last of the second world war Sikh RAF fighter pilots
  Sq Ldr Pujji, who learned to fly as a hobby in India, sailed to England after reading an advert in a newspaper. He warned his fa ...guished Flying Cross. After the war he became a champion air race pilot in India, and set endurance records in gliders. He even flew the first Indian prime
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• Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon
  ...forces have participated in various campaigns all around India and world. India fought three wars with [[Pakistan]] in 1948, 1965 and in 1971 and one war w In December 1971, Pakistan attacked 14 air fields all across North India to pre-empt the Indian Air Force. At this time Nirmaljit Singh was posted a
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• Sansi Rajput
  ...s and now living in Rājasthān state as well as scattered throughout all of India.[History of the Jatt Clans - H.S Duleh "(Translation from original Punjabi Many of these Bhati Rajputs moved north into Punjab and the Sikh ruling houses of [[Jind]], Faridkot and Patiala as
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• Bhakti Movement and Sikhism
  ...Gurbani at a Gurdwara are all derived from the Bhakti movement of medieval India (800-1700). "The word bhakti is derived from Bhakta meaning to serve, honou ...bi nationalism as well as brought peace among Hindus and Muslims. " In the north the cult was essentially Vaisnava-based, but instead of being focussed on V
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• Killing of Komagata Maru passengers
  ...son to enter British Columbia and had to have come via direct passage from India. These were very unreasonable laws as the average Indian only earned about ...and explained to the passengers the attitude of the British Government of India, Britain, and Canada towards their mission. Gyani Bhagwan Singh, who was fo
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• Guru Nanak's philosophy
  ...mplishments are compared with western science and the spread of Islam into India. ...e [[Sikh religion]], was doing the same, and more, in the sub continent of India. On the science front, Nanak told us the distance to the moon, which is exa
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• International Turban Day
  ...ound the head or sometimes an inner "hat" or [[patka]]. Traditionally in [[India]], the turban was only worn by men of high status in society; men of low st ...celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 (today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada), whi
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• Gurdwaras in USA
  [[Sikh Council of North America]] 2252 Julie Way, Live Oak, California 95953 [[The Sikh Temple Los Angeles]] 1966 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027 Phone: 1-(323) 665-7707
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• Shaheedan De Sirtaj, plus a history with comments on Sikhi
  ...ability of any region in their fight against the fanatic zealots who ruled India at the time. ...outskirts of Delhi in the East, to Jammu and Kashmir and Tibet in the far North and to Sind in the South. An Empire where all religions were equally assist
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• Sikligar Sikhs
  * Country : India * Region : South & Central India
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• History, Science and Sikhism
  The impact of [[Islam]] in [[India|North Western India]] in the 11th century had been through military conquest and sword . The [[
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• Chhina
  ...dhar Bindu]], p.38, sn-760.</ref> is a gotra of Jats dwelling in Punjab , India and Pakistan . Hiuen-Tsang mentions a kingdom of Chinabhukti in eastern Pun [[B S Dahiya]]<ref>[[Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/Jat Clan in India]],p. 249</ref> writes that Hiuen-Tsang mentions a kingdom of Chinabhukti in
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• Sikhs sentenced to death in UAE
  ...ppealed to the Indian Government to step in and repatriate the men back to India. ...nsure these young boys are freed and sent back to their loving families in India.
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• STRATEGY AND WAR TACTICS OF THE SIKHS
  ...the Scythians, the Huns, the Gurjars and various other tribes who invaded India between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500. ...more notorious among them were Mahmud Gazni and Mohammed Ghori who invaded India in the eleventh century, and Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali who came in t
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• Heer Ranjha
  ...ict, [[Punjab]], India; which since the farengis (the British) partitioned India (dividing the former kingdom of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]) has been part of
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• Jalandhar
  '''Jalandhar''' ([[Punjabi]]: ਜਲੰਧਰ) is a district in the [[India]]n state of [[Punjab]] and also the name of an ancient capital city in this ...Jalandhar occurs in the region of Kanishka, the Kushan King of northern [[India]] in whose time a council of Buddhists theologians was held near Jalandhar
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• Malva Region
  ...a is in the shape of a rough parallelogram lying between 29°-30 and 31°-10 north latitudes and 73°-50 and 76°-50' east longitudes. ...independently. By 1835, 95% of the Malva land, had come under British East India Company. except for the largest Sikh Kingdom that still ruled 90% of Punjab
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• Gurdwaras in East Africa
  ...g of the railways in about 1890. The pioneers who were brought over from [[India]] to build the old Uganda Railways were skilled workmen - carpenters, black ...r of policemen, ranging from inspectors to constables, were also sent from India to become the vital instrument of maintaining law and order. They remained
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• Kohinoor
  ...ish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli proclaimed Queen Victoria "Empress of India" in 1877. ...the diamond are unclear. Many early stories of great diamonds in southern India exist, but it is hard to establish which one was the Koh-i-noor, if any.
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• Kartar Singh Thakral
  ...old to Indian tourists from its retail outlet at the corner of Singapore's North Bridge Road and High Street. Few took of Thakral was busy establishing its Analysis who follow Thakral say it expanded from North Bridge Road to China largely on the strength of Kartar's flair for penetrat
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• Countdown to 300 years
  ...Sachkhand Shri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib]] in [[Nanded]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. The historic town of Nanded is an important place in [[Sikhi]] because i ...the history of Sikhs by shaking the foundation of the Mughal Empire in the North-west and paved the way for the liberation of the Punjab in 1764-65.
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala
  ...e town of Attari (Few kms from the border of Indian and Pakistan punjab in India) . As a child he was educated in Gurmukhi and Persian. When Ranjit singh be ...e month of April. It was a gala event attended by almost all the rulers of India, as well as those of Kabul, Iran, etc. The two days of festivity and and me
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• Seva in Sikhism
  ...ontributions to run those camps were voluntary, as [[Sikh]]s from all over India came forward to foot the bill to run those camps. On such occasions, their During our travels of North America I and my wife had seen numerous examples of [[seva]]. From small th
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• Gurdas Maan
  ...was born on 4 January 1957 in Giddarbaha, Muktsar District, [[Punjab]], [[India]]. His song "Dil Da Mamala Hai" brought him national attention in India in 1980. Gurdas Maan was formally educated in Malout. After completing his
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• Mai Kishan Kaur
  She took active part in the Jaito agitation of 1922-24. The Government of India had forced Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, the ruler of Nabha state known for his ...urse suddenly and headed for Gurdwara Tibbi Sahib, half a kilometre to the north. State troops, however, barred entry even to that shrine and opened fire on
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• Sikh Ravidasia
  |populated_states=[[Punjab (India)]] ...among Jat Sikhs caused by their concerns regarding a post-war division of India was another reason to prefer recruitment of new classes. While recruitment
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• Udai Singh
  ...front of the Indian Brigade, the open ground on the Gully Spur stopped up north-eastwards towards the two lines of Turkish trenches, known as J10 and J11. ...Lieut. Cursetjee were left unwounded. Writing to the Commander-in-Chief in India a few weeks after the event, General Sir Ian Hamilton paid noble tribute to
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• Sikhs in Indian Air force
  ...st heavier-than-air flight took place on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, USA. The man was Wilbur Wright in a machine that had two wings at .... After retirement in 1956, he returned to his first passion,golf becoming India's finest player ever, even with the two German bullets still embedded in hi
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• Rajputs
  ...rds for gallantry) in the armed forces before (and after) the Partition of India in 1947. The British Government recruited them heavily into their armies. ...und spread through much the subcontinent particularly in north and central India.
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• Komagata Maru
  During the period before 1920's the whole of North America has a policy of discrimination against coloured races which was thi '''The 1900 census reported only 2050 people from [[India]] living in Canada and the USA.'''
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• Old News 12
  ...sa (Glory of the Khalsa) award from Kesh Sambhal Parchar Sanstha in Delhi, India for her life-long services to the Sikh Panth}} .../main/WSC-THUMB.jpg|More than 200 Sikhs from all over the world (including India, United States of America, Canada, Europe, and Australia) participated in t
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• Mata Sundari
  ...re a temporary encampment was raised near the village of Basantgarh, 10 km north of Anandpur, and named Guru ka Lahore where the nuptials were held on 23 Ha ...gements at 8 to 12 years of age are not uncommon in some interior parts of India. The wedding is performed a couple of years after the engagement. After the
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• Baba Puran Singh
  ...a. When travelling from the GT road (Highway NH1) at Goraya, Gurah is in a north-westerly direction from this town. The maps location can be found [http://g ...f his adult life was spent mainly in Kenya and England with many visits to India. From a very early age, Baba ji took [[Amrit]] and lived a life of a baptis
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• Puratan Janam Sakhi
  ...H.T. Colebrooke collection which had been presented to the library of East India House, probably in 1815 or 1816. It lay unrecognized in London until 1872 w ...LieutenantGovernor of the Punjab, Charles Aitchison, to have it brought to India for inspection. Aitchison agreed and, having perceived the measure of inter
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• Language and Script Guru Granth Sahib
  ...njabi. It also indicates that Old Punjabi was spoken in different parts of India far away from Punjab. The present study further reveals that Panini synthes ...ya, Chenab Darya, and Jhelum Darya. Similarly, in old days other rivers in India were also called as Darya but now are called as ‘Nadi’ or by other name
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• Pakistan - Birth and objectives
  ...nd creator of Pakistan - a state based upon the thesis that the Muslims of India required a separate nation, a homeland and state for themselves, independan ...of its character, when placed side by side with the declared character of India as a secular state, which she is also sought to be made in effect, has unne
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• Gurdwara Karamsar, Rara Sahib
  ...ted 22km south-east of [[Ludhiana]], 14km north-east of Ahmedgarh and 22km north-west of Khanna. It lies on the Chawa-Payal-Ahmedgarh road and is situated o * [http://family.webshots.com/album/561451797JhnWkX Photo Album: Paty in India, Rara Sahib/Punjab]
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• Bhai Bala Janamsakhi
  ...he first journey or udasi Guru Nanak Dev Ji left Sultanpur towards eastern India and included, in the following sequence : Panipat (Sheikh Sharaf), Delhi (S #The Second udasi was to the south of India with companion Bhai Mardana. Delhi, Ayodhya, Jagannath Puri, Rameswaram, Sr
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• Sikhi and Jain Dharam
  Jainism is the oldest living Shramana tradition in [[India]]. In its current form, the Jain tradition is traced to Vardhamana Mahavira ...s. Sikhism was established in 15th century in the state of Punjab in North India. Guru Nanak, although born into a Hindu household in 1469 in the Punjab reg
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• Harmandar sahib gurdwara complex
  ...e sacred and the most visited of the many historic Sikh shrines found in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. This striking building was built by [[Guru Arjan Dev]]
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• Languages of Punjab
  After Independence, as a result of the partition of India, most of the Muslim population from Punjab migrated to Pakistan and similar ...ligion.[4] In fact, this situation prevailed in all the provinces of North India in which the Hindu and Muslim populations were numerically balanced--albeit
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• Maharaja Gulab Singh
  ...le the state, the second-largest principality under the British Raj, until India gained its independence in 1947. ...by Ranjit Singh. Raja Jit Singh, who was expelled, found refuge in British India, and later received in appenage the estate of Akhrota. Ranjit Singh appoint
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• Lt. General Harbaksh Singh
  ...The Argyl and Sutherland Highlanders, wherein he saw active service on the north-west frontier. He commanded a company of 5 Sikh in 1942 in Malaya against t ...m stand out as one of the outstanding commanders in modern Indian history. India became independent on August 15, 1947, and Pakistani-backed regulars, irreg
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• Labana
  ...marine ships for his vast international trade business. He traveled around India, Africa, Portugal and other Europe for trade of multiple goods. Lobanas are residing in and around India from ancient times. People of Labanas were basically kashatriya Rajputs.<re
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• Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib
  '''Rakab Ganj''' Sahib is an important historic [[Gurdwara]] in [[Delhi]], [[India]]. It’s located at the exact spot where Dhan Sri [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]]'s ...ent Gurdwara is on the Pant Road in New Delhi, facing Parliament House and North Block of Central Secretariat. The modern building is composed mainly of whi
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• Gurdwaras of Pakistan
  ...The [[Punjab]] was divided only in [[1947]] when the separate nations of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] were formed. Prior to this period, the whole of the area =North West Frontier Province=
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• Gurdwara Maltekri Sahib
  ...s visit in about 1512 AD. The Shrine is located about 3 miles (5 kms) in a north east direction of the city of [[Nanded]] (appears to be the garbled name of * [http://www.historicalgurudwaras.com/India/Maharashtra/Maharashtra.php Historical Gurudwaras in Maharashtra]
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• Punjabi University
  ...Patiala, is one of the premier institutions of higher education in Punjab, India.The Punjabi University, located in the erstwhile princely city of Patiala, ...ium and a hall for indoor games. It is one of the very few institutions in India to prossess its own velodrome.
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• Mahant Kahan Singh Ji
  ...t honor, as he is considered a great soul by the entire Sikh Sant Samaj in India. He is most unassuming considering the position he has been anointed to. Ma ...ely four years old. His father brought him and the rest of their family to India and settled near Chheratha(near Amritsar). A few months later the family mo
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• Gurdwara Garhi Sahib
  {{p3|Image:Tarhisaab3.jpg|Gurdwara Garhi Sahib, Chamkaur Sahib, Punjab, India}} ...house, with a high compound wall around it and only one entrance from the north, which was used by Guru Gobind Singh Ji as a temporary citadel in the unequ
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• Guru Gobind Singh's marriage
  ...ments at 8 to 12 years of age are not uncommon in some interior parts of [[India]]. The wedding is performed a couple of years after the engagement. After t ...stead of the Guru going to Lahore. A scenic place a couple of miles to the north of Anandpur was developed into a nice camp for the marriage. This place was
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• Singh Sabha Movement
  ...made "another reincarnation of Vishnu" by Brahmins, thus ending Budhism in India. Singh Sabha recognized this and started their campaign of awakenings for r ...Khalsa Schools were opened through out punjab. Many Sikhs ventured outside India at this period and settled at Malaysia, Canada, U.K, Africa and USA. In Pun
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• Sikhism and Dera Sacha Sauda
  ...they are an organisation with their head-quarters in Sirsa, [[Haryana]], [[India]] - 125055. They use the basis of Sikhism to promote their anti-Sikhi messa ===Express India ===
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• Bhai Baldeep Singh
  During his long journey he pursued masters all over India, Pakistan and indeed the world, seeking any fragment of the Guru’s tradit ...8) have drawn enthusiastic response. His concerts at India Habitat Centre, India International Centre, at Batala Sangeet Sammelan, Guru Manyo Granth (Talkat
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• Hacienda de Guru Ram Das
  ...es the local Hispanic culture with the name of a 16th century saint from [[India]], known as [[Guru Ram Das]], the Guru of Miracles, whose teachings of serv [[Category:Gurdwaras in North America]]
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• Guru Hargobind Sahib: Dawn of a New Era
  ..., 'hand to hand combat and horses galloping the length and breath of north India saving damsels in distress! Sikhs have no idea that we have to re-engineer ...out as Nihangs, and we are no longer galloping across the plains of north India rescuing damsels in distress. Today. We live in the ultra modern megapolise
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• Chhibber
  [[Timur]] invaded India in 1398. While on his way to Delhi, he pillaged and plundered Dipalpur and ...h remained the home of the Chhibbers for 450 years till the [[Partition of India]] in 1947. Praga became a disciple of [[Guru Nanak Dev]] and played an impo
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• Betrayal of the Sikhs
  ...ere is the brief story of a callous betrayal of such a people the Sikhs of India by those whose flesh of flesh and bones of bones the Sikhs are, and whose a .... This promise was then reduced into a formal Policy Resolution of the All India Congress Committee.
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• Singh is Kinng
  ...(£7.35 million). The film was released on 1700 screens worldwide, across India, U.K., U.S.A, Canada, and U.A.E. ...oreign Box Office were ‘Om Shanti Om’ and ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ especially in the North American circuit. ‘Singh is Kinng’, however, beat both the films’ ope
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• Kabir Panthi
  ...lays its dual origins. They are numerous in provinces of Upper and Central India, notably in Uttar Pradesh extending into Bihar. ...rough the aphoristic two-line sĝkhī (or doha) that serves throughout north India as a vehicle for popular wisdom. Kabir gave the essence of all Holy Scriptu
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• Haryana Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
  ...at Akal Takht on aug 12 2009, the leaders consented to formulating an All-India Gurdwara Act (AIGA) that will bring Sikh shrines across the country under o ...Act-1925, which forms the basis of the SGPC controlling gurdwaras in north India. The Act has been a demand of the Sikhs since Independence.
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• Sikhs in Assam
  ...d cultures, peoples and climate with South-East Asia—important elements in India’s Look East policy. Assam became a part of India after the British occupied the region following the Treaty of Yandaboo of 1
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• Namdhari
  *The Namdharis were founded by their Guru—Balak Singh (1797-1862) in north-west Panjab. ...ancy to return to simple piety. They consider themselves the initiators of India's struggle for freedom since they boycotted British education, law courts,
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• When Sikhs conquered Delhi
  Sikhs had emerged as a strong and powerful force in northern India, and eventually halted Abdali's invasions. Under the leadership of [[Dal Kh With no enemy in the North, and Shah Alam II at the head of the decaying [[Mughal Empire]] at [[Delhi]
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• Anti Sikh Racism in Europe
  ...e:Photo 47. The arrival of Sikh soldiers in Marseilles, 1914. Gentlemen of India marching to chaste.jpg]] <small>The arrival of Sikh soldiers in Marseilles, October 1914. Gentlemen of India marching to chasten German Hooligans.</small>
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• When Sikhs captured the Red Fort
  ...and weak. [[Sikh]]s had emerged as a strong and powerful force in northern India. The Sikhs eventually halted Abdali’s invasions. Under the leadership of With no enemy in the North, and [[Shah Alam II]] at the head of the decaying [[Mughal Empire]] at Delh
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• Bhai Avtar Singh and his father Bhai Jawala Singh
  ...sic is a frozen heritage of the 15/16th century's music tradition of North India. He belongs to a rare category of 'raagis' of the Sikh tradition who are fu Bhai Jawala Singh presided over the first All India Ragis conference in 1942. He passed away on 29 May 1952 at his village in S
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• Kashmir
  '''Kashmir''' also known as Cashmere, os located in the north-western region of the [[Indian]] subcontinent. Historically the term Kashmi ...Then, events of 1947 took over the scene, and the country was divided into India and Pakistan, with Kashmir undecided.
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• Janamsakhis
  ...he first journey or udasi Guru Nanak Dev Ji left Sultanpur towards eastern India and included, in the following sequence : The Second udasi was to the south of India with companion Bhai Mardana.
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• New Gurdwara in San Diego
  ...Escondido, filling a gap between existing temples in Poway and Riverside. (North County Times file photo)}} ...o several online resources. It originated in the Punjab region of northern India in the early 15th century. The word Sikh means "disciple" or "learner" in S
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• Sarkar Khalsaji, the Sikh Raj
  ...ry force never conquered and governed large parts of [[Indian subcontinent|India]] outside [[Punjab region|Punjab]]. Constant warfare between the later baro According to James Browne, a contemporary East India Company employee, the barons collected a very moderate rent, and that mostl
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• Third Udasi
  ...si.jpg|thumb|250px|Guru Nanak Dev Ji accompanied by Mardana Ji in Northern India|right]] ...with his companion [[Bhai Mardana]]. He travelled in all four directions - North, East, West and South. The founder [[Sikh Guru]] is believed to have travel
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• Guru Nanak in Madina
  ...een to the east as far as Burma, to the South as far as Ceylon, and to the North as far as Tibet and China. In all these places he had visited the stronghol ...him. They threatened him. One of them, named Jiwan, who, having come from India, was more fanatic and rash than the rest. kicked him ana said, 'Who art tho
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• Fifth Udasi
  ...si.jpg|thumb|250px|Guru Nanak Dev Ji accompanied by Mardana Ji in Northern India|right]] ...with his companion [[Bhai Mardana]]. He travelled in all four directions - North, East, West and South. The founder [[Sikh Guru]] is believed to have travel
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• SANT BHINDRANWALE'S IDEOLOGY AND MISSION
  ...h ideology was diluted. This diversion happened during the British rule in India. Nevertheless it did not lose its distinct identity as it floated like a lo ...ve and cautioned the Sikhs of the impending danger. In the Constitution of India the Hindus have already incorporated Article 25 (2) (b) which has clubbed t
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• DID THE SIKHS HAVE A PLAN ?
  ...sted itself in Pakistan propaganda against Sikhs in particular and against India in general, is a rare treat and is hard to beat. It must be a very stupid ...gue, and the mass-murders of Hindus (and Sikhs) witnessed in Noakhali, the North-Western Frontier Province, the Punjab and Kashmir in pursuance of this prog
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• Chief Khalsa Diwan
  ...eachers. The Delhi darbar of 1903, when the Duke of Connaught was visiting India as a representative of the British Crown, was considered an appropriate occ ...jab, the Diwan preachers made reglar visits to adjacent provinces, notably North West Frontier Province and Sindh. To train ragls (musicians who recited the
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• Sikhism in Singapore
  ...s to land in Singapore came in the form of sepoys (policemen) recruited in India to help keep the peace and put down the Chinese gang wars. In 1873, Captain ...Singh died suddenly leaving behind a young son. Hari Singh got married in India and adopted Bhagat Singh's son, Achar Singh.
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• Patiala
  ...''' ''click to enlarge''<br>(courtesy [http://in.maps.yahoo.com Yahoo! map India])}}]] ..., 76° 26'E) is a district and a town in the state of [[Punjab]] in north [[India]]. It was formerly the capital of a princely Sikh state until it lapsed in
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• Giani Sant Singh Maskeen remembered
  ...d to stay miles away from politics and factionalism. Wherever he went in [[India]] and abroad for Gurmat Parchar, he never deterred to ask the [[Sikh]]s to ==Tribute from Prime Minister of India==
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• Sant Teja Singh
  Returning to India, he settled down at Mastuana, the headquarters of Sant Atar Singh. Briefly ...rehabilitation for people of rural, backward and remote areas of Northern India.
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• Bhai Santa Singh
  ...and the start of a special one hour morning service on the airwaves of All India Radio Jalandhar-Amritsar in honour of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. ...rty were available in the market for decades and different stations of All India Radio including Delhi, Jalandhar, Jammu and Lucknow used to play these reco
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• Mazhabi
  ...fficials. "Martial Race" was a designation created by officials of British India to describe "races" (peoples) that were thought to be naturally warlike and ...its former punjab territories of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana in Northern India including Delhi. Peshawer, Lahore and Amritsar are historical to the Mazhab
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• THE CABINET MISSION AND THE MUSLIM LEAGUE DIRECT ACTION
  ...to stand with the Congress with its ideal of a tolerant, secular state in India, rather than with the fanatical Muslim League. So, by a majority of nearly ...against non-Muslims. The League won a fairly large number of seats in the North-Western Frontier Province. In the Central Legislative Assembly it won all
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• Nanak in Sikkim, Ladakh and Tibet
  [[Image:Guru dongmar lake.jpg|thumb|Guru Dongmar Lake, North Sikkim]]In his lifetime, [[Guru Nanak]] traveled to various distant places, When you go to the [[Golden Temple]] in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab]], [[India]] one of the most interesting things you will observe are Tibetan pilgrims
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• Golden Temple
  ...den Temple, is a [[Gurdwara]] located in the city of [[Amritsar]], Punjab, India. It is one of the most revered spiritual sites of [[Sikhism]]. ...one of the greatest generals of military history, one of the few rulers of India to serve his Kingdom and its subjects of, various religions, with an eye to
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• Pearl S Buck
  When I was in India in 1962, one of the notable events of my Visit was the presentation to me o ...ch of the brilliant minds and deep searching hearts of men who are part of India. Through them we see a Beyond that belongs to us all. The result is a unive
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• Jatehdaar Baba Bir Singh Rangreta
  ...l Abbastons and H.A Rose book; (A glossary of tribes and castes Punjab and north west frontier" Part-II, pg.57) ...lso called with the same name."(A glossary of tribes and castes Punjab and north west frontier" Part-II, pg.57)
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• Bhang
  ==Bhang use in the rest of India== Bhang Ki Thandai (Hindi) is a drink popular in many parts of India which is made by mixing bhang with thandai, a cold beverage prepared with a
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• Diwali
  ...li" which translates into "row of lamps". Diwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname ...le for freedom and eventual success in establishing the Khalsa rule in the north of [[Delhi]].
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• Goindwal
  ...enovation of the highway by [[Sher Shalh Suri]], the Afghan ruler of north India (1540-45), this ferry site became an important transit point. This led one
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• Guru Nanak & Shamsis
  ...Sahib who visited many of the lands to the East, North, South and West of India was known by many pirs, as he had met many during his journeys. When pirs (
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• Education in J&K during Dogra rule
  ...95. Keeping in view the fact that even the advanced provinces and State of India were very backward in the education of females, same was the condition of J ...ge was located in the new building erected for it out side the city on the north side of river Tawi. In the year 1905 a college was opened in Srinagar under
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• Gurdwara Nanaklama Sahib
  ...tate borders Nepal in the west, the Chinese Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and east, Bhutan in the south-east and the Indian state of West Bengal to i ...the age. This sect had fled from Tibet to the Himalayan belt of Northern [[India]], which included {{wiki|Ladakh}}, [[Himachal Pradesh]], [[Uttra-Khand]], {
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• Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
  ...eft Secunderabad on 3 March 1941 for Penang Island and from there to Ipoh, north of Kuala Lumpur in Malaya. After about two months stay at Ipoh, their Batta ...f Asia could not be achieved and maintained without a free and independent India. He further said that if Indian POWs in Malaya were prepared to fight the B
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• Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  ...Partition of India resulted in the slaughter of lacks of humans as North India was divided along religious lines. The pangs of this separation are recurre ...o came in our life only for a few brief moments. I had not heard of him in India and met him for the first time when I went to receive him at Heathrow. I wa
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• Caste System
  ...and permanent division of social status based on birth alone, as it did in India, that caste becomes a curse. ...shackle almost impossible to unfetter. The caste system that developed in India over the millennia possessed all these ingredients and characteristics. And
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• Bajrang Dal
  Dr Surendra Jain, Bajrang Dal's all-India convenor, told Outlook it was declares Ashok Kapoor, north Delhi convenor of the Bajrang Dal and son
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• Mata Sunder Kaur
  ...row to love and respect each other over a lifetime is still more common in India than the so called love match more common in the West. ...stead of the Guru going to Lahore. A scenic place a couple of miles to the north of Anand Pur was developed into a nice camp for the marriage. This place wa
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• Bhagat Singh Thind
  ...n Association of the Pacific Coast'''. Its main objective was to liberate India from British rule, just as the Americans had done more than a century befor ...educated readers had delved into ancient Hindu texts, knew anything about India, its religions and history. A Sikh by faith, Bhagat Singh Thind preserved
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• Interesting articles 1
  ...ic.com/cms/articles/thumbnail/sumatra-thmnl.gif|If you have been to the North Sumatra capital of Medan, you may well have passed through an area of th ...lation to SGPC and those involved in the management of the Gurdwaras in India. There is a feeling of lack of leadership, corruption, over politicizati
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• Bhagat Sadhna
  | '''Death :''' || Sirhind, Punjab, India ...'''.<ref name=HAROSE>A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West, HA ROSE</ref>
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• Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  ...Battle of Panipat, he dealt a drippling blow to Maratha pretensions in the North. Thus he created a power vacuum in the Punjab, which was filled by the Sikh ...ikhs were especially the target of Ahmad Shah Abdali's sixth invasion into India. News had reached him in Afghanistan of the defeat of his general, Nur-ud-D
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• Nanak
  ...athed his last in 1539, his name had travelled not only throughout India's north, south, east and west, but also far beyond into Arabia, Mesopotamia(Iraq), History states that he made four great journeys, travelling to all parts of [[India]], and into [[wikipedia:Arabia|Arabia]] and [[wikipedia:Persia|Persia]]; vi
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• Guru Nanak in Sri Lanka
  Even before the advent of [[Islam]], India was torn into warring sections and subsections. [[Casteism]] had reduced th Guru Nanak's name is interlocked not only with the idea of one integrated India, but also with the vision of one world and with the unity of man. When he s
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• Sant Sohan Singh Ji Malacca
  ...nesday, 24th May 1972 at 1.30pm in the General Hospital of Ipoh, 130 miles North of Kuala Lumpur, passed away at the age of seventy Sant Sohan Singh Ji of M ...is death spread very fast and Sikhs came to Ipoh from distant towns as far north as Penang. Under normal circumstances his remains would have been cremated
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• Sikh History July
  ...s, addressed the conference and it was here that general J.S. Bhullar from India made the first appearence on the Canadian scene. 1978: The All India Sikh Students Federation was reorganized. Bhai Amrik Singh was elected the
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• 1839 A.D - 1849 A.D. The turbulent years
  ...ikhs, while foot soldiers included poorbia mercenaries hired from all over India. Artillery was in command of a capable Punjabi leader named Mian Ghaus Khan ...l that his was the only power that could compete with them for the rule of India.
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• Operation Blue Star
  ...e [[Harmandir Sahib complex]] on the orders of the then Prime Minister of India, {{w|Indira Gandhi}}. At the time of the operation, close to 100,000 army t ...machar group such as Lala Jagat Narain were gunned down--the Government of India implicated Bhindrenwale and arrested him at Chowk Mehta in 1982, but he was
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• Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib (Dhubri)
  ...bri}} Town on the bank of the mighty Brahmaputra river in far north-east [[India]] in the state of [[Assam]]. [[Guru Nanak]] the first [[Sikh Guru]] visited ...] during his 17th century visit to the area. Sikh devotees from all over [[India]] and the world assemble in this [[Gurdwara]] every year in the month of De
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• Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
  ...mage of General Adina Beg Zafar Jang Bahadur who belongs to Arain tribe of India/Pakistan which is a Muslim tribe. For more information see http://www.sikh- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia occupied the area to the north of Amritsar between the Ravi and the Beas rivers. He also added the Jalandh
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• Guru Nanak In Bangladesh
  Guru Nanak came to Dhaka by boat, which anchored at Shivpur village in the north of Dhaka. Later it took the name of Rayer Bazar, Dhanmandi and turned Dhanm During the Baishakhi and Guru Nanak birth anniversary, Sikh Jathas from India visited Guru Nanakshashi and stayed here. Even the foreign Sikh nationals w
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• Structure of Harmandar Sahib
  ...ri Harmandar Sahib is located in [[Amritsar]] in [[Punjab]], [[India|North India]]. ...e Akal Takht is the Shaheed [[ Baba Gurbaksh Singh]] Ashton. Jjust to the north of the Takht is the [[Gurdwara Thara Sahib]], built at the spot were the 9t
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• A day at the Golden Temple
  ...umb|300px|right|the Golden Temple, Sri Harimandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab, India]] ...t of their [[Gurdwara]]s. Below is an account of a typical day in the busy north Indian city of [[Amritsar]].
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• Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
  ...indus and Sikhs who were uprooted from their homes in the West Punjab, the North-Western Frontier, Sind and parts of Kashmir. It tells the story of politica ...b, the North-Western Frontier, Sind and parts of Kashmir. The Partition of India led to one of the greatest population movements in the 20th century. The ap
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• OFFER OF SIKH STATE RECALLED BY MAHARAJA YADAVINDER SINGH
  ...h the leaders of the political parties of India and the then Government of India, on behalf of the Indian States, during the period when negotiations were g ...he solution. That was the popular mental makeup. There was excitement that India would be free; yet there were longdrawn faces of people who thought that fr
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• Sikhi’s Sufi connection
  ...ed as a title of respect for male elders in Iran, Afghanistan and Northern India. ...other such careerists who ‘considered it expedient to migrate to Northern India from Kabul when Afghanistan was trampled by hordes of [[Mughals]] during th
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• Worldwide praise for the Guru Granth Sahib
  When I was in India in 1962, one of the notable events of my Visit was the presentation to me o ...eligion of the Sikhs is one of the most interesting at present existing in India, possibly indeed in the whole world. A reading of the Granth strongly sugg
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• SNC Banga
  ...f the region, but to become a beacon light for other institutions of North India – owing to its innate dynamism and historicity. This college has already
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• Satnami's
  ...time, they had in their possession the whole areas of Southern Haryana and North Rajasthan. These Sikhs associated themselves with Sikhism during the visit ...Christianity. Guru Ghasidas established Satnami community in Chhattisgarh, India based on "Satnam" (meaning "Truth") and equality. The Guru's teachings and
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• DID SIKHS (AND HINDUS) VOLUNTARILY LEAVE PAKISTAN?
  ...rs had long advocated exchange of population between Muslim and non-Muslim India. All those who advocated the establishment of a Muslim State also advocate ...from East Bengal, as many as twenty-five lakhs of Hindus had to migrate to India. Even in a credulous world it Is somewhat hard to swallow that all these p
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• Supreme sacrifice
  [[Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib]] which is situated 5 km north of [[Sirhind]] marks the sad site of the execution of the two younger sons ...phesized that this tragedy will herald the uprooting of Mughal Empire in [[India]]. And to the Emperor he wrote in the [[Zafarnama]]: ''"…Even though my f
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• Ignored Sikh Tribes; Vanjaras, Sikligars and Satnamis
  ...ere are more than 12 crores (120 million) of ignored Sikh tribal people in India. The majority of them are from three tribes. Numerically the Vanjara tribe is the most important, spread all over South India. Vanjaras are among those Sikhs who irrigated with the blood of whole of th
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• Gurdwara Nanak Shahi, Dhaka
  ...once by [[Guru Baba Nanak]]. Its historic and religious importance outside India is second perhaps only to the Gurdwaras of [[Nankana Sahib]] and [[Panja Sa ...wara has become a social forum for all the employees of High Commission of India in Dhaka and a few other Sikhs attached to United Nations Organisation and
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• Sikh sacrifice in Belgium
  ...ndland and, of course, our main subject today - Sikhs from [[India|British India]]. It is quite obvious that even here a uniform sense of nation remained bl ...ish Indian Labour Corps would, in our present day and age, be hailing from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma or Nepal. Even some smaller constituent parts
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• Anandpur
  ...places of the [[Sikh]]s, second only to [[Amritsar]]. Located about 95kms north-west of [[Chandigarh]]. Anandpur is framed between the Shivalik hills to th ...th. These projects have brought Anandpur Sahib on the rail and road map of India. It is located at a distance of 80 km from Chandigarh - the city of dreams.
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• The Legend of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
  ...me and his picture with the hat became popular in practically all parts of India after his execution. Nehru referred to his popularity as “sudden and ama ...ong the industrial workers, the peasants and the youth in general in north India towards the end of 1920s. The radicalism inspired by the Russian revolution
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• History of Punjab
  ...ple.[3] The next one thousand years of the history of the Punjab and North India in general (c.1500-500 BCE) is dominated by the Indo-Aryans and the mixed p ...and the Yadus---and five non-Indo-Aryan (that is, Iranian) clans from the north-west frontiers of present-day Punjab---the Pakthas, the Alinas, the Bhalana
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• Punjabi Suba Agitation
  ...port of 1928 had stated that "the present distribution of the provinces of India is on no rational basis. It is merely by accident that a particular area fe ...the former had rejected the League overtures and thrown in their lot with India. Hukam Singh carried to the Prime Minister a letter written by Master Tara
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• Sikhism in Canada
  In the 1890 and early 1900s all immigrants from India were indiscriminately called "hindoo" or "hindu" regardless of religious af ...grated to Canada, having severed in the British Army and been largely from India or African colonies were already, as were the Canadians they joined, loyal
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• Book One, The Sikh Problem, by Sangat Singh
  ...after the colonial rule have found new contours of their past. History of India too has been rewritten from that perspective. For instance, yesterday’s e ...g Ganesh festival in 1893, contended shortly before his death in 1920 that India was not yet a nation. Swami Dayanand articulated in parts the Hindus of Pun
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• Miri Piri
  ...ical clergy to annihilate [[Sikhism]] and other non-Islamic religions of [[India]] or fight the tyranny. Guru sahib chose the latter and showed extraordinar ...hs but also, for the whole multi-religious and multi-cultural society of [[India]].
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• Significance of Vaisakhi
  ...kirtan]]s will be arranged in many large cities both in the west and in [[India]]; lots of [[Langar]]s will be held in many [[Gurdwara]]s ; and holy [[Paat ...aisakhi|initiation of the Khalsa Panth]]’, in the religious landscape of [[India]], indeed re-defined the concept of standing up against religious tyranny a
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• Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
  ...f the [[Damdami Taksal]], a [[Sikh]] religious group based in [[Punjab]] [[India]] during the late 1970's and early 1980's. Sant Bhindranwale carried heavy ...e bowed and clutched at his feet (this is an old and honoured tradition of India done to show respect to ones elders) and sobbed out her story of how she wa
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• Dr. W. Hew Mcleod
  ...armer and belonging to the Presbyterian church, he had come to Punjab, the north Indian border province that has a [[Sikh]] majority population, as a Christ ...in establishing and popularising the academic study of [[Sikhism]] outside India. He leaves behind a body of work on [[Sikhism]] which will be a source of r
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• Bhatra
  ...athinda]] districts, or in [[Jalandhar]] or [[Chandigarh]]; elsewhere in [[India]] they tend to live in cities, particularly [[Delhi]]. During the Islamic invasions of modern day Pakistan and india, many Saraswat Brahmins were forced to flee due to religious oppression. Su
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• Menin Gate and the Sikhs
  ...es Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in are ...n in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the
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• Guru Nanak Dev (By Puran Singh)
  ...athed his last in 1539, his name had travelled not only throughout India's north, south, east and west, but also far beyond into Arabia, Mesopotamia(Iraq), ...way of Baluchistan. He travelled throughout the north-western frontier of India and the Kashmir. None ever travelled so much with one single purpose; name
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• Sakhi of Bhagat Dhanna
  ...city, in the {{w|Tonk district}}, [[Rajasthan]], present day North West [[India]]. He was a simple Indian farmer who worked hard on his farm all day tend
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• Interesting articles 2
  ...nted to a bald refusal of justice to victims, Sikhs for Justice and All India Sikh Students Federation have announced}} ...halsa Day, which was marked by a festival at the Gurdwara on Park Road North and a parade that celebrated the culture of Sikhism in Canada. I have
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• Anandpur resolution
  Congress Party, with Giani Zail Singh (later, President of India) as chief minister. This electoral of a succession of resolutions at the 18th All India Akali Conference of the Shiromani Akali Dal
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• Anandpur Sahib Resolution
  ...ands of the Congress Party, with [[Giani Zail Singh]] (later, President of India) as chief minister. This electoral debacle led to self introspection on the ...It was endorsed in the form of a succession of resolutions at the 18th All India Akali Conference of the Shiromani Akali Dal at Ludhiana on 28-29 October, 1
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• History of Guru Nanak's travel to Mecca
  ...dquarters and famous religious places in South India, East India and North India discussing and spreading path of Almighty. "He (Nanak) travelled over the whole of India; visited Persia, Kabul and other parts of Asia, and, it is said, even Mecca
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• Cheese makers of Italy
  ...ur family''' are one of the 25,000+ Sikh Italian families with roots from India's Punjab region. Like many in the Sikh community they have found their call ...sacres and other gross human rights violations in Punjab (and elsewhere in India) created a mini-Punjab on Italian soil.
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh liberates Jammu
  ...r valley which could give protection to the kingdom of [[Punjab]] from the North. It was also the richest province second only to Multan. [[Maharaja Ranjit ...ls/sikhsafghansinco00shahrich The Sikhs and Afghans, in connexion with the India and Persia, immediately before and after the death of Ranjeet Singh: from t
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• Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi
  ..., in the province of [[Wikipedia: Punjab (British India) | Punjab (British India)]]. His parents from a Khatri Sikh family, of Puri Clan. His father, Dr. Ka ...d upon each other during the [[Wikipedia:partition of India | partition of India]], when he and his family fled to [[New Delhi]] as refugees. There, Harbhaj
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• Chardi Kala Jatha
  Each is a graduate and now a teacher at Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, India, and Jugat Guru Singh Khalsa, one of the Jatha members, is the Principal an ...os Angeles Sikh community hosted the Chardi Kala Kirtan Jatha of Amritsar, India. This group of young graduates from Miri Piri Academy in Cherta, near Amrit
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• Chhimba
  ...&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=tank%20kshatriya&f=false</ref> community in India .<ref>A Glossary of the Tribes & Castes of Punjab by H. A Rose</ref> Chhimb H.A. Rose<ref>[[A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/B ]], p.166</ref> writes that Th
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• Gurdwaras in Delhi
  ...aseesganjsahibsahib.JPG|[[Gurdwara Sri Guru Sis Ganj Sahib]], [[Delhi]], [[India]]}} [[Gurdwara Nanak Piau]]- north of Sabzi mandi along the Grand Trunk Road is where Guru Nanak first arrived
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• Tagore and Sikhi
  ...writing in Bengali, which is regional language. In spite of that, not only India but the whole world reads my writings. ...held to represent fairly well the current trends of historical research in India. Thus there has been a growth of papers on women’s history, environmental
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• Guru Nanak in Baghdad
  ...hlol. It lies to the west of the town and between the old graveyard to the north and the present Baghdad-Samara railway line to the south. [[Dr. Kirpal Sing * [[Guru Nanak in East India]]
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• EUROCENTRISM AND KHALSA-CENTRISM
  ...first raised its ugly head in Sikh research when E. Trumpp was invited by India office authorities in 1869, to produce a translation of Siri Guru Granth Sa 11. Sikh Gurus strictly observed the caste system of India.
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• Zafarnama
  ...h [[Sikh]] [[Guru]], [[Guru Gobind Singh]] in [[1705]] to the Emperor of [[India]], [[Aurangzeb]]. The letter is written in exquisite [[Persian]] verse. In ...lsa]] not to rest until his empire and its evil practises is driven out of India or destroyed.
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• Sikhi
  ...ginated and primarily developed in the 15th-17th century sub-continental [[India]] (South Asia). The word ''Sikhi'' derives from the word ''[[Sikh]]'', whic ...ire]]. Presently, a majority of the Sikhs live in Punjab, India, and until India's partition in 1947, millions of Sikhs had lived in what is now Pakistani P
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• Origin Of RSS
  ...e a political/religious ideology, but Hinduism does reach into the soul of India and any ideological exploitation of it, however limited its reach, has prof C.R. Thomas is a British journalist covering India.
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• Battle of Saragarhi
  ...Province}} (now in [[Pakistan]], which then formed part of {{wiki|British India}}). In keeping with the tradition of the [[Sikh Regiment|Sikh Army]], they ...hs were raised in 1887 at a time when Russian expansion was feared and the North-West Frontier needed strong fortification. Their brief history is notable f
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• India, shame on you!
  ...reason for great shame and sadness for the authorities and politician of [[India]] and for all people of the nation. ...r understanding; it is behaviour belonging to the Stone Age. Shame on you, India! You may have made some material progress in the last sixty years but the s
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• Sikh Light Infantry
  : Country India ...ed by the Punjabis as the major source of manpower for the British Army in India, but their loyalty had to be carefully nurtured. The British made many mist
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• Akali Movement
  ...battle for India's freedom won." Guru ka Bagh (Garden of the Guru), 20 km north of Amritsar, a small shrine commemorating Guru Arjan's visit, witnessed a m
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• Jarnail Singh
  ...ttention, caused by his moment of anger, resonated with [[Sikh]]s around [[India]] and the world and caused the Congress Party to question the wisdom of sup ...as of the view that this issue is not going to affect his candidature from North East Delhi in Loksabha 2009 elections.
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