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• Sikh Khalsa Army
  Sikh Khalsa Army (1801-1849) was the military force of the Sikh Empire responsible for land warfare, land defence, and all responsibilities ...der in Chief (military leader) Emperor Maharaja Ranjit Singh. However, the Sikh military high command could contest a decision by the Commander in Chief, t
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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. ...ry. He fought with this regiment throughout the First Afghan War and First Sikh War and had been promoted to commissioned rank for gallantry and distinguis
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• Sikh Army Band
  [[File:03012010039.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Army Band]] '''Sikh Army Band'''
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• First Sikh officer in Pakistan Army
  ...|thumb|300px|right|{{c|GC Harcharn Singh wearing turban as required by his Sikh faith}}]] ...ce the country’s inception. Though, many [[Christian]]s have served in the army.
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• Dal
  ...the [[Mughal]] governor of the [[Punjab]], different roving bands of the [[Sikh]]s were concentrated in [[Amritsar]].
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• Sher Singh Attariwalla
  ...ean success in the second Anglo-Sikh war. After defeat in the second Anglo-Sikh war, the British forced him into exile, out of Punjab, fearing such powerfu [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sikh Army Band
  [[File:03012010039.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Army Band]] '''Sikh Army Band'''
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• Chattar Singh Attariwalla
  ...r Singh Attariwalla who with his army gave devastating blow to the British Army at Chillianwalah. [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sikhs serve langar to soldiers
  ...Making curry1m.jpg|thumb|250px|right|{{c|Members of the Sikh community and army chefs prepare the huge curry}}]] '''[http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Spicing-up-Army-lunches.4379585.jp Spicing up Army lunches]'''
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• Simranpreet Singh Lamba
  ...h"> [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/first-sikh-in-3-decades-enlisted-in-the-us-army/134808-3.html?from=tn IBN News] </ref> ...mranSikhnowpublic"> [http://www.nowpublic.com/world/simran-lamba-first-u-s-army-graduate-30-years-turban-allowed-2726444.html Nowpublic.com] </ref>
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• Harcharan Singh
  ...ary Academy, Singh marched in step with his fellow cadets before Pakistani Army's vice chief, Lt Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, during the passing out parade on He was commissioned into the army by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on 17 April 2006 at the Pakistan Military Ac
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• June 18
  ...shrine as part of their fight for an independent state, called Khalistan. Sikh leaders have demanded an apology for the operation from successive governme
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• Akali Phoola Singh’s Battle for Kashmir
  ...araja Ranjit Singh]]. Unable to proceed through the Pass protected by the army, the Sikhs were instructed to follow footpaths through hilly terrain. By t ...The Pathans, occupying the sides of the path, rained bullets on the Sikh army. Akali Ji directed his soldiers to get on the mountains, instead of moving
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• Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert
  ...s services in his despatches. Gilbert also commanded a division of Gough's army in the second AngloSikh war, in the battles of Cheliarivala (13 January 184 1. Gupta, Hari Ram, Panjab on the Eve of First Sikh War. Chandigarh, 1956
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• Fauj I Khas
  ...has was a brigade of the army of Punjab in the time before the First Anglo-Sikh War. ...gh who started to hire European officers to train and command parts of his army. The Fauj-i-Khas was a model brigade trained and equipped after European mo
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• 32nd Sikh Pioneers
  ...united with 23rd Sikh Pioneers and 34th Sikh Pioneers, to form 2nd Bn, 3rd Sikh Pioneers.
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• Brave Acts of Singhs
  ...ed he would kill all Skh soldiers, within few minutes, although some Hindu army officers warned him againist directly engaging against singhs as they might ==Brave acts during 1984 Anti-Sikh genocide==
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• Kulwant Singh Pannu
  ...gail (now in Bangladesh) and tasked to cut off the 93 Brigade of Pakistani Army which was retreating from the north to defend Dacca and its approaches. For [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith
  ...1846). His troops were stationed at Dharamkot when a division of the Sikh army under Ranjodh Singh Majithia crossed the Sutlej at Phillaur, seriously thre ...va at 'Alival. Soon afterwards, Harry Smith's division joined Lord Gough's army and on 10 February took part in the [[Battle of Sabhraon]]. Later Sir Harry
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• Jhanda Singh Dhillon
  ...i Singh Dhillon]], one of the most powerful, admired and famous of all the Sikh warriors of the time. He also had a famous warrior brother [[Ganda Singh Dh [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sarabjit Singh Dhillon
  ...ce services staff course, Wellington, senior and higher command courses at Army War College, Mhow and also the National Defence college at New Delhi. [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Imam Shah
  ...He was of Persian descent and a grandson of Qamar udDin, an officer in the army of Nadir Shah. In 1810, on the death ofJodh Singh, Imam Shah joined serv during the first AngloSikh war. His son, Muhammad Shah, a commandant in Sikh artillery, also took part in the battle along with his father.
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• Hurbon
  ...Mouton, entrenchments at Ferozeshah and Sabhraori during the first Anglo Sikh war. As the hostilities ended, he was deported to Europe by the British in
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• Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
  ...of Longewala for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army. ...s company did not abandon the post and held the 2000-3000 strong Pakistani Army at bay for the full night until the Indian Air Force arrived in the morning
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• Sikh Confederation
  ...re the martyrdom of [[Banda Singh Bahadur]], the Sikh leaders formed the [[Sikh Confederacy]] which begins to influence the political structure of the [[Pu * 1707-1716, Creation of [[Sikh Confederacy]] begins to influence the political structure of the [[Punjab r
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• Jacob Thomas
  ...he wastelands of Haryana. He fought many times back and forth with various Sikh Bands in the area.) ...rom service by the army panchayats (a group of five Sikhs) who controlled Sikh units after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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• Sardar Bahadur Mehtab Singh Galowal
  ...getting some education, he joined the army. He was recruited into the 1st Sikh Regiment in 1874. His outstanding performance resulted in his promotion to Mehtab Singh's services for the Lobana community in the army and in agriculture are well-known.
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• John Holmes
  ...n September 1829, lie left the British, and joined Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army as a gunner, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. He took part in the ...given their discharge. He was posted at Bannu where, in October 1848, the Sikh troops under his command mutinied and killed him for his treasonable conduc
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• Bachittar Singh Malvai
  ...t and the fort of Jamrud. In January 1839, Bachittar Singh accompanied the Sikh forces escorting Shahzada Taimur, son of Shah Shuja, to Peshawar. He died i
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• Havildar
  ...an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army. ...y or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army.
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• Dafadar
  ...y or equivalent rank to Sergeant in the cavalry of the then British Indian Army. ...an Indian non-commissioned officer equivalent to a Sergeant in the British Army.
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• Raja Pahar Singh
  ...e position of the Sikh army in the battle of Pherushahr saved the British army from the disaster that stared it in the face. His services were rewarded by
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• Pakistan
  ...is birthplace, at [[Nankana Sahib]]. Many other important early historical Sikh shrines are found in Pakistan. Many thousands of Sikhs from all parts of th ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer
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• Gurdwaras in Pakistan (Pictorial View)
  ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer * [[First Sikh officer in Pakistan Army]]
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• Hest
  '''HEST''', a Greek national, who, before joing the Sikh army in 1843, was the commandant of Hyderabad artillery. According to Carmichael
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• Ilahi Bakhsh
  '''ILAHI BAKHSH''', an officer in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army who commanded the special artillery wing of FaujiKhas and a portion of the ...Sir Lepel Griffin described him as "the best artillery officer in the Sikh army."
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• Sikh Khalsa Army
  Sikh Khalsa Army (1801-1849) was the military force of the Sikh Empire responsible for land warfare, land defence, and all responsibilities ...der in Chief (military leader) Emperor Maharaja Ranjit Singh. However, the Sikh military high command could contest a decision by the Commander in Chief, t
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• Farris
  '''FARRIS''' (d. 1842), a Frenchman, who joined the Sikh army in 1841 and was employed in the gunpowder factory. He died at Lahore with
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• Nang
  ...athedar]]s of Nihang Dals such as Budha Dal have authority to punish their army members after trial.
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• Henry Charles Van Cortlandt
  ...Ismail Khan. In 1846, General Cortlandt accompanied the British, with the Sikh force under his command, to Kashmir to quell the revolt instigated by Wazi 3. Ganda Singh, Private Correspondence Relating to the Anglo-Sikh Wars. Amritsar, 1955
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• Bhai Lachhman Singh Granthi
  ...ga Devi. His original name was Lachhman. As he grew up, he enlisted in the army as a cook. There he underwent the rites of Khalsa initiation and received ...e was drawn into the Gurdwara movement for the reform and management of Sikh shrines. He registered himself as an Akali volunteer and attained marty
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• Fateh Singh Man
  ...am Singh Man, soldier, diplomat and commander in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army. He entered the service of the Maharaja as a trooper, and took part in seve ...r Dhian Singh. In 1839, he served under Kanvar Nau Nihal Singh in the Sikh army sent to Peshawar to assist Colonel Claude Wade in Shahzada Taimur's expedit
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• Gurdwara Yaadgaar Shaheedan
  Dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of 1984 assault of the Indian Army on the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple), Sri Amritsar ...ex add grandeur to Sikh history, who fell martyr fighting against the huge army, defending these shrines from the invaders. ''
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• Jathedar Ranbeer Singh
  ...aged eleven). He has one sister and three brothers who are employed in the army or work in agriculture. ...uties in the army. He received a pension after serving twenty years in the army and came to stay with Sant Kartar Singh Ji Khalsa, Jatha Bhindra Mehta. San
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• George Thomas
  ...a band of mountain robbers in south India and then took up service in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad as a gunner, but soon afterwards came to Delhi ...after he broke the truce and took possession ofFatehabad and pillaged the Sikh territories of Bhavanigarh, Sunam, and Narangval. He invaded Kaithal and Sa
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• Sikh Communities on Orkut
  [[SIKH COMMUNITY]] [[Sikh Youth]]
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• General Harsukh Rai
  ...he soon returned to the army. In 1836, he secured a ranked position in the Sikh court which he held until 1839, when he was sent again to Multan to take ch ...sed into the hands of Raja Lal Singh who appointed him aa a general in the army.
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• Arjinderpal S. Sekhon
  ...pal Singh "A.J." Sekhon''', MD is a [[Punjab]]-born [[Sikh]] physician and Army Colonel who ran for Congress in California's 2nd district in 2006. He is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve's 36th Civil Affairs Brigade (one of only two bearded and turbaned
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• Majitha
  ...on. These were several generals in [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh's]] army of the Sikh Empire in the first half of the 19th century. ...the period of 1800-1849. Chief amongst the Majithia generals during the [[Sikh Empire]] were [[General Lehna Singh]], General (aka Raja) Surat Singh, and
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• December 27
  Khalistan supported and the Indian army takes control of all Sikh functions.
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• Firozpur Cantonment
  ...British Indian Army. Today, it is a Divisional headquarter for the Indian Army. ...s was an important Cantonment for the British, it was a base for the Anglo-Sikh Wars in the 1840s. And continued as an important cantonment that was a base
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• Operation Wood Rose
  ...rone with weapons undreamed of in the days in which its builder, the first Sikh Guru to ever call for any arming of the Sikhs had asked for [[Miri and Piri ...rrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army.
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• Joginder Singh Dhillon
  ...ero. He was commissioned into Bengal Engineer Group in 1936, was the first Army Officer to be awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ on 24 November 1965. Gen Dhillon, ...Lt Gen and was the first post independence Sapper Army Commander (Central Army).
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• Sir Edward Joseph Thackwell
  ...aign of 183839. He also commanded the cavalry division of Sir Hugh Gough's army in the campaign against the Marathas of Gwalior at the close of 1843. In t ...laughts broke up the British cavalry line and cut down their horsemen. The Sikh horsemen swept the field like lightning and their Khalsa warcries so fright
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• Malagar Singh Babbar
  ...as killed with his close friend Shaheed Manjeet Singh Babbar by the Indian army on the border of Rajasthan, India on 25 October 1990. Was a General of the
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• Khalistani Groups
  1. [[All-India Sikh Students Federation]] (AISSF)<br> 2. [[Khalistan Liberation Army]] (KLA)<br>
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• Nand Singh VC
  He was 29 years old, and an Acting Naik in the 1/11th, Sikh Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he ...the rank of Jemadar in the post-independence Indian Army, and his unit [1 Sikh] was the first to be involved in the Jammu & Kashmir Operations or Indo-Pak
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• Bhai Amrik Singh
  ...e [[Indian]] army known as [[Operation Bluestar]]. He gave new life to the Sikh Students Federation with the help of [[Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]]. ...ll versed in Gurbani and Sikh literature. He devoted whole of his life for Sikh missionary activities. Bhai Sahib Ji was a close companion of Sant Jarnail
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• Banta Singh Dhamian
  ...ngh Gargajj and Babu Santa Singh on 16 February 1923, he resigned from the army and became a member of the action group of the Babar Akali Jatha.
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• Saragarhi Memorial
  ...at [[Firozpur]] was been built in the memory of 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36 Sikh Regiment who fell in heroic defence of Fort Saragarhi in Wazirstan on Septe The 36 Sikh Regiment was raised at [[Firozpur]] on April 1887 under the command of Colo
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• Boyle
  ...rmy in 1843. He was killed fighting against the British in the first AngIo-Sikh war (1845-46).
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• Samadh Jamadar Khushal Singh
  ...Sikh!". Learning about Maharaja's wish, he grew his hair long and became a Sikh, thus he became Khushal Singh from Khushal Ram. Gradually lie rose to the r
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• Buddh Singh Man
  ...d in the service of the Lahore Darbar after the reorganization of the Sikh army under the treaty of
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• Sant Hari Singh Kaharpuri
  '''Sant Hari Singh Kaharpuri''' (1888-1973), Sikh saint and preacher, was born in 1888 in a LiddarJatt family of the village ...ore and more preoccupied with gurbdni and meditation. He resigned from the army on 31 March 1909, and for the next four years served in
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• Bhai Tiratha (Devotee of Guru Hargobind Sahib)
  ...pted whose words will bring you solace." Tiratha also served in the Mughal army as a soldier.
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• News-pending
  ...using a depiction of a Sikh Guru, as a golfer on its cover. According to Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)}} ...ilgrims due to reach Pakistan Today.|NankanaSahib-225x300.jpg|Around 1,000 Sikh pilgrims are due to reach Pakistan today to attend 402nd death anniversary
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• Abdullah Khan
  ...argobindpur]] was, the second battle in which [[Guru Hargobind]] and his [[Sikh]] Risaldari (comrades), fought the forces of Abdullah Khan. This historic w ...tle was fought near the village of Ruhela where [[Guru Hargobind]] and his army defeated the [[Mughal]] force commanded by Abdullah Khan. After the victory
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• Sant Nidhan Singh
  ...0 and enlisted in the 5th Probyn`s Horse, a cavalry regiment of the Indian army, at Jharisi. But he resigned within a year and set out on a pilgrimage to [ ...ahib. To collect funds for the [[Langar]], he went out on preaching tours, army units being his special constituency. As his popularity and his resources g
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• Sir John Hunter Littler
  ...lated and vulnerable, the siege was not pressed with any seriousness. The Sikh commanders having encircled it in a bold sweeping move made no attempt to c ...en and guns and, three days later, effectingjunction with the main British army under Lord Gough, his troops took part in the battle ofFcrozeshah (21 Decem
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• Bhai Indar Singh Pandori Nijharari
  ...took out his discharge in two years' time. He participated in the historic Sikh gathering at Dhavovali on 13 October 1920. He had his name registered as a
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• Milkha Singh Thehpuria
  ...tish military garrison in India. Today the city is the Headquarters of the Army of Pakistan.
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• Lal Singh Moranvala
  ...ed by the Lahore Darbar troops in February 1845. During the first Anglo Sikh war, Lal Singh Moranvala saw action in the battle of 'Alival (28 January 2. Gnpta, Hari Ram, Punjab on the Eve of First Sikh War. Chandigarh, 1956
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• SVAMI RAM TIRATH
  ...h Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Sarvotam Dharma Khalsd PANTH the former on Sikh Scripture declaring it to be the supreme religious text and the latter on t
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• Pakistan Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
  ...nserted the word ‘Sikh.’ Thus, it was re-christened as the PSGPC (Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee). ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer
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• Sikhs and the British
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. ...ry. He fought with this regiment throughout the First Afghan War and First Sikh War and had been promoted to commissioned rank for gallantry and distinguis
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• DIWAN AJUDHIA PARSHAD
  ...commander. At the end of the AngloSikh war in February 1846, when the Sikh army crossed the Sutlej to wage war with the British, he resigned. However, afte
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• Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh
  ...re. He is considered the bravest and most efficient General of the Indian Army. Air Vice Marshall Pinto, Lt Gen Daulet Singh, Brigadier S.R. Uberoi (MC) ...mu city. A statue has also been erected in the middle of this chowk by the Sikh Sangat of Jammu.
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• Lance Naik Karham Singh (P.V.C.)
  ...ion of India via Burma, he enlisted into the Army as number 22356 of First Sikh regiment as Sepoy on 15 September 1941. ...of the Japanese he won the highest award for bravery given by the British Army. He is the only Indian soldier to win the highest medals of both the Britis
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• Battle of Ferozeshah
  ...but the battle was one of the hardest-fought in the history of the British army, and could very easily have been a defeat. Had Tej Singh, who the Sikhs hel ...ah Ranjit Singh in 1839, and British desire to secure the Punjab. The Sikh army, the Khalsa, was goaded by some of the contenders for power in the Punjab a
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• Raja Tej Singh
  ...ons of the regular Sikh army. In 1839, he was sent to Peshawar with other army generals to help Colonel Wade's contingent to force the Khaibar Pass for an ...k the road to Lahore. At Sabhraon (10 Feburary 1846), he advised the brave Sikh general, Sham Singh Atarivala, to leave the battlefield. The latter continu
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• Amarinder Singh
  ...n the Indian Army in June 1963 and resigned in early 1965. He rejoined the Army immediately because hostilities broke out with Pakistan and took part in th ...bar Sahib]]'s complex in [[Operation Bluestar]]. He became convenor of the Sikh Forum and joined the Shiromani Akali Dal. He was elected to the state legis
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• Battle of Ramnagar
  ...November 22, 1848 between British and Sikh forces during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. The British were led by Sir Hugh Gough, while the Sikhs were led by Sh ...ners and Political Agents had effectively ruled the Punjab, using the Sikh army, the Khalsa to maintain order and implement British policy. There was much
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• Ranbir Kaur
  '''RANBIR KAUR - FIRST SIKH GIRL TO JOIN US ARMY ''' ...hday. Now 21 Ranbir Kaur made headlines in 2003 after becoming the first Sikh girl to join the estimated 200,000 women serving in the branches of the US
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• Tejdeep Singh Rattan
  {{p|File:Tejdeepsinghrattan.jpg|Captain Rattan, United States Army (2010)}} ...f [[Sikhism]], was granted special exemptions last year (2010) regarding Army Regulation 600-20 that permit him to wear a beard and a [[turban]] while
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• Sikh Minhas Rajputs
  [[Sikh Minhas Rajput]] '''Minhas Rajput in Sikh history'''
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• Nanak in J & K
  ...es,In 1948, the Gurudwara Pathar Sahib's maintenance was taken over by the Army. ...urdwara Sahib "An institution run by the Army". As a kind courtesy of the Army, STD and CSD facilities are available inside the Gurdwara premises. All the
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• Bhupal Singh
  ...a Ranjit Singh (17801839). He became an officer in a battalion in the Sikh army under General Ventura. In 1838, Bhupal Singh returned to Nepal and was appo
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• Chanan Singh Dhillon
  ...d War II hero and veteran. He fought in World War II in the British Indian army. He was taken prisoner (POW) by the Germans in 1943. He stayed in POW camps ...WWII he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the newly formed Indian Army. After retiring he became president of the ex-services league (Punjab and C
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• July 22
  ...Conference was attended by the socities of the eastern region. The Calgary Sikh Society, which was not on good terms with the federation, provided unqualif ...d anti-Sikh material, should be warned suitably to desist from harming the Sikh community; and that a trust-fund be established to provide pensions to the
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• Hitler on Sikhism
  ...d be replicated in German society. He honoured the Patiala Dynasty and the Sikh faith.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chavan |first=Akshay |date=2019-02-15 |title=Hi ...o fought alongside Hitler's generals. Below a sketch of a Sikh in the Nazi Army, talking about Asians participating in the war on the side of the Axis.
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• The First British Sikh Army
  ...regular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company. ...ry. He fought with this regiment throughout the First Afghan War and First Sikh War and had been promoted to commissioned rank for gallantry and distinguis
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• Rattray Sikhs
  [[Image:NAM rattray Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail.jpg|100px||left|]] ...d Wars and even today remain a front line infantry battalion of the Indian Army.
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• Battle of Mudki
  ...art of the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. The British army won an untidy encounter battle, suffering heavy casualties. ...jah Ranjit Singh was always the driving force of the Sikh kingdom when the Sikh rulers of the areas not under his control began to feel threatened by Ranji
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• Bhai Praga
  ...belonged to [[Mohyal]] Brahmin family. Bhai Gautam was initiated into the Sikh community, at the time of Guru Nanak Sahib. He had met Guru Nanak while Gur ...raga became one of the five Jathedars. He gave great teachings to the Sikh army. On the day of 27th september 1621, when Bhagwan Das Kherar and Karam Chand
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• Henry Fane
  ==Sikh Kingdom honors British guests== ...tertained by a mock battle of the zenana corps of Amazons. He also saw the Sikh crown jewels including the celebrated KohiNur, describing it as a badly cu
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• Darshan Singh Pheruman
  ...in 1912 the Indian army as a sepoy. Two years later, he resigned from the army and set up as a contractor at Hissar. He was doing well as a contractor, wh ...y of a Sikh's plighted word, his name is honoured among the martyrs of the Sikh faith.
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• Harbans Singh Jaswal
  ...r, C.I.E., D.S.O., M.D., LL.D., D.P.H., I.M.S., among other British Indian Army Medical Service and I.M.S. officers. ...as born in Village Baddon, District Hoshiarpur, and belonged to a Jaswal [[Sikh rajput]] family hailing from the Doaba region of the Punjab.
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• Matthew William Ford
  ...ops. He came to [[Lahore]] towards the end of the year and joined the Sikh army as a battalion commander on Rs 800 per month, later commuted for [[jagir]] ...ropean employees of the court became suspect especially in the eyes of the Sikh troops. In March [[1841]], Ford was at [[Hazara]] when he was attacked by h
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• Martyar Jagat Singh
  ...e he joined the 47th Sikh Platoon Indian Army. After two years he left the Army and went to Shanghai (China). Next year he went to the Philippines and afte [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sardar Nidhaan Singh
  ...– Akali Phoola Singh jee got shaheed. Akali jee was the jathedaar of Akali army of Khalsa Panth. He was also the jathedaar of Siri Akal Takhat Sahib. ...his Akali Singhs, despite pleas from Raja Ranjit Singh to stop, the Khalsa army was having hard time standing there watching their Akali veers fighting the
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• Bhai Lakkhu
  ...anded a troop in the battle of [[Kartarpur]] fought against the imperial army under Qutab Khan,faujdar of Jalandhar and a cousin of [[Painda Khan]]. Pai 3. Macauliffe, Max Arthur, The Sikh Religion. Oxford, 1909
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• Jathedar Baba Hanuman Singh
  ...sh. In the battle of Kumbada (Suhana) he was executed along with 500 other Sikh soldiers. During his appointment as the jathedar of Budhadal he also served
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• Sikh Temple, Nanyuki
  ...Nanyuki is currently the main airbase of the Kenya Air Force. The British Army also keeps a base at The Nanyuki Show Ground (NSG) from where it conducts y Image:SikhTempleNanyuki.jpg | {{cs|Entrance to Sikh Temple Nanyuki}}
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• Sir Claude Martine Wade
  ...ph Wade of the Bengal army, was born on 3 April 1794. He joined the Bengal army in 1809 and was promoted lieutenant in 1815. He served in operations agains ...1827-32), and then as political agent (1832-40). In his relations with the Sikh Government, Wade balanced the interests of the two States in such a manner
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• Soldier Fateh Singh
  ...ngh''' (d. 1875), son of Nidhan Singh Hathu, was a soldier in the Sikh army and was attached to his father's contingent wherein he remained until 1827 3. Gupta, Hari Ram, Punjab on the Eve of the First Sikh War. Chandigarh, 1955
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• Alexander Gardner
  ...:Andrew gardiner.gif|thumb|300px|left|Andrew Gardner, served in the Khalsa Army]] According to a story at Sikh Sangat.org /Jan 21, 2007:
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• Bishan Singh, adopted son of Jamadar Khushal Singh
  ...He received his education at the Ludhiana Mission School across the Anglo-Sikh frontier. In 1848, when stationed at Pind Dadan Khan, Bishan Singh was orde
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• Battle of Aliwal
  ...ictory which is sometimes regarded as the turning point of the First Anglo-Sikh War. ...the Punjab. Eventually, the increasingly turbulent Khalsa, the army of the Sikh kingdom, was goaded into crossing the Sutlej River and invading British ter
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• Mayya Singh
  ...a in Amritsar district of the Punjab. He was a horseman of the Sikh army, fought in the battle of Ramnagar on 22 November 1848 and joined, thereafte ...cipated in the battles of Sa'dullapur and Gujrat. After the defeat of the Sikh forces, Mayya Singh was in Bhai Maharaj Singh's train at Dev Batala
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• Ganda Singh
  ...ngh's troops. Ganda Singh's father, Dharam Singh, had also served in the army and taken part in several battles including those of Multan, Kashmir and
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• Punjab insurgency
  ...age. After the division of Punjab on linguistic purpose, Punjab received a Sikh majority for the first time. ..., Sikhism's most holy shrine, in Amritsar. The operation undertaken by the army was codenamed Operation Bluestar. Most Sikhs inside the complex were killed
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• General JJ Singh
  ...SIngh 1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|{{C|'''[[General JJ Singh]], Chief of Indian Army'''}}]] ...oginder Jaswant Singh''' (b. 17 September 1945) is the first Sikh Chief of Army Staff of [[India]].
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• Chittisinghpura murder of Sikhs : Letter from SAD (A)
  ...cellency regarding the human right and fundamental right violations of the Sikh peoples in India, I have now come to gather more proof and evidence of the ...7RR at Rampura, a distance of 3 kilometers from Chittisinghpura where the Sikh massacre took place.
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• COURT AND CAMP OF RANJEET SINGH
  ...f the Sikh army carries the suggestion that it was inferior to the British army, though superior to the forces of other princes of India. The book contains
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• June 17
  ...zed, Sikhs men wore black turbans while Sikh women used black dupatas. All Sikh houses went without lighting any cooking. Baba Harbans Singh Ji from Delhi [[1984]]: Supreme Sikh Council decided to demolish the damaged Akal Takhat and to allocate the Kar
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• Mumbai Terror Attack Nov 2008 / Sikhs offer food to security forces
  ...om/India/Sikh_youths_offer_food_to_security_forces/articleshow/3774023.cms Sikh youths offer food to security forces] 30 Nov 2008, TNN About 20 to 25 young Sikh men, volunteering for Gurudwara Shri Dashmesh Darbar in Sion, saw the chill
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• Hemkunt sahib during the Uttrakhand floods disaster 2013
  ...first hand the bravery, untiring faith and absolutely calm approach of the Sikh Sangat and how they handled the calamity. We saw how [[Sangat]] members fix ...ere emerged a small ray of hope , a great positive story of about 4000 odd Sikh Pilgrims trapped at 11,000 ft at [[Gobind Dham]] or Ghagharia for more than
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• Highly Distinguished Sikhs (Modern Era)
  * [[Master Tara Singh]] - celebrated Sikh hero leader and famous Sikh Indian independence movement leader * [[Pratap Singh Kairon]] - celebrated Sikh political leader, Indian independence movement leader
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• Travels in Kashmir and the Punjab
  ...s into three main parts the careers of the Ten Gurus, the establishment of Sikh misis or confederacies and the rise of the Sukkarchakkias under Ranjit Sing ...he manages his horse with the greatest ease" (pp. 38081). He outlines the Sikh ruler's policy :
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• Gobindgarh fort handed over
  '''[http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/12871/38/ Army to handover Gobindgarh Fort, Amritsar, to Civil admin]''' ...s a magnificent historical moment in the history of the Holy City when the Army would hand over Fort Gobindgarh to the civil administration.
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• Battle of Chillianwala
  The '''Battle of Chillianwala''' was fought during the Second Anglo-Sikh War in the Punjab, now part of Pakistan. Although the battle may be conside ...ulraj and Sher Singh had no aims in common. Sher Singh decided to move his army north, to join that of his father, General Chattar Singh Attariwalla, who h
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• Chhota Ghallughara
  ...launched an all-out campaign against the Sikhs and set forth with a large army. The Sikhs were brought to bay in a dense bush near Kahnuwan, in the Gurdas ...indiscriminate and extensive was the killing that the campaign is known in Sikh history as the Chhota Ghalughara or the lesser holocaust only because a sti
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• European Adventures Of Northern India
  ...chi. It also deals with certain aspects of the organization of the Khalsa army and the role of its European officers in introducing western methods of dri ...Kurdish districts, came to Lahore in 1826, and secured a rank in the Sikh army through the good offices of Ventura. He also held civil appointments and pr
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• Akhbarat-I-Singhan
  ...l checked the record of the income from revenue and the expenditure on the army. Reports from Bannu and Kohat were presented and instructions by the Genera
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• Jasvant Rao Holkar
  ...e Khalsa was held to decide what Ranjit Singh might do to help Holkar. The Sikh ruler was counselled against engaging in an armed conflict with the British
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• Kashmiri Pandits at Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Darbar
  ...eaty which was concluded between the Sikhs and the British after the First Sikh War. Later on a council was constituted in December 1846 for the governance ...he Maharaja's Fauji-khas which was considered to be the flower of the Sikh army. He was assisted by a Kashmiri Pandit, the son of Pandit Ganga Ram by name
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• Sir Hugh Gough
  ...he Duke of Wellington. He came to India in 1837, and, after serving in the army in various capacities, became the CommanderinChief in 1843. under him in the first Sikh war, was highly critical of Gough's conduct of operations at Alival, Feroze
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• Karamjeet Singh Judge
  ...s old, and a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sham Singh Atarivala
  ...of Peshawar, Attock and Multan. He also fought in Kashmir in 1819. He led Sikh forces against Sayyid Ahmad of Bareilly who had during the years 182631 ...ing to 35,00,000 rupees which he had carted away fromJasrota to Jammu. The army under Sham Singh reached within 10 km of Jammu and obtained from Gulab Sing
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• Sikh Military
  ...ervice. Whether in the British Indian Army or the post-independence Indian Army, Sikhs have always been disproportionately represented martially. ...articularly more warlike than any other ethnic group, it's undeniable that Sikh troops have consistently proved their mettle.
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• Fateh Singh Ke Jathe Singh
  ...t Singh Nihang]</ref> The saying expresses the authority of preaching of [[Sikh]] religion by Fateh Singh "troops". The saying is common among [[Nihang]] S ...ef> Jathedar Chet Singh uses this phrase for Nihang Jathebandhi who preach Sikh philosophy.
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• Claude Auguste Court
  ...in British territory, and, ultimately securing his discharge from the Sikh army, proceeded with his PUNJABI wife and the children to France in 1844. He pur 1. Lafont,J.M., La Presence Francaise dans Ie Royaume Sikh dii Penjab 1822-1849. Paris, 1992
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• Sikh population
  ...htra]], [[Uttarakhand]] and [[Jammu and Kashmir]]<ref>Break down of Indian Sikh population by Indian States/Union territories [http://www.censusindia.net/r ...tp://www.springerlink.com/content/p726g4t656018333/]</ref>. Semiskilled Sikh artisans were well represented in those who were transported from the Punj
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• Nur-ud-din Bamzai
  Nodh Singh was the leader of Sukharchakia Misal when the sikh misals were created as a part of the Dal Khalsa in 1748. Charat Singh born ...ia, Ahmad Shah Abdali crossed the river Indus on October 25, 1759, with an army of about 60,000 men. In the battle of Panipat, fought on January 14, 1761,
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• Hisab e Afwaj Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  ...pay, organization and composition of the different branches of the Sikh army and its accounts. ...f the topkhana or arsenals. The regimental staff of the regular Slate paid army consisted of generals, colonels, kumedans or commandants, ajltans or adjuta
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• India Secret Poceedings
  ...es and correspondence of the NorthWest Frontier Agency from the heyday of Sikh political power in the Punjab down to the annexation of the Punjab in ...orts, minutes and memoranda relating to the first AngloAfghan war and the Sikh cooperation in the British military operations on the Khaibar, especially
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• Joginder Jaswant Singh
  ...oginder Jaswant Singh''' (b. 17 September 1945) is the first Sikh Chief of Army Staff of India. ...se as at the time of his appointment he was the most senior officer in the army after General Vij.
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• Dalip Singh
  '''DALIP SINGH - FIRST SIKH AT THE OLYMPICS''' To the late Brigadier Dalip Singh goes the credit of being the first Sikh to represent India in the Olympics. The 1924 Olympic Games were held in Par
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• SIKHS AND THE SIKH WARS : THE RISE, CONQUEST, AND ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB STATE
  '''SIKHS AND THE SIKH WARS : THE RISE, CONQUEST, AND ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB STATE''', by Gen ...e interests of the British empire required that they be subjugated and the Sikh dynasty,destroyed.
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• Desa Singh Majithia
  Army General and Civil Administrator ...successor of Amar Singh Bagga, for a number of years before joining the [[Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh]].
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• Fatehnama Guru Khalsa Ji Ka
  ...well as for the Khalsa. His appraisal of the role of the Maharaja in the Sikh body politic is highly perceptive. For him Ranjit Singh was the leader o
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• Laila
  ...auty and grace, was originally owned by Yar Muhammad Khan Barakzai, the Sikh tributary governor of Peshawar. It was much coveted by Maharaja Ranjit Si ...orse and the Sikh emissary returned to Lahore emptyhanded. In 1826, a Sikh army commanded by Buddh Singh SandharivalTa marched to Peshawar to seize the hor
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• Akali Dal
  '''Akali Dal:''' The words literally mean the "eternal army". It is also the of the abbreviated name of main political party of Sikhs i ...tionalism. The basic philosophy of Akali Dal is to give political voice to Sikh issues (Panthic cause) and it believes that religion and politics go hand i
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• Akali Baba Hanuman Singh
  Akaali Baba Hanuman Singh Ji’s tenure as Jathedar of the Sikh nation came as the Panth was experiencing a very critical time. In 1839 the ...that time the Empress of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab, the most, trusted Sikh general Sardar Sham Singh Attarivala came to the holy city of Amritsar and
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• Hukma Singh Chimni
  ...fter the death of his father, Hukma Singh was admitted into Ranjit Singh's army and took part in the Kasur expedition of 1807. He soon won the favour of th ...Peshawar, made an attempt to reoccupy Attock, Hukma Singh drove the Afghan army from the fortress and plundered the retreating host.
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• Shahid Misl
  ...kht Sri Damdama Sahib|Damdama Sahib]] before being incorporated into the [[Sikh Empire]] of the [[Sukerchakia Misl]] by [[Ranjit Singh]]. ...mpire]] at some point in the early 19th century and became a part of the [[Sikh Empire]]. The [[Nihang]] order of [[Sikhs]] maintains the traditions of thi
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• First Sikh officer in Pakistan Army
  ...|thumb|300px|right|{{c|GC Harcharn Singh wearing turban as required by his Sikh faith}}]] ...ce the country’s inception. Though, many [[Christian]]s have served in the army.
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• 1984
  ...to 6]]''', [[1984]]. This tragic event took place over 25 years ago and [[Sikh]]s all over the world will remember this episode with great sadness. ...India, {{w|Indira Gandhi}}. At the time of the operation, close to 100,000 army troops had been deployed throughout [[Punjab]].
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• Janam Asthan Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa, Kasayra Bazaar
  ...ibe. He was one of the outstanding generals in the service of Rant Singh's army who fought and won many battles for Maharaja Ranjit Singh. He laid down his
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• News on Operation Bluestar
  ...MP%20shames%20Indian%20Parliament%20on%20Operation%20Bluestar%20awards.htm Sikh MP shames Indian Parliament on Operation Bluestar awards] by Parmeet Pal S ...n for Minorities in India, asked why were gallantry awards given to Indian Army officers after Operation Bluestar. "They were given because they had killed
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• Mohan Singh
  ...Mohan Singh Deb (1909-1989) was famous for his part in the Indian National Army for the liberation of India from British rule, in which he held the rank of ...e passed his high school, he joined the 14th Punjab Regiment of the Indian army in 1927. After the completion of his recruits training at hrozpur, Mohan Si
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• Khalsa Kaal Purakh Ki Fauj
  ....jpg|thumb|300px|right|Baba Deep Singh draws his line in the sand with his Sikh Saint-Soldiers]] Khalsa is God's army. Khalsa is sustained by the Will of the Almighty<br><br></center>
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• Diwan Amar Nath
  ...'' (1822 - 1867), bakhshi or paymaster of the irregular forces of the SIKH army who distinguished himself also as a historian, was born in 1822 the son of 3. Gupta, Hari Ram, Panjab on the Eve of First Sikh War. Chandigarh, 1956
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• Baintan Sher Singh Kian
  ...some gruesome events from the history of the Sikhs murders in 1843 of the Sikh monarch Maharaja Sher Singh, his young son Partap Singh, and minister Dhian The poet traces Sher Singh's unpopularity among the army to dismissal by him of some old soldiers a few among whom had been serving
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• Jangnama Singhan te Firangian
  ...st significance lies in the multiple treatment given to the decline of the Sikh kingdom after Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death in 1839. ...of survival to manipulate a war between the Sikh soldiery and the English army. He is successful in his design and the second part of the composition, run
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• Jathedar Teja Singh Akarpuri
  ...e 24th Sikh Battalion of the Indian Army the following year. Leaving the Army, he became a patvanin the revenue department of the Punjab at the end of 5. Sahni, Ruchi Ram, Struggle for Reform in Sikh Shrines, ed., Ganda Singh. Amritsar, n.d
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• Sardar Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...ttariwala]] and General Ratan Singh Mann followed separetely the main Sikh army under Ranjodh Singh. The fortress was reduced and Gulab Singh was obliged t ...the first Anglo-Sikh war Ranjodh Singh commanded a division of the Khalsa army with 70 guns. He entered the Jalandhar Doab, and having joined his forces w
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• Beant Singh & Satwant Singh
  ...dira Gandhi at her residence in revenge for her order to command the India Army into the sacred precinct of the [[Golden Temple]] in [[Amritsar]]. ...Gandhi}} was motivated by [[Operation Blue Star]], an attack by the Indian Army on the holy [[Golden Temple]] complex in [[Amritsar]], [[India]]. [[Satwan
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• River Hansa
  After the City was taken by the Sikh army lead by Banda Bahadur the river channel that ran near the Burj was cursed
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• Battle of Gujarat
  ...February 21, 1849, between British forces and the Sikhs. The depleted Sikh army, weakened by lack of supplies, was defeated by the Bengal and Bombay Armies ...he Durbar (court) in Lahore and Agents in several of the regions. The Sikh Army, the Khalsa, was kept in being and used to keep order in the Punjab and Nor
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• Operation Shanti
  ..., mountain guns and helicopter gunships, although more than 5,000 innocent Sikh men, women and children perished in the operation. ...e subjected to massive aerial bombardment, apart from being slaughtered by army and para military forces. The Sikhs all over India were to be subjected to
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• Rajouri Muslims say Sikhs causing them anguish
  ...nly the claims of the Muslims have been published--we have yet to hear the Sikh version of this story. ...ties and used even the dead animals carcases and blood to defile Hindu and Sikh temples, but while the newspapers of India and Jammu tell stories of the ar
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• Javand Singh Mokal
  ...er, Thakur Singh, held a minor command. Javand Singh joined the Sikh army as a trooper. He was placed under Diwan Muhkam Chand and took pan in the
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• Gian Singh, Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  He was 24 years old, and a Naik in the 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Maharaja Hari Singh Dhillon
  ...s is still remembered with much affection by the Sikh community today. His army became the most popular to join due to his tireless defense of Amritsar. ...idered to be one of the greatest honors given, in the 18th century, to any Sikh.
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• Bagh Singh Virk
  ...pted the Maharaja's sovereignty and was appointed to command a unit of the army with a grant of jagir amounting to one and a half lakh of rupees, consistin
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• Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  ...ns. From 1843 to 1846, he was resident in Nepal. In 1846, after the first Sikh war, Lord Hardingc appointed him agent at Lahore and, after the treaty o ...he Sikh soldiers and recommended their wholesale enlistment in the British army. Thus he sought to pacify the common mass of the disbanded soldiery and att
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• Miri, definition
  ...m in reference to Political unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan (once a part of the Sikh Raj during the rule of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]) titled, ''Political unres ...community (religious) as part of his court and as commanders of the Khalsa army.
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• Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan
  [[Image:SikhPilgrimageToPakistan.jpg|thumb|300px|right|{{c|'''Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan - Illustrated Guide'''}}]] '''Sikh Pilgrimage to Pakistan - Illustrated Guide'''
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• Pre-Independence : Sikhs Contribution to Freedom & Promises Made
  In the Indian Liberation Army, out of the 20,000 ranks and officers, 12,000 (60%) were Sikhs. ...itish negotiated for the transfer of power. However, due to inadaquency of Sikh leadership, misplaced trust and false promises made by Gandhi and Nehru, th
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• Bibi Naseera
  ...sister of [[Said Khan]] who became a highranking officer in the [[Mughal]] army. She confronted Said Khan in the persecution of the Gurus. She was married [[category:Famous Sikh Women]]
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• Prem Pal Singh
  ...Air Force on the ground. Led by Wing Commander Prem Pal Singh himself, Pak army camp east of Gujarat and airfields at Chaklala, Dab, Murid, Akwal, Risalwal The squadron gave close support to the army in Kasur, Khem Karan, Pasrur, Chawinda and Sialkot sectors. Bombs were drop
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• The Sant syndrome
  The role of Sants (holymen) in the development of the [[Sikh]] tradition in the post-Guru period has been remarkably significant. The st ...g state). He attempted to introduce the ritual of self-immolation into the Sikh traditions and even had an '''agan-kund''' (a brick structure for burning a
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• Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew
  ...f the Bengal army, the new governor designate Kahn Singh, and an escort of Sikh troops from Lahore. ...ul Raj, inviting the people to rise against the British. The same day, the Sikh escort from Lahore rebelled. Kahn Singh made terms for himself.
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• CAROLINE FEZLI AZAMJOO COURT
  ...shmir on 13 June 1821, married Claude Auguste Court, a general in the SIKH army, by 1836. They had three children by the time they left the Punjab in 1843.
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• Jean Baptiste Ventura
  ...ian born in Finale Emilia. Born to Jewish parents he served in Napoleon's army as a colonel of infantry and had taken part in the battle of Wagram (1809), ...ent by Maharaja Ranjit Singh and enstrusted with the task of organizing Sikh infantry on European lines.
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• Bhai Binod Singh
  ...] fought in May 1710. Binod Singh commanded the left wing of Banda Singh's army. He was pitched against [[Sher Muhammad Khan]] of [[Malerkotia]] who was co ...ained at [[Amritsar]]. He was taken to [[Gurdas Nangal]] in the [[Mughal]] army to fight on their side. There he tried to retire without fighting. No soone
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• George Broadfoot
  ...scort, however, proved imaginary, but his conduct had given offence to the Sikh Darbar. Broadfoot had come to the Sikh frontier with the set policy of inciting antagonisms
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• Parkash Singh
  He was 29 years old, and a Havildar in the 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Sir Frederick Currie
  ...an of great resolution and the British feared that she might sway the Sikh army against them. Currie implicated her in a fictitious plot, had her allowance 1. Hasrat, B.J., Angfo-Sikh Relations. Hoshiarpur, 1968
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• Zafarnama I Ranjit Singh
  ...re and was personally acquainted with most of the influential men at the Sikh court. The Zafarnamah-i-Ranjit Singh, as edited by Professor Sita Ram K ...eg and Ilahi Bakhsh, the latter of whom rose to the rank of general in the Sikh artillery. Part IV is a long dedicatory poem in honour of the Maharaja.
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• Patrick Agnew
  ...ul Raj, inviting the people to rise against the British. The same day, the Sikh escort from LAHORE rebelled. Kahn SINGH made terms for himself. In the even
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• Sardar Jawahir Singh Aulakh
  ...h appointed prime minister on 14 May 1845. He later was killed by the Sikh army, because of serious rift between them in 1845, in front of Maharani Jind Ka
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• Ranjodh Singh Majithia
  ...gh Atarivala and General Ratan Singh Man followed separately the main Sikh army under Ranjodh Singh. The fortress was reduced and Gulab Singh obliged to su ...n the first AngloSikh war Ranjodh Singh commanded a division of the Khalsa army with 70 guns. He entered theJalandhar
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• Beant Singh
  ...temporal seat [[Akal Takhat]], killings of hundereds of civilians in this army attack and killings of Sikhs in the countryside afterwards. ...h community, which claimed that the attacks were pre-planned and that anti-Sikh violence which followed was government orchestrated. Beant Singh and [[Satw
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• Operation Woodrose the follow up
  ...rone with weapons undreamed of in the days in which its builder, the first Sikh Guru to ever call for any arming of the Sikhs had asked for [[Miri and Piri ...rrounded his place of torture) were massa­cred by th eforce sof the Indian Army.
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• Dasaunda Singh
  ...e Khalsa initiatory rites at the hands of Diwan Darbara Singh, a prominent Sikh leader of the post Banda Singh period. By 1734, Dasaundha Singh was a leadi ...a reserve force at Amritsar, used to act as standard-bearers of the Khalsa army. Hence the name (nishan = flag or standard; vali= owning or unfurling). In
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• FRANCIS JOHN CANORA
  ...ad defied the governor`s authority by raising Muslim levies to destroy the Sikh brigade stationed in the Fort. When James Abbott, accompanied by Muslim mer
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• Radhasoami Beas Secret History
  ...asked him privately to go to the Punjab and preach sant mat. Jaimal was an army soldier on yearly leave at the time. There is no evidence at all Swami Ji t ..., but did not give the date. But, it could not have been 1856, as the 24th Sikh did not come into being until late 1857, after the Sepoy Uprising
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• Guru Har Gobind, a list of related articles
  ...ind]] was nominated by his father, [[Guru Arjan]] as the sixth Guru. The [[Sikh]]s celebrate this auspicious day, every year, on ''' July 5th'''. It is rel ''' ''“Let him sit fully armed on the throne and maintain an army to the best of his ability.”'' '''
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• Sikh Artillery of the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  ...nnon detail.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Detail of Captured Sikh Cannon, from the Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. photo courtesy Neil Carleton]] ...ph also called Zamzama, once Shah Durrani's cannon, the best place to see Sikh artillery is at 'Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum' in London which di
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• Brahm Gian
  ...e of Guru and sangat in realizing the Divine are discussed in the light of Sikh tenets and explained with illustrations from Sufi and Vedantic texts. The l
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• Bhai Tiloka
  ...not your mind be touched by violence." Tiloka received initiation as a Sikh and went back to Ghazni. One day, as says Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Bhai Tiloka Ji was a great warrior. As a warrior, he was appointed an army officer with a personal squad of the local ruler of Ghazni.
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• CHANNAN SINGH
  ...Fateh Singh "s constant companion and helpmate in his campaign for opening Sikh schools and preaching the word of GURU NANAK. This work was confined mainly
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• SIR JAMES ABBOTT
  .... His acts provoked the Hazara revolt which culminated in the second Anglo-Sikh war. James Abbott wrote The Narrative: An Account of Personal Sendees at Ha
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• Bhai Mallu Saahi
  ...gad Dev]] Ji. The warrior Bhai Mallu Saahi was a soldier in the [[Mughal]] army. He must have thought that it was not good to work under foreigner ruler. P
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• Narain Singh
  ...ianvala and Gujrat, and was assigned to procuring grain for the Khalsa army. After the battles, Bhai Maharaj Singh had moved to Jammu region and th
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• Gurdwara Dumal Garh Sahib, the Khalsa flag shall never fall
  ...shall never fall or get lowered. It will be a part of the turban of every Sikh leader. ...this incident the tradition of farra became a part of the turban of every Sikh leaders. Now, this tradition is no more in practice except with the Nihangs
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• Ram Singh Chappewala
  ...ttle the disturbed district. Ram Singh was instrumental in arousing the Sikh force stationed in Dalipgarh Fort at Bannu to rebellion in 1848. The force
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• Damdami Taksal
  ...as had an unbroken lineage of Jathedars who have led the Taksal throughout Sikh history. ...udents to undergo rigorous studies, meditations and seva, thus a wholesome Sikh lifestyle is developed and maintained.
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• A.S.Vaidya
  ...26 - 10 August 1986) was the 13th Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) of the Indian Army. ...le to push through the lane and quickly deploy itself to meet the Pakistan Army's counter-attacks.
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• Baba Bir Singh
  ...y day. Such was the influence Baba Bir Singh had acquired that a volunteer army of 1,200 musket men and 3,000 horse attended upon him. ...en asylum at Bir Singh's dera. Bir Singh's camp had become the centre of a Sikh revolt against the Dogra dominance over the Punjab.
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• Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda clash at Sirsa
  ==Second Sikh Martyr in Sikh-Dera Clashes== ...rsa's Deputy Commissioner V. Umashankar. As the melee was taking place a Sikh named Mandar Singh of Dabwali was killed in the clash. Members of each grou
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• Jay singh-sohal
  ...gy" brand of awareness programmes designed to inform and educate about the Sikh Turban. These include the 2009 documentary "Turbanology: After 7/7" and th ...2009. Titles to date include the Sikhs@War series, short films about the Sikh contribution during the World Wars which are available for free use via the
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• Shranagat Kaur
  [[Image:BraveWoman.jpg|thumb|150px|Brave Sikh woman travels alone through the forest.]] ...n the Pathan country on the west of the [[Punjab]]. The area was under the Sikh Raj and ruled by General [[Hari Singh Nalwa]]. After a happy marriage, she
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• Poonch
  ...der the Jammu Parliamentary constituency. The border is manned by both the Army and the BSF. The literacy rate in this district is 22.87 per cent - male 32 Muslims(%) 200000(90) Hindus(%)15000(6.8) [[Sikh]]s(%)7300(3.3) Others(%)23(.01)
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• Amir ul Imla
  ...iq''', a collection of miscellaneous letters, in Persian script, mostly of Sikh chiefs of the Punjab addressed to one another on subjects relating to priva ...sive designs of Ranjit Singh who, he says, "inspired by his high position, army, artillery and treasury, wishes to place the whole of the Punjab under his
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• Lashkar militant admits killing Sikhs in Chittisinghpura
  ...kistan]]i militant, arrested in connection with the March massacre of 35 [[Sikh]]s in [[Chittisinghpura]] in Kashmir, has admitted to his being a member of ...oney. He took part only in two attacks before Chittisinghpora -- one on an army outpost and the other on a bus carrying soldiers.
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• Sikh Coalition
  {{p|Image:Sikh Coalition logo.gif|}} ...or all organizations and individuals as well as a point of contact for the Sikh people.Contents
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• Sikh Confederacy
  ...As the Sikh Army (Dal Khalsa) grew new regions where administered and new Sikh barons came to the fore and the number of large misls eventually increased ...Sikh Confederacy would eventually in the 19th century be superseded by the Sikh Empire but its influence would still remain strong throughout the Empire's
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• Var Hari Singh Ki
  ...ew of the last pages are missing, the work comes to an end with the Sikh army ...s a man who is pious and philanthropic by nature and who has deep faith in Sikh tenets.
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• Mass Murder of the Sikhs in Kashmir
  ...f the small Sikh village of Chati Singhpora, "armed men, dressed in Indian army uniforms entered the village". ...) : "The Hindu, daily newspaper, reported that the murderers in the Indian army uniforms chanted ‘Jai Hind, Aaj Hamarai Holi Hai," (Victory for India, to
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• Southall
  ...edly recruited to work in a local factory owned by a former British Indian Army officer. This South Asian population grew due to the closeness of expanding ...ll|Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha]], which opened in 2003, is the largest [[Sikh temple]] outside of [[India]].
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• Akbar Khan Muhammad
  ...Khaibar Pass. An attack led by Akbar Khan was repulsed, though the valiant Sikh general, [[Hari Singh Nalua]], was killed in the action. ...suffered. The massacre caused an outrage in London. The next year a larger army was sent to exact retribution.
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• How the Sikhs Freed Multan
  ...ize Multan and place it under his imperial rule. He developed an enormous army to help him achieve his goal. The [[Sikhs]] felt duty-bound to oppose him, At this moment, a soul-stirring incident was recorded by the non-Sikh Ghulam Jilani in his work, ''"Jang-i-Multan"'':
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• Jhanda Singh
  ...er, Jhanda Singh was involved in constant warfare and feud with the oilier Sikh chiefs. He was killed in 1774 when embroiled in a battle with the Kanhaiyas ...te feud. His son, Javala Singh (d. 1847), served for some time in the Sikh army on the frontier at Bannu and Kohat.
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• Diwan Moti Ram
  ...returned to Lahore and was assigned to protocol duties. He accompanied the Sikh mission to wait on Lord Amherst, the GovernorGeneral of India, when he came
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• Waqia - e - Jung - e - sikhan
  ...e Khalsa College, Amritsar. Diwan Ajudhia Parshad (d.,1870) had served the Sikh State both as soldier and civilian since the days of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. ...East India Company strengthening the frontier with additional troops, the Sikh soldiers apprehended danger. They also suspected that those at the helm of
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• General Sardar Gurmukh Singh Lamba
  ...om the Ghakhar Chief Nur Khan, father of Fazil Dad Khan in 1825. When Sikh army under general Tara Chand was defeated on way to Bannur by Dilasha Khan, the ...ar Singh as military and civil Commander to dconsolidate the gains of Sikh Army & the Fort of Jamrud, area leading to Khber Pass. Where Sardar Hari Singh
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• Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh
  ...h expansion in India. He was the Sikh Akbar, the Sikh Napoleon. His Khalsa army included European Officers, Panjabi Muslims, Rajputs, Poorbias and even an
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• Bhai Hari Singh (b. 1897)
  ...ns. He was a member of the village choir and recited with gusto ballads of Sikh martyrs. ...nwhile, his friend and mentor, Bhai Nand Singh, had also resigned from the army and returned home. Both received the Amrit - holy nectar, and set up a plat
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• Alamgir
  ...he 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The Guru was pursued by the [[Mughal Army]] and it was at this site where the Guru paused and rested, blessing this v
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• Sant Jawala Singh, Dera Santgarh
  ...letic build, he joined the army on 5 January 1907 as a soldier in the 35th Sikh Battalion. It was during his service at Rawalpindi that he came in contact Jawala Singh saw action in France during World War I, but resigned from the army on 1 January 1917 and Joined the Dera at Hoti Mardan to devote himself to
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• Chithi Singhpora Massacre
  ...d and are farmers on small scale. A few are working in different civil and army camps as labourers to earn, make both ends meet. No proper education is imp ...was done under the pretext of crack down by army. and Sikhs were told that army commanding Officer is calling them.
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• Diwan Muhkam Chand
  '''Diwan Muhkam Chand'''(1750 - 29 October 1814), a renowned Sikh army general of the early years of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign, was born aroun ...commanderinchief of his army. He had a major role in organizing the Sikh army on a regular basis and in the early territorial conquests of the young Maha
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• June 15
  ...Ji. This event marked the official declaraion of the sovereigntity of the Sikh nation. The Sikhs reject all other sovereignity and owed their allegiance t ...nnyt of the rulers of Delhi, to preserve Sikh sovereignity and to save the Sikh religion. He asked the sikhs to be fully armed because religion could not b
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• William Sampson Whish
  ...l commander of the British army under Lord Hugh Gough in the second Anglo-Sikh war, was born at Northwold, England, on 27 February 1787, the son of Richar ...e fall of Multan, Whish's division moved northwards to join Lord Gough's army. He reached Ramnagar on 13 February and took part in the battle of Gujrat
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• Himalayas
  ...lab Singh Dogra who as a trusted warrior of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Khalsa army was, in reward of his services, appointed Raja of Jammu by [[Maharaja Ranji Today the 'Dogra' fort built by [[Zorawar Singh]], any connection with the Sikh Empire is rarely if ever mentioned, has become a popular tourist attraction
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• 1984- Some true facts
  - Sikh leads made a lot of promises by Brahman- India, that if Sikh join India they will be Master Tara Singh & Baldev Singh the main Sikh leaders fell for it.
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• Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh - A Tribute
  ...e of a large number of entrants of that time from [[Punjab]] in the Indian Army thus proved only one point that but for the presence in large number of the ...in his eighties, was too youthful to shell out his reminiscences about the Army Chief General J. N. Choudhry's suggestion to realign his forces behind Beas
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• Amar Singh Majithia
  ...Hari Singh Nalva to Peshawar when the province was formally annexed to the Sikh kingdom. He was employed on outpost duty in this campaign and he had many a '''AMAR SINGH MAJITHIA''', soldier and administrator in SIKH times, called Amar Singh Kalan (senior) to distinguish him from his namesak
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• Bhai Atma Singh
  ...[[Nankana Sahib]] martyrs, was the son of Bhai Hira Singh, a [[Mazhabi Sikh]] of village Mustrabad in Gurdaspur district. The family later shifted to v ...War in 1914 and served in the 32nd Punjab Battalion. On release from the army in 1918, he cultivated closer association with Bhai Lachhman Singh and
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• Espanola
  ...the city of Española. While many of the members of our community practice Sikh and 3HO lifestyles, our ashram welcomes all faiths in the philosophy that a But today's Espanola is also home to a Sikh community that founded one of the largest and fastest growing security comp
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• Sajjan Singh Rangroot
  ...h Rangroot was a real-life Indian soldier who served in the British Indian Army during World War I. He was known for his bravery and leadership during the ...r I, he joined the British Indian Army and served as a soldier in the 15th Sikh Regiment. “Recruit” of English language, in colloquial Punjabi is spoke
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• Tuhfat Ul Albab
  ...y engagements concerning the relations of Gulab Singh of Jammu with the Sikh kingdom are also provided. The author, well versed in literature, history, ...Multan and of Chatar Singh and Sher Singh at Hazara, surrender of the Sikh army and annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions.
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• Sardar Rai Singh
  ...re going." Hearing this, the Governer said to Commander Nur Din, "Take the army to Meerankot immediately and bring Mehtab Singh here. If he is not there br ...ardar Rai Singh, after the fall of the Sikh Kingdom in 1849, were made the Sikh Sardars, of some villages, and given Jagirs, by the British.
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• Uppal
  ...iance to the Krora Singh misl.Bhai Shihan, an Uppal Khatri was a prominent Sikh follower during [[Guru Arjan]]'s life.
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• Sardar Lahina Singh
  ...d.1893) a military commander during Sikh rule in the Punjab, came of a Sikh family of Gharjakh, a village adjacent to the town of Gujranwala (now in Pa ...of the three sons of Kahn Singh and Kishan Kaur. As he grew up, he joined army service under Ajit Singh Sandhanvalia. He married Chand Kaur, daughter of H
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• CHET SINGH BAJVA
  ...Singh was the prologue to a longdrawn drama of intrigue and murder at the Sikh court.
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• Sikh Power in the Punjab
  Origin of Sikh Power in the Punjab and the Political Life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with ...character and policies of Ranjit Singh, his revenues, the strength of his army, etc. Also added to this little volume of 150 pages, is a 20 page appendix
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• When Romans met the Sikhs
  {{p3|File:Sikhs at war.jpg|Sikh soldiers in East Africa during World War II}} “Oh yes”, we said, “Of Course, we have a bigger army”, we said proudly.
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• Battle of Sobraon
  ...re completely defeated, making this the decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War. ...war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing disorder in the Sikh kingdom following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the
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• Second Battle of Panipat
  ...forces of Samrat Hem Chander Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, and the army of Mughal emperor Akbar, on November 5, 1556. ...nd himself a vendor of saltpetre at Rewari,[10] he rose to become Chief of Army and Prime Minister[11][12] under the command of Adil Shah Suri of the Suri
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• Jangnama Siu Gobind Singh ji ka
  ...he preceding parts of the poem. Towards the close, the poet being a devout Sikh begs for the blessing of the Guru whom he calls the saviour of the world ap [[Category:Sikh Literature]]
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• Sardar
  ...expansion of the fighting force of the Sikhs under the misls the number of Sikh sardars multiplied. During the reign of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and his s ...as sardarji, and it is customary to use sardar in place of “Mr.” before a Sikh name. Nihung Sikhs do not use ''Sardar'' word. They used either Khalsa or A
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• Josiah Harlan
  ...an assistant surgeon by the East India Company and attached to the British army then operating in Burma (1824). After the war, Harlan proceeded towards the In 1835, during the Peshawar campaign, Harlan and Faqir 'Aziz udDin were Sikh envoys sent to Dost Muhammad's camp for negotiations, a duty they performed
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• Karam Singh
  Karam Singh retired from Indian Army as Honorary Captain. He is survived by his wife Gurdial Kaur. He was enrolled in the 1st batallion of Sikh Regiment on 15 September 1941. Karam Singh fought for India in World War II
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• Dhilwan Kalan
  ...not openly support [[Guru Gobind Singh]] Ji during these testing times of Sikh history. ...and asked the Nawab Kapura Brar for his fort to fight the pursuing Mughal Army. Nawab fearing retribution refused the fort to the Guru. After refusal from
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• Sikhs Massacre averted on the visit of Obama
  SIKHS ACCUSE ARMY OF HARASSMENT ...urday against Army following alleged harassment of the members of minority Sikh community in Hutmurah village here last night. Police has registered a case
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• Operation Woodrose
  ...oks.google.com/books?ei=fbscS9P4OI7okwT8uenTCw&id=2-qGAAAAMAAJ&dq=woodrose+sikh&q=woodrose }}</ref> ...0204157 |page=72 }}</ref> Woodrose involved forced entry into thousands of Sikh homes, most of whose inhabitants had committed no crime<ref>{{cite book |ti
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• Bhinderanwale declared Martyr by Taksal
  ...ale was martyred at 8:45 am on June 6, 1984 while fighting with the Indian army at Akal Takht. ...nised by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), and few other Sikh bodies at the Diwan Hall of Gurdwara Manji Sahib in the SGPC complex, on th
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• Bhai Labh Singh Rajasansi
  Sardar Labh Singh, who killed three English men due to blasphemy against the Sikh religion; as far as Sardar Labh Singh was concerned he had sent these men t ...Ranjit Singh’s army. In 1849 when the British rule was in place then the Sikh Unit was abolished.
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• Shaheed Major Baldev Singh Ghumman
  ..., district Gurdaspur and here Major Baldev Singh finished his education at Sikh National College Qadian under the one of the best educators; Head Master Sa ...t was left saddened and shocked with the attack on Golden Temple by Indian Army in summer of 1984.
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• Joseph Davey Cuningham
  ...his successors, and was, at the time of the outbreak of the first [[Anglo Sikh War I|'''AngloSikh War (1845-46)''']], political agent in the state of Baha ...accounts, he went to the original sources and acquainted himself with the Sikh scriptures as well as with relevant manuscripts in Persian and Punjabi. The
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• Vadbhag Singh Sodhi
  ...Singh Ahluwalia, Kapoor Singh, Adina Baig and others, attacked the mighty army of Nassar Ali. In the ensuing battle, Nassar Ali was captured and later bur ...Afraid of Vadhbhag Singh, Adina Beg appealed to Jassa Singh of the Khalsa Army for mercy upon the civilians of Jalandhar(9)
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• Jatha
  ...g a herd, flock, group, multitude, troop, band or host, signifies in the [[Sikh]] tradition a ''''group of volunteers''' coming forth to carry out a specif ...he had to be a good horseman, because in guerrilla warfare, such as the [[Sikh]]s had to resort to against the superior might of the State, speed and mobi
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• Gurdwara Langar Sahib
  ...outh India. To bruise the mutiny he started to move towards south with his army and also asked Guru Ji to step with him. ...hib which was used as the place to cook and serve the langar for Guru Ji's army.
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• Harchand Singh Laungowal
  ...der Sant Jodh Singh, he studied Sikh theology and Sikh texts and practised Sikh music. His entry into punjabi politics was much later but the influence to ...There he raised a gurdwara in memory of the celebrated eighteenth-century Sikh scholarly personage and martyr, Bhai Mani Singh , who was native of Kaimbov
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• Bansavalinama Dasan Patshahian Ka
  ...anuals of Sikh code. But some of his assertions are not in conformity with Sikh belief and teachings. For example, he accepts the Gurus as incarnations of ...ell one in the Sikh Reference Library at Amritsar until it perished in the Army attack on the Golden Temple complex in 1984.
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• Lahore Councils of Regency
  ...rule was shortlived, as he and his deputy Pandit Jalla were killed by the Army on 21 December 1844. ...his Council represented a combination of elder statesmen of the Darbar and army generals. Maharani Jind Kaur acted with determination and courage in transa
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• Siege of Multan
  ...st a ruler imposed by the East India Company precipitated the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and January 22, 1849, when the last defenders surrendered. ...t was ruled by a Hindu vassal, Dewan Mulraj. In that year, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out, and was won by the British East India Company. There was an
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• Himmat Singh Jallevalia
  ...t of Mahalpur, in presentday Hoshiarpur district of the Punjab, joined the Sikh forces which conquered Sirhind province in 1764, and secured for himself th ...heirs subject to them providing of 180 horsemen for the Maharaja's Khalsa Army.
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• Dasaundha Singh
  ...e Khalsa initiatory rites at the hands of Diwan Darbara Singh, a prominent Sikh leader of the post Banda Singh period. By 1734, Dasaundha Singh was a leadi ...a reserve force at Amritsar, used to act as standard bearers of the Khalsa army. Hence the name (nishan = flag or standard; vali= owning or unfurling). In
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• Brutally Massacred: Kashmiri Sikhs
  ...000 -- Fourth orchestrated Sikh massacre in twenty-one months ------- Four Sikh girls murdered & six wounded in Poshkreeri village of the Kashmir valley -- ...Sikhs were murdered - Al Capone style - by government assassins in Indian army uniforms.
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• Bring me Arms and Horses
  ...hs to bring weapons and horses to him so as to strengthen his army. Here a Sikh brings a horse in His darbar.]] ...hip on his forehead. Let him sit fully armed on his throne and maintain an army to the best of his ability. Other than this, let him embrace the practices
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• July 1
  1918 Maharaja Ranjit Singh conquered Kashmir and combined it with Sikh State. ...Conference was attended by the socities of the eastern region. The Calgary Sikh Society, which was not on good terms with the federation, provided unqualif
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• Mahant Mul Singh
  ...he Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, he played an important role in Sikh religious affairs, though his affiliation to the Nirmala order was unambigu ...Svami Bhagat Singh of Pindi Gheb. Mul Singh familiarized himself with the Sikh texts. He then travelled to Amritsar where he formally accepted the discipl
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• Sir David Ochterlony
  ...aimed at establishing friendly relations with them and weaning them from [[Sikh/Maratha Relations|Maratha]] influence. ...ces in the region (1804-05) and recommended to his government to take the Sikh chiefs under its protection.
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• JATHEDAR ACHCHHAR SINGH
  ...Tara Singh guilty of having perjured his pledge and blemished thereby the Sikh tradition of religious steadfastness and sacrifice. They had no comments to 1. Sahni, Ruchi Ram, Struggle for Reform in Sikh Shrines. Ed. Ganda Singh. Amritsar, n.d.
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• Five Years In India
  ...e-de-camp to his uncle, General Sir Henry Fane, commander-in-chief of the army of the East India Company during late 1830's, is "a narrative of [the autho ...ief accepted the invitation. Henry Edward Fane, who accompanied him to the Sikh capital of Lahore, provides in his book a graphic description of the visit
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• General Harbakhsh Singh
  ==The Right Sikh at the Right Place at the Right Time== ...r of 1965. He was a calm, intelligent and brave Sikh soldier in the Indian Army. He served his people and nation in the tradition that has been established
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• Lieutenant Jasbir Singh Tatla
  '''Tatla is first turbaned Sikh regular officer in Canadian Air Force''' ...tever he selected would become the standard, setting a precedent for every Sikh who follows him into the service
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• Anokhe Amar Shaheed Baba Deep Singh
  The film portrays two major battles of Baba Deep Singh, who with his Sikh soldiers, warded off Ahmed Shah Abdali’s attempts to take looted gold, si ...nacted by Sikh women actors. The first cinemascope Punjabi feature film on Sikh history has been produced with a budget of Rs 2.5 crore.
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• Bhai Gurbakhsh Singh Nihang
  ...reserved in the Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until it perished in the Army action in 1984, and which is quoted by Singh Sahib Giani Kirpal Singh, he w "When the King and his army reached the Chakk (Amritsar), they did not see any [infidel] there. But a f
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• Ahmad Yar Khan Tiwana
  ...andavala, situated in the Mankera territory. On the withdrawal of the Sikh army, with some troops having been left behind under Jasvant Singh Mokal in Nurp
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• Gurdwara Sangrana Sahib
  ...n]] as the Governor of Punjab. Kuleej Khan kept [[Mukhlis Khan]] on as the Army's Commander. Once day some Sikhs while out hunting reached the boundary of ...k to the ground and the Sikhs ended up capturing the Royal Hawk. The Royal Army, already upset that the Sikhs were hunting in their private reserve, asked,
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• Sikhism in Burma
  ...of Sikh people living in Myanmar. On Sunday, February 27, my visit to the Sikh Gurudwara was arranged. The marble slab on the front wall narrates the hist ...Sikh soldiers settled in Burma the control of the Gurudwara passed to the Sikh Religious Council of Burma.
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• UMDAT UT-TWARIKH
  ...Singh, Nau Nihal Singh, Sher Singh and Duleep Singh and the abrogation of Sikh rule ; the second part (pages 56) is an account of the life of Prince Sher ...style, 'Umdat utTwarikh is a very comprehensive and important document on Sikh times. The manuscript copy, presented in 1831 to Captain Wade, the East Ind
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• Sikhs & Indian Independence
  15 August marks India's Independence Day and prolongs the suffering of the [[Sikh]]s. We are clear about our nationhood, but it is denied by the [[Indian]] S ==Sikh sacrifices for freedom==
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• Nikalsaini
  ...jrat and the pursuit of the enemy by Sir Walter Gilbert, the Khalsa (Sikh) army surrendered at Rawalpindi, and giving up their arms and receiving a gratuit ...they declared to he their guru. It should be borne in mind that during the Sikh rule it was by no means uncommon for faqirs to receive, through the good of
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• Abd Us Samad Khan
  ...ernor of Lahore in February 1713 charging him with the annihilation of the Sikh leader, Banda Singh Bahadur, who had raised a revolt in the Punjab. `Abd us ...cended from his mountain retreat in February 1715, Samad Khan assembled an army of Mughals, Pathans, Bundela Rajputs and the Rajputs of Katoch and Jasrota
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• Ajit Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...son of Dhian Singh, and his uncle, Suchet Singh, aroused a section of the army, and with General Avitabile`s crack battalions, they besieged the Fort on 1
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• Chola
  ...tunic, which was once very popular in India. Even today one can see Hindu, Sikh and Muslim ascetics and holy persons wearing a 'Chola'. The 'Chola' worn by Sikh saints is originally a Bengali Kurta with 'Kalis'.
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• Sikh Regiment
  ...Indian Army. It is currently the highest decorated regiment in the Indian Army and was at one stage the highest decorated regiment in the British Empire. The Sikh Regimental Centre is presently located in Ramgarh Cantonment, 30 km from th
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• Teja Singh Samundri
  ...ther's footsteps, he joined the army as a "Dafadar" in 22 Cavalry. But his army career lasted only three and a half years. He returned to his village which ...r taking interest in the Akali movement, he was one of the founders of the Sikh daily newspaper, the Akali. He organized public meetings to protest against
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• Sikhs around 1900
  ...] and came across the people of the Punjab. They began to understand the [[Sikh]]s and their unusual way of life. During this period, many books were writt *'''Second Sikh War in 1848 1849... ''' Author: Joseph Tahckwell, Other info: GEOGRAPHY. BI
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• When Sikhs captured the Red Fort
  ...y [[Ahmed Shah Abdali]] had made the [[Mughal Empire]] fragile and weak. [[Sikh]]s had emerged as a strong and powerful force in northern India. The Sikhs ...ats and the British sought his friendship, and, above all, he was a devout Sikh; amrit prachar was his passion.
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• A World War I Saga: When Sikhs saved French honour
  {{p3|File:Sikh soldiers in Paris WW1 in 1916.jpg|Sikh soldiers in Paris WW1 in 1916}} ...ry from 1915 as recorded in the chronicles of World War I. For 10 turbaned Sikh soldiers using six spare turbans, wriggled and dragged two boxes of mortar
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• July 5
  ...lways been a sanctuary for political refugees. It became the centre of the Sikh revolt against Dogra dominance over the Punjab. ...sh their authority, made their move in 1847. They deported Rani Jinda. The Sikh chiefs revolted, including Bhagwan Singh. He was welcomed by Sikhs saying "
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• Sant Karam Singh
  ...and spent most of his time in meditation. Upon the dissolution of the Sikh army after the annexation of the Punjab to British India in 1849, Karam Singh jo ...hen Karam Singh, it is said, heard of this strange occurrence, he quit the army.
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• Gurdwaras In Pune
  ...d 9.00 pm a special Bhandara program is observed. There are more than 250 Sikh families in this area and more than 1,500 people gather over here on this d ...rrounding it. The daily Puja too is conducted by a person appointed by the Army. He also follows the 'Adnyas' (orders) of his Guru and performs other relig
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• July 29
  ...view to restoring Sikhism to its pristine purity, preach the principles of Sikh religion by word of mouth, by publication of historical and religious books ...ovement which, however, brought about conflict with certain Pujaris of the Sikh shrines. Gradually, the Singh Sabhas constructed their own gurudwaras with
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• Lakhi Shah Vanjara
  ...Sikh Gurus]]. He was a trader and a contractor and supplier for the Mughal Army and supplied them with saddles, bridles(rakabs) and reins. He also traded i ...akhan Shah]] was a devout Sikh who was responsible for finding the ninth [[Sikh Guru]], ([[Guru Tegh Bahadur]]). The Lobanas fought in many battles with [[
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• Captain Amarinder Singh
  ...st Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala. He also served in the Indian Army from 1963 to 1966. In 1980, he won a seat in the Lok Sabha for the first ti ==Army career==
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• Bibi Sahib Kaur
  ...ntingent to relieve the besieged town and, assisted by the troops of other Sikh chiefs, she forced George Thomas to withdraw. [[Category:Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Rataul Encounter
  One of the most famous battles in the history of the modern Sikh Movement took place in the village of Rataul. Baba Manochahal and some comp ...r. They had decided to show the police what a real encounter was like. The army along with police divisions from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Batala
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• Subedar Joginder Singh
  ...her's name was Sher Singh Sahnan who belonged to an agricultural [[Saini]] Sikh family which had relocated to Mahla Kalan in Moga district from the village ...y]] and mortar fire, besides other weapons. The fierce resistance of the [[Sikh]] platoon, however, compelled the Chinese to fall back with heavy losses. B
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• Gurbux Singh Theathi
  In 1947 he joined the Indian Army on short service commission in the Army ordinance core. ...Sikh Festival held that year. His task was to paint 16 large paintings of Sikh Gurus and make a model of the Golden Temple in wood. The large pictures wer
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• Battle of Kartarpur
  ...ad arranged their troops on the four sides of the city before the imperial army chiefs advanced against them. The force, mostly of Pathans, was overpowered ...d my mind against you; but destiny misled you so much that you brought an army against me. It is your own acts of ingratitude and insolence that have led
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• Raja Lal Singh
  ...Sanghoi, in Jehlum district in West Punjab, entered the service of the Sikh Darbar in 1832 as a writer in the treasury. He enjoyed the patronage of ...were thus allowed to escape from there and form junction with Lord Cough's army at Ferozeshah. After the reverse at Ferozeshah, Lal Singh fled to Lahore an
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• Kerala's First Sikh Convert S. Bhupinder Singh
  '''Kerala's First Sikh Convert- Nintyone-year old Sardar Bhupinder Singh''' ...arapally is the only living Malayalee [[Sikh]] in Kerala. People call him "Sikh Chettan", that is, elder brother.
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• Labh Singh Saini
  ...examination from the high school there. In 1914, he took up service in the army as a clerk. For this reason, he was sometimes also known as Babu Labh Singh ...from 25 to 27 November 1944 at Jandiala, in Jalandhar district, a massive Sikh conference to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Shiromani Akali Dal. In 1
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• Dakkhani Sikhs
  ...ararigal. According to Captain A.H. Bingley, Sikhs A Handbook for Indian Army, 1918, their total number, evidently based on the 1911 census, was 4,637. ...ly immune to local influence. To quote Captain Bingley again, "The Dekhani Sikh is distinguishable from his Punjabi confrere by his dress, which is still m
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• Raja Churaman
  ...short span there were eighty villages under the Thoon state. There was an army of fourteen to fifteen thousand. Such a big army needed a lot of money. Churaman decided to gather booty from rich states of
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• Bibi Prem Kaur
  ...s. The Pathan Army heavily outnumbered the bravest battalion of the Khalsa Army, but these warrior lions of Guru Gobind Singh did not lose faith. United, l The future of the Sikh Empire, the Khalsa Raaj, depended on this battle. The Akalees marched upwar
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• The Eleven Sikh Bands
  ...en Sikh Bands before Maharaja Ranjit Singh, @ Sikh History.com [http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/misls.html] ...a''': Led by Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia , area of Jullundar Doab with an army of 10,000 regular horsemen. They held territory in the neighborhood of Kapu
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• Ishar Singh CV
  Ishar Singh was 25 years old, and a Sepoy in the 28th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Waziristan Campaign, India when the following deed took place fo [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Gerard Anstruther Wathen
  ...ir friends and benefactors. They are fondly remembered to this day by the Sikh community as the creators of their famous school. Their names still evoke ...of manual work. He implanted in the minds of the Sikh people the idea of a Sikh university.
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• IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL SIKH MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
  THE SIKH MOTHERS & THE FORTY SIKH MARTYRS ...turned their backs on Guru Sahib. "No Sikh mother shall own her son, nor a Sikh woman her man, who turns his back on the Guru. There is life in death with
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• Khushal Singh Singhpuria
  ...pulated under the efficient administration of Khushal Singh. With a large army of about twenty thousand horse and foot the petty chiefs of the area realiz ...ingh Bhangi and other chiefs, quickly put an end to the siege. The Patiala army, even with the aid of Nabha and Kaithal troops, failed in their attempt to
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• Sawan Mal
  ...with Hari Singh Nalwa, he was one of the top commanders in Ranjit Singh's army. As a general under Ranjit Singh, he wrested the 'subah'(province) of Multa ...in leading the revolt against the British to prevent the annexation of the Sikh Kingdom into East India Company territory. Diwan Sawan Mal's grandson, Harm
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• Gian Sampardai
  ...recite faultlessly, interpret and expound the Guru Granth Sahib and other Sikh religious texts. Sampradai denotes a sectarian system or school of thought ...ai Mani singh made a practice of performing katha, i.e. discoursing on the Sikh teaching expounding a give sabda with illustration form the lives of the Gu
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• Jugraj Singh Toofan
  ...inst the state. Howeve, Bhai Sahib always said that he want's to serve the Sikh panth and he does not care if that cost's him his life. He once in Nabha ja ...of Khalistan Libration Force, Bhai Avatar Singh Bramha and participated in Sikh struggle under his command. Jugraj Singh participated in planning and carry
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• Articles of faith
  ...ing Khalsa, these [[5Ks]] are a mandatory part of their faith; the tenth [[Sikh Guru]] compelled them to wear these 5 articles of faith at all times. ...hich is sometimes referred to as ''"Akal purakh ki fauj"'' or ''"God's own Army"'' fighting relentless battle against tyranny and suppression (adharam or a
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• US Pres. Nixon and Dr, Kissinger attempted to derail Azad Bangladesh
  In a war that saw many Sikh soldiers win awards for valor and even saw several Gurdwaras reopened for t ...involved. China declined and on 16 December the war ended with the Indian army and Bengali separatists taking Dhaka.
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• Gurdwara Harian Vailan
  ...e Sikhs during the eighteenth century, the other one being the Buddha Dal (army of the elders).It is situated in bajraur, 10 Km from [[Hoshiarpur]] near Ch ...Many Saini warriors were martyred from this village as part of the Khalsa army , earning the title of "Shahidan" or "Martyrs" for the village .
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• Baldev Singh
  '''BALDEV SINGH - FIRST SIKH DEFENCE MINISTER OF INDIA''' Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, who represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that resulted in the independenc
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• Harjit Singh Sajjan
  ...Afghanistan. Sajjan was also the first Sikh-Canadian to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment. ...n India, and is currently a member of the World Sikh Organization (WSO), a Sikh advocacy group. Harjit Singh, along with his mother and older sister, emigr
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• Bhai Ram Singh
  ...r the influence of a self-styled Guru Balak Singh and decided to leave the army. His Group saw many of the pratices of the Maharaja, his Darbar (Court) and [[category:Sikh Sects]]
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• Master Tara Singh
  ...ather Bakshi Gopi Chand was a village patwari and belonged to a Sehajdhari Sikh (Hindu) family. He took Amrit from Sant Attar Singh at the age of sixteen, Once the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Army impressed by the game, offered him a direct commission which he refused as
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• Baba Binod Singh
  ...nicles, Guru Gobind Singh made Baba Binod Singh the head of the [[Khalsa]] Army and is designated as first [[Jathedar]] of [[Budha Dal]].<ref>[http://www.n ...upon arrival in the Punjab. Binod Singh commanded the left wing of Khalsa Army in the Battle of Sirhind fought in May 1710. After conquest of the province
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• Gurdwara Baba Banda Singh Bahadur
  ...da Singh Bahadur. When the battle starts, he should join back to the Royal army. This way the Sikhs would be disappointed. ...ead & gun powder. Cannons & Elephants were also brought. Like this, with a army of approximately 20,000 & some Gazis, Wajir Khan started to move in order t
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• Maharaja Karak Singh
  ...mber 1840) was the eldest son of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]. Raised in the Sikh martial tradition he was , even as a child barely six years old, given the ...f Kharak Singh's friend, his former tutor, [[Chet Singh]] Bajwa, a trusted Sikh courtier. The Dogra brothers, Dhian and Gulab Singh Dogra were Rajputs, Hi
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• Kotkapura
  ...ne Di Dhaab; now a historic town) between Guru Gobind Singh and the Mughal army would have been fought at Kotkapura. However, Nawab refused the fort to the ...dkot Ryast being placed under his control after the British capture of the Sikh kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Raja Harinder Singh Brar was the last kin
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• Symbol of faith
  ...lives, and 1,09,045 were wounded while fighting as part of British Indian Army. During World War 1 in 1915, 14th Sikh was involved in intense hand-to-hand fighting at Gallipoli in Turkey. The b
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• Letter dated June 2 1984
  ...ruction of the [[Akal Takht]], the looting and destruction of the historic Sikh Reference Library by the military, the looting of the [[Toshakhana]] (the t ...for the last about two years now. [[File:1984-June2-84Doc.jpg|right]] The Sikh leadership has been exercising restraint in the hope that the government ma
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• Guruji Ke Sitfan Ki Katha
  ...he Sikh Reference Library at Amritsar until the Library perished in the army assault of 1984. The poem which, on the basis of internal evidence, was com
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• Battle Of Kargil
  ...Parliament had then arisen as one man to pay its respect to these gallant Sikh soldiers. Now, more than 102 years later, the entire nation has risen again ...ing in its fold the highest decorated "Battalion of Commonwealth"--- the 1 Sikh --- and the highest decorated soldier, Naik Nand Singh, who has the Mahavir
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• Thara Sahib (Bageshwar)
  ...i]] (the founder of the religion of [[Sikhism]] and the first of the [[ten Sikh Gurus]]) in 1500s. ...s supported by [[Kar-Sewa]] of Harbans Singh Ji. Since there is not much [[Sikh]] population in nearby area, this historical gurudwara is not much known b
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• Sa’id Khan
  ...id Khan''', a Mughal general, came in February 1703 at the head of a large army to invade Anandpur and force Guru Gobind Singh into submission. Guru Gobin His sister [[Bibi Naseera]] was a staunch follower of the Sikh Gurus.
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• The Sepoy Mutiny - 1857
  ...ingdom of Kashmir. In the years that followed the Anglo-Sikh wars of 1849, sikh armies were disbanded by the British and heavily recruited as soldiers in t ...ft the warriors were soon being asked to fill new regiments in the British army to keep the Afghans at bay.
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• Bhai Taloka
  ...u Arjan]] Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru. He was also a General in Nawab Gazni's army. Once Nawab called a meeting of senior officers including Bhai Taloka. He t
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• July 27
  ...rganization to represent Sikhs interests. They called themselves the World Sikh Organization. The objectives of the Convention were: to inform the international community in the clearest possible terms of Sikh aspirations and of the Indian government's perfidy,
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• Bhai Singha Purohit
  ...hism|Brahmin]] Verna, General of 6th Sikh Guru Hargobind, and A Practising Sikh Disciple of Guru Hargobind. ...er allow this to happen. Both sides were preparing for a showdown. A large army of Moghuls set out for Amritsar under Mukhlis Khan's command.
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• Samadh Baba Akali Phula Singh
  ...at Sarao family of Sardar Ishar Singh. He performed great services for the Sikh nation and gurdwaras by activating the Akali Dal. A tower built in his memo Akali Ji led the army of Ranjit Singh in many battles and emerged victorious. He martyred while f
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• Gurdwara Nirankari, Rawalpindi
  ...t 160,000 have already laid down their lives for this movement. The Indian army attacked Harmandar Sahib with tanks, guns and air force. As a result of thi
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• Vasakha Singh
  ...ur years, but he did not marry again. At the age of nineteen he joined die army which he left in 1907 to go to China. From China, he went on to the United Baba Vasakha Singh's was a revered name in Sikh piety. He led aJ'atha of 100 volunteers to court arrest in Guru ka Bagh mor
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• Diwan Bhavani Das
  ...re kingdom. Twice, in 1816 and 1817, he commanded a division of the Lahore army in the Multan expeditions. He also took part in the expeditions to Peshawar
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• Militants killed, as Sikh homes destroyed in Orakzai strikes
  '''Sikh homes/shops destroyed''' ...the hearts of these families who have since long taken shelter in several Sikh Gurdwaras of Pakistan, unfortunately now many families will have no homes
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• Bhai Gurbaksh Singh Shahid
  ...u Granth Sahib (then called the Adi Granth) by collecting hymns of all the Sikh Gurus before him. It is probably only in Sikhi that so many of the founding ...e Punjab of today might be like if not for the sacrifices of so many Great Sikh Warriors?.
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• Joseph Davey Cunningham
  ...nd his successors, and was, at the time of the outbreak of the First Anglo Sikh War in 1845, political agent in the state of Bahawalpur. He was summoned to ...accounts, he went to the original sources and acquainted himself with the Sikh scriptures as well as with relevant manuscripts in Persian and Punjabi. The
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• Bhai Arvinderjeet Singh ‘Goldy’
  The number of accounts of bravery by those of young age found in the Sikh history cannot be found in the history of the rest of the world. The strugg During that time, the state of Punjab was facing the wrath of the Indian Army in the form of Operation Blue Star. Even after Operation Blue Star, the sta
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• Jathedar Amreek Singh
  ...s not interested in studying any more. He had a great love for Gurbani and Sikh History. ...u should also be present". Then Bhai Amreek Singh walks towards the Guru's Army. As he was walking he was about to drink water to quench his thirst, when a
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• SVAMI ANANDGHANA
  ...the Sikh Reference Library, AMRITSAR, until the collection perished in the Army attack on the Golden Temple premises in 1984. Anandghana`s technique of wri 1. Nripinder Singh, The Sikh Moral Tradition. Delhi, 1990
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• Sardar Nanu Singh Saini
  '''Sardar Nanu Singh [[Saini]]''' was a Sikh army general and a well-known [[Jagir|jagirdar]] in [[Phulkian Misl|Phulkian riy ...b</ref> Nanu Singh [[Saini]] became among his most trusted lieutenants and army generals. As a reward of Nanu Singh Saini's help in his liberation from the
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• Udham Singh Nagoke
  ...But he stayed in the army only for a very short time. Irked by the strict army regimen, he took out his discharge in 1920. ...elease in 1926, he was again appointed Jathedar of Akal Takht. By then the Sikh Gurdwaras Act had been placed on the statute book. In the elections held un
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• Bhai Sahib Singh
  ...ar had been visited by [[Guru Nanak]] early in the sixteenth century and a Sikh shrine had been established there in his honour. '''Sahib Chand''', as Sahi ...eriously wounded by a shot from his musket following which the entire hill army fled the field. Sahib Singh was one of the five Sikhs who, on the Baisakhi
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh War Museum Ludhiana
  ...by the officials. Another gallery displays portraits and busts of Punjab’s army men who had fought and got laurels in the three wars in 1948,‘65, and ‘ ...luwalia, Nawab Kapur Singh, Talking Soldiers of Krishna, Gupta, Mughal and Sikh era. Muti-Media kiosks have been installed for detailed information.
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• Old News 2
  ...ommunity for portraying a Sikh Guru as a golfer on its cover. According to Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)}} ...ilgrims due to reach Pakistan Today.|NankanaSahib-225x300.jpg|Around 1,000 Sikh pilgrims are due to reach Pakistan today to attend 402nd death anniversary
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• Hari Singh Bhangi
  ...i which began to be ranked as the strongest among its peers. He created an army of 20,000 dashing youths, captured Parijvar in the Tarn Taran parganah and ...ter the massacre of the Sikhs at Kup, near Malerkotia, in what is known in Sikh history as the Vadda Ghallughara or the Great Killing (February 1762), Hari
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• Nirmal Singh
  ...ps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Indian Army. While serving in the Army, in 1958 he was responsible for an extensive study on equipment reliability ...peace and justice. He was invited to present a paper on the vision of the Sikh Gurus and Syed Nursi on the virtue of "contentment" in a conference convene
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• Later Sikh Rule and Kashmiri Pandits
  '''Later Sikh Rule and Kashmiri Pandits''' COL. Mian Singh turned a new leaf in the annals of Sikh Kashmir. On his arrival at Kashmir he found the affairs in a mess. Famine h
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• The forgotten history of Sikh troops in China
  Sikh regiments made their way to the foreign quarter “crawling through the Im ...hed to aid the besieged quarter, where 11 countries had set up legations. Sikh troops were also dispatched to guard churches and Christian missionaries,
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• Raghbeer Singh
  ...Group in Kirki, Puna. He stayed on for five years, then resigned from the Army in 1968 and moved to Patiala. ...i Raghbeer Singh on 14th December 1966 in Kirki, Puna, when I was doing my army service and was being transferred from Sagar (Madh Pradesh) to Training Bat
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• Sialkot
  ...ians, Saka, Huns, Kushan, Pali, Jatts, Hindu Shahi, Rajputs, Afghan, Turk, Sikh and British rule to that of present-day federation of [[Pakistan]]. ...Ranjit Singh]] occupied Sialkot, Daska, Pasrur, of Sialkot District. The [[Sikh Empire]] extended from Peshawar in the west, to Kashmir in the north (touch
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• Muin ul Mulk
  As governor of the Punjab, Mir Mannu proved a worse foe of the [[Sikh]]s than even his predecessors Abdul Samad Khan (1713 - 26), [[Zakariya Khan ...ty was thus severely curtailed. He despatched Kaura Mall to Multan with an army including some forces of Adina Beg Khan and newly recruited contingents of
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• Sukhdev Singh Sukha
  ...l=google</ref>. This bank robbery was biggest of other similar acts which Sikh militants used to weaken the government and to use Indian Money against Ind ...sources, Vaidya had been the number four assassination target on lists by Sikh militants and he was one of several people killed in retaliation for Operat
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Mombasa
  The earliest Sikh emigration to East Africa began between the years 1895-1902, when they were ...f the main Sikh educational system in Kenya,the Khalsa Schools". The first Sikh Gurdwara Sahibin Africa was opened in Kilindini (Mombasa) literally within
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• Chung tong
  ...he capital Gangtok, at an elevation of 1,700 metres (5,600 ft). The Indian army has a major forward base in the town including a medical centre. ...ad, Siliguri, has recently been discovered to have a connection with early Sikh history. Local tradition there refers to the visit of Guru Nanak (14691539)
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• Gurdwara Damdama Sahib (Delhi)
  ...uru Gobind Singh was presented a guard of honour by a contingent of Mughal army. He was received with great respect and felicitations by the Prince Muazzam ...The king was indeed impressed by the heroic deeds and the dexterity of the Sikh warriors. Thus the agreement effected between the Mughal Emperor and Guruji
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• Dasaundha Singh & Sangat Singh
  ...s. Dasaundha Singh, being the flag-bearer of the Dal Khalsa, or the Khalsa army, was given the name of Nishanwalia. Nishan means a standard or a banner and
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• Mehar Singh
  ...was particularly impressed with the conduct of the squadron led by a young sikh Squadron leader. (Mehar Singh)...They were a happy and an efficent unit" At
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• Bana
  ..., all [[hair]] is maintained, uncut, and untrimmed. The Guru has given his Sikh a standard of dress which distinguishes him or her as a human being dedicat ==Is Bana required for a Sikh==
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• Nadir Shah
  ...imself came out to oppose the invaders at the hanks of the river Ravi, his army was just brushed aside (January, 1739). ...st February, Ambala on the 7th, and Karnal on the 12th Fehruary. The Delhi army had been alerted in Novemher on the fall of Kabul.
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• Khalistan Commando Force
  ...ndranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan]], clashed repeatedly with the [[Indian Army]] forces during the 1980s and early 1990s as well as the Punjab police. ...kh's in Punjab in what the government described as an attempt to drive the Sikh minority out of the region,<ref>Ravi Sharma, Militants kill rivals over fam
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• Chali Mukte
  ...orty (chali) liberated ones (mukte)'', is a term used to refer to the 40 [[Sikh]]s who laid down their lives for the [[Panth]]. There are 2 separate groups ...Gobind Singh]] Ji who are remembered in [[Sikh]] history and daily in the Sikh [[ardas]] or supplicatory prayer offered individually or at gatherings at t
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• When Sikhs conquered Delhi
  ...t the head of the decaying [[Mughal Empire]] at [[Delhi]], the powerful 12 Sikh [[misls]] had a free run in increasing their influence, from the Indus to t It was easy for the Sikh misls to cross the Yamuna and make forays towards Delhi and beyond. The mis
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• Sardar Man Singh, Rariala
  ...ingh Waraich, a well known Sikh Chieftain of village Rariala, in the early Sikh times, about 1759, he converted to Sikhism, and had married his daughter De ...p of fifty horse. In 1848, he was sent to Amritsar. After the second Anglo Sikh war his troop was disbanded and he retired on a pension. In 1852, he joined
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• Alif Khan
  '''Alif Khan''' was an officer in the Mughal army of [[Aurangzeb]]. He is mentioned in Guru Gobind Singh's, ''[[Bachitra Nata 4. MacaulifTe, Max Arthur, The SIKH Religion, Oxford, 1909
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• Clinton's thoughts on the Chittisinghpura Massacre
  ...d Sikh separatist groups, which sought to blame the massacre on the Indian Army and Kashmiri separatist renegades…. ...the subsequent discovery that five Kashmiri youths who were killed by the army on suspicion of being involved in the Chhatisingpora massacre were innocent
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• Lt. General Harbaksh Singh
  '''Lt General Harbaksh Singh''' (1913 – 1999) was a senior Indian Army officer who played a key role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was ...rom 1964 to 1969. He successfully led western command against the Pakistan Army along the entire border and displayed outstanding leadership during which M
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• Pyara Singh
  ...and the other trained to be a nurse in Africa, and one brother joined the army a month before Bhai Pyara Singh's Shaheedi. ...ris, and later he became a Sarblohi (eating food in iron utensils). In the Army mess we were able to get free food, but he would spend his own money to buy
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• Mair Rajputs
  ...f a Sikh Punjabi caste in India from amongst the Punjabi Rajputs. They are Sikh by religion and comprise of the warrior race of Rajputs who had originally ...unjabi Rajputs by then and became known as "Mair Rajputs". They also go by Sikh Rajputs. It must be noted that not all Sunar/Jewelers are Mair Rajputs
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• Giani Thakar Singh
  ...Lahore, and enjoyed the respect of Sikh aristocracy as well as of the Sikh masses.
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• The First Sikh War
  ...tolen from the Sikh Raj. In contemporary history, the holiest of the holy Sikh shrines, Akal Takht Amritsar, was invaded by the Armed Forces of the Govern ...e fort to poison him. Little did he know that the man was a devotee of the Sikh Guru.
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• Sant Baba Attar Singh
  ...Sikh Battalion (present 2nd Battalion of the Sikh Regiment). While in the army, he received the vows of the [[Khalsa]]. He was promoted sergeant on 16 Jun Atar Singh, a devout Sikh, instantly fell under the saint's spell, and determined to lead a life of
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• Akhbar Ludhiana
  ...urt intrigues, murders of princes and sardars and of the power of the Sikh army after the Maharaja's death, received prominent display. At times important
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• Swami Anandghana
  ...Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until the collection perished in the Army attack on the Golden Temple premises in 1984.
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• Behla Encounter
  ...and Lieutenant General of Bhindranwala Tiger Force of Khalistan (BTFK), a sikh militant outfit was holding a meeting with other terrorists and planning to ...by SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu and Khubi Ram, SP (Operations), and units of the army and paramilitary, surrounded the old and abandoned house of Manjinder Singh
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• Baba Roor Singh
  ...ther : Sukhan Singh, Grand Grand Father : Desh Singh, After serving in the Army for 4-5 years he left it and went to the USA and worked as a labourer.On 13 [[Category: Great Sikh Warriors]]
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• Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh (Peshawar)
  ...([[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]'s fabled General) when Peshawar was part of the Sikh Kingdom. It is named in honour of [[Bhai Joga Singh]], a young Gursikh who ...and had completed only two of the customary four circumambulations when a Sikh arrived and delivered the Guru's letter of recall. As the Guru had used the
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attari
  ..., [[Attock]] and [[Multan]]. He also fought in [[Kashmir]] in 1819. He led Sikh forces against Sayyid Ahmad of Bareilly who had during the years 1826-31 ca ...etic named Muldas. He later converted to Sikhism, during the early days of Sikh political ascendancy, and joined the Jatha or band of Sardar Gurbakhsh Sing
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• Shahid Pratap Singh of Punja Sahib
  ...nd came and told him about the train and an opportunity to feed the hungry sikh pensioner prisoners. So all night the sangat prepared the food and under th ...e train stopped. Bhai Pratap Singh said to Sangat "do not bother about us (Sikh devotees), "Serve the hungry Singhs in the train first. You can take care o
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• Zoravar Singh Palit
  Every Sikh knows of Guru Gobind Singh's four Sahibzadas, but very few know that Guru S Baba Zoravar Singh Paalit, a Tarkhan Sikh was born in the home of Bhai Nathoo Ram Lotay and Mata Bhikee on December 2
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• Jagir Singh Bains
  ...been very active in his social life. He is a former Vice President of the Sikh Cultural Society Richmond Hill, presently executive member of Richmond Hill Mr Jagir Singh Bains is proud of his Sikh identity, that is, keeping full beard and wearing a majestic turban, which
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• Sarkar Khalsaji, the Sikh Raj
  ...As the Sikh Army (Dal Khalsa) grew new regions where administered and new Sikh barons came to the fore and the number of large [[misl|misls]] eventually i ...kh Confederacy would eventually in the 19th century be superseded by the [[Sikh Empire]] but its influence would still remain strong throughout the Empire'
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• 1839 A.D - 1849 A.D. The turbulent years
  ...ow helping to lead the Punjabi armies of the Sarkar Khalsa. Ranjit Singh's Sikh credo had created a secular kingdom with equality for all. Through his fore ...ive symbols of Sikhs, etc. Dhyan Singh Dogra played a very strange role in Sikh history. He originally belonged to Jammu. He came to Lahore in search of a
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• Saka Panja Sahib
  ...an]]. The Saka was about to stop the train and to serve Langar to hungry [[Sikh]] prisnors of [[Guru Ka Bagh]] Morcha, who were taken to Attock for 2 and h ...nd moved on after change of staff and taking water for the locomotive. The Sikh communities of Gurdwara Panja Sahib on that route got ready food and drink
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• Talwandi Sabo
  ...dama Sahib''', is the home of the fourth temporal seat ([[Takhat]]) of the Sikh religion. The land is located in the district of Bathinda, Punjab, India. ...e to [[Punjab]]. Attacked at the rain swollen Sarsa by their pursuers, the Sikh columns were scattered, but the attackers lost many men and were forced to
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• Jean Francois Allard
  ...ion from the Maharaja and he came to occupy position of preeminence at the Sikh court. In addition to a salary of Rs 30,000 a year, he was granted numerous 1. Lafont, Jean-Marie, La Presence francaise dans Ie Royaume Sikh du Penjab, 1822-1849. Paris, 1992
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• Sikhism in Myanmar
  ...of Sikh people living in Myanmar. On Sunday, February 27, my visit to the Sikh Gurudwara was arranged. The marble slab on the front wall narrates the hist ...Sikh soldiers settled in Burma the control of the Gurudwara passed to the Sikh Religious Council of Burma.
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• Sant Atar Singh (Mastuana)
  ...ical treatises such as the Vichĝr Sĝgar. Side by side with his progress in Sikh learning, he developed a deeply religious cast of mind. While tending his c ...re under the guidance of its granthī, Bhĝī Jodh Siṅgh. He was still in the army when he took a vow not to marry.
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• Buckam Singh, Once Forgotten Sikh Canadian war hero
  ...buckam/index.html '''World War I Medal discovery reveals story of Canadian Sikh war hero'''] based on article at sikhmuseum.com '''The story of one of the first Sikh Canadian WWI soldiers has been uncovered with the discovery of his Victory
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• Bhai Baj Singh
  * Rao Ballu ( sikh general with guru hargobind sahib as quoted - "Rao Ballu ek beer bahadar , ...other was the legendary [[Sardar Bhagwant Singh Bangeshwar]] . Very famous sikh warrior , scholar & martyr [[Bhai Mani Singh]] was his cousin brother .
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• Amar Katha
  ...nd one, dated 1825, in the SIKH Reference Library until it perished in the Army attack in 1984. Compiled probably towards the end of the eighteenth century
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• The so-called Jathedar of Akal Takhat Sahib
  ...Jhanda Bunga. Bhai Mani Singh is not referred as so-called Jathedar in any Sikh work. Bhai Ratan Singh Bhangu calls him "Pujaran sion vado pujari" (chief p ...the shrines. As the caretaker of Akal Takht Sahib, he introduced authentic Sikh practices at Akal Takht Sahib and Darbar Sahib. Baba Prem Singh Hoti wrote
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• Baba Deep Singh Ji
  Baba Deep Singh was a great Sikh scholar who became a soldier and martyr for the defence of Sikhism. When he ...re hard working Sikh farmers but had not been blessed with any children. A Sikh saint told them one day that they would have a special child whom they shou
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• Gurmukh Singh OBE
  ...r civil servant and prominent Sikh scholar. He advises many national level Sikh organizations and was awarded an OBE in 2016 for charity work and community ...Indian army at the time and became well known Sikh gyani, an exegesist of Sikh Scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
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• Zakariya Khan
  {{p4|File:Mass execution of sikhs.jpg|Mass execution of [[Sikh]]s in [[Lahore]] during the time of [[Zakariya Khan]]}} ...had also taken part in the Lahore government's operations against the [[Sikh]] leader [[Banda Singh Bahadur]]. After the capture of Banda Singh and hi
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• Lions of the Great Wars
  {{p3|File:Sikh soldiers in Paris WW1 in 1916.jpg|Sikh soldiers in Paris WW1 in 1916}} ...troops to the ranks of the Allied forces by 1919. Of these troops, the [[Sikh]]s, one of the two loyal 'martial races' of the British Raj, rallied in eno
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• Sardar Dasaundha Singh and Sangat Singh Nishaanwalia
  ...s. Dasaundha Singh, being the flag-bearer of the Dal Khalsa, or the Khalsa army, was given the name of Nishanwalia. Nishan means a standard or a banner and
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• Teja Singh Swatantar
  ...ined the Akali Dal and took part in the agitation for the liberation of Sikh places of worship. In September 1921, he raised a squad called Swatantar ...went , he preached revolution at congregations of Indians, mainly Punjabi Sikh immigrants. A brilliant orator, he was described by the American intelligen
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• Rulers of Ladakh
  ...history saw many invasions. Namgyal who was a great warrior raised his own Army and became the ruler of Ladakh, by ousting those in power and beheading the ...thers. They were ever ready for battle. They had a powerful lobby in the [[Sikh]]Durbar at Lahore. The Jammu brothers resolved to do battle and win Lahore
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• Singhni Risking Her Life To Have Darshan Of Guruji
  ...eir men outside the city on the highways, so that they might turn back any Sikh who wanted to enter the city on the plea that entry to the Harmandir Sahib ..., and fight against him. If there is any problem, inform the Khalsa (God’s Army) living in any of the nearby jungles."
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• History
  The word "[[Sikh]]" is derived from the [[Sanskrit]] 'shishya' meaning disciple. Sikhs are t [[Image:Tengurus.jpg|thumb|150px|right|The Ten Sikh Gurus]]
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• Chhattiana
  ...enth Master told them to wait but they didn't agree. In the mean time, a [[Sikh]] presented before the Guru with his [[Daswandh]] (1/10 or 10% of one's inc ...by. He was greatly moved by the personality of the tenth Master and his [[Sikh]]'s life and requested the Guru to make him a part of the [[Khalsa]] then h
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• Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala
  '''Sham Singh Attariwala''' was born in 1790's in the house of well known Sikh farmers in the town of Attari (Few kms from the border of Indian and Pakist ...dings which brought about the demolition of Sikh power. At the time of the Sikh ruler's death. Dhian singh was prime minister of Punjab to Maharaja Kharak
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• Sikhs persecuted in Pakistan
  {{p|File:Pak Sikh 1.jpg|Sikh IDPs from Orakzai Agency at the Bhai Joga Singh Gurdwara, in Peshawar, Paki ...ernally Displaced Persons (IDPs) gather to retell their tragic story, as Sikh devotees clean the gurdwara in preparation for the evening prayer service
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• Maharaja Ranjit Singh liberates Jammu
  ...Afghans, escaped first to [[Jammu]] and then to [[Lahore]] and urged the [[Sikh]] ruler to free the Kashmiris from Afghan oppression. ...e Baramulla Muzaffarabad route heading for Kabul. After their victory, the Sikh forces under the command of Missar Devan Chand and [[Phula Singh Akali]]
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• A Miracle During World War II
  ...[[India]] were a little curious to see an white Englishman dressed in the Sikh [[bana]] (dress) complete with [[turban]] and flowing beard. The Englishman was asked by one of the Sikhs the reason for his wearing the Sikh form. "Was it due to respect for the weapons or was there any other reason?
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• Jammu
  ...ulab Singh|Raja Gulab Singh]]. After the the treaties that ended the Anglo-Sikh Wars, Raja Gulab Singh, who with his brother's help had made off with the L ...was only a last minute airlift of crack Sikh airborn units of the Indian army, that the Pathan's advance was stopped. The Pathans disappointed their Pak
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• SIKHS RELATIONS WITH JATS OF BHARATPUR
  ...WITH JATS OF BHARATPUR'''. Hindu Jats, who have ethnic affinity with the Sikh Jatts of the Punjab, had emerged, like the Sikhs, as a new political po ...of about 10,0 Sikh sardars. The meeting began with ardas, the supplicatory Sikh prayer, in which they pleaded, "Jawahar Singh, son of Suraj Mall and a devo
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• Gurdwara Brahm Bunga sahib
  ...ahib''', Dodra, District, [[Mansa]] (Punjab) is the centre established for Sikh meditation and kirtand and for samagams. This new Gurdwara named Brahm Bung ...samagams were held in the houses of a few retired personnel of the Burmese Army residing in Dodra village. Impressed by these Samagams, retired Subedar Kis
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• Thakur Singh Sandhanvalia
  ...Bikram Singh]] of [[Kapurthala]], and Giani Gian Singh of Amritsar. This Sikh meeting laid the foundation of a society called the Sri Guru Singh Sabha. in 1884, Thakur Singh visited the Takhts, the principal Sikh shrinesat Amritsar, Anandpur, Patna and Nandedto pray for the prosperity of
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• Sketch Of The Sikhs
  ...him the most indulgent, are both interesting and valuable. He remarked how Sikh chiefs lacked unity among themselves. Their armies, including that of RANJI 2. Khurana, Gianeshwar, British Historiography on the Sikh Power in the Punjab. Delhi, 1985
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• Taliban take Sikh Hostage, demand ransom
  ...been living for many years, were seized 2 days ago, as militants took the Sikh leader of the small community hostage. A Jirga was formed to meet with the ...carrying out increasing violence and attacks on local police, the frontier army outposts and Shia Sufi Shrines. They have recently taken control of the Swa
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• Sikh Ruhila Relations
  '''RUHILA - SIKH RELATIONS'''. The Ruhilas came from the Yusafzai tribe of Afghans originall ...art of the treasure. Ala Singh had also supplied provisions to the Maratha army on the eve of the battle of Panipat, January 1761. The Durrani, therefore,
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• Bibi Sharan Kaur
  ...o doubt, to tell everything to their chief. Then Hari Singh ordered some Sikh horsemen to get Jagat Ram and secretly follow the two suspicious men, who ...em to disarm themselves. The dacoits were taken aback and outnumbered. The Sikh soldiers brought the dacoits, the booty, and the bride to Hari Singh Nalwa.
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• Siharfian Hari Singh Nalwa
  ...valorous deeds of Hari Singh Nalva (1793-1837), an army general of the Sikh times. Inspired by the elder Qadar Yar's
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• Master Mota Singh
  ...east of Jalandhar. His grandfather, Sahib singh was a soldier in the Sikh Army and had fought against the British. After passing the matriculation examina ...ess, which he attended. He joined the Akali movement for the liberation of Sikh holy places from the control of a corrupt and effete priestly order, but di
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• Captain Fateh Singh
  ...r II and is Mentioned in Despatch holder. He was the born to a [[Labana]] Sikh (Ghotra) Family at [[Perowshah]], District [[Gujrat]], now in [[Pakistan]]. ...bedaar Chatar singh (his Dad), He commented that he was from a traditional Army family and he would fulfill all requirements and needs
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• Sajjan Kumar: Factfile
  ...In the case of anti Sikh riots it was a temporary phenomenon, where every Sikh youth with a Kesh was treated as if they were all terrorists, armed to the ...including this writer, were eye-witnesses to the targeted attack on every Sikh person, establishment, dwelling and taxi stand for four days from the late
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• Sikh bravery
  ...fight against the forces of evil. This privilege should be extended to the Sikh people, who throughout the history of the world have spilled their blood un “Our Sikh leaders have been talking about ancient historical and cultural links, but
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• Gurudwara Sangat Sahib (Nanded)
  ...ra Sangat Sahib''' is inside the old Nanded town. Its name suggests that a Sikh Sangat existed in Nanded since the time of Guru Nanak Dev's visit, or at le ...al.JPG|Shield with which Guru Gobind Singh Ji distributes money among his army]]
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• Remembering the battle of Gallipoli
  ...there were six battalions of the Sikh Regiment forming part of the British Army. ...re known for their bravery and steadfastness, the British employed all the Sikh battalions, except the 35th Sikhs, fighting at such far-away places as Eg
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• Anglo Sikh War I
  ==The First Anglo-Sikh War - Background== '''Anglo Sikh War 1''' (1845-46), resulting in the partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom, was the outcome of British expansionism and the near anarchical co
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• Two kidnapped Sikhs rescued in Khyber
  ...tile northwest, a security official said, days after the body of the third Sikh [who had been killed] was found. The army said "some miscreants" were killed in Monday's encounter, but released no f
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• Heroism at the battle of Galli Poli
  ...dhiana Sikhs, 35th Sikhs, 36th Sikhs, 45th Sikhs and 47th Sikhs. Since the Sikh soldiers were known for their bravery and steadfastness, the British employ ...tion of all who have a sense of history goes to the first battalion of the Sikh Regiment called the 14th Ferozepur Sikhs, which was moved after a short sta
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• Saragarhi mentioned in the London Gazette
  ...heroic devotion which has never been surpassed ha the annals of the Indian Army. ...their Sovereign while upholding to the last the traditional bravery of the Sikh nation.
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• ISI former head says Sikh community gives him "next-to-Guru" status?
  '''Former head of the ISI, a non Sikh who is head of the Pakistan Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PGPC), says Sikh India’s Sikh Militants Forming Ties with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistani Intelligence
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• CHUHAR SINGH
  ...li was a prominent general of [[Shaheedan Misl]] and a close relative of Sikh warriors [[Baba Deep Singh]] and [[Rai Singh Bhangi]] <ref> Roper Lethbrid ...Singh Ahluwalia and attacked Sirhind. <ref>{History And Philosophy Of The Sikh Religion by K.Singh, 1914, p.280. </ref>
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• Sikh history
  The major time periods in Sikh History are: 4) Sikh Kingdom Era
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• Dhanna Singh Malwai
  ...nna Singh Malwai''' ( - died May 1843) a historic general of the Khalsa army under [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]. He was the son of Mal Singh a Man Jat whos ...ha and the Khalsa Darbar until the British siezed the Punjab after the two Sikh-Anglo wars.
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• Bolowali Encounter
  ...ed young Sikh men and women who had sworn to aright the wrongs done to the Sikh Kaum with their lives. As this new Jathebandi took birth it was initially c ...this they began to use all means at their disposal to separate the various Sikh Jathebandis who were fighting for independence. Due to the lies spread by a
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• Operation Shudeekaran
  ...of an operation called [[Operation Wood Rose]] carried out by the Indian Army in the days and months after the attack on the [[Harmandar Sahib]] in 1984 After many on their lists escaped their dragnet the army was left with only the relatives of those who they wished to capture. The r
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• Vijai Vinod
  ...the sovereign, Maharaja Duleep Singh, he was the de facto ruler of the Sikh empire. Since the book was written to please Hira Singh and Pandit Jalla ...od'' is concerning the attack of the Lahore army on the Dera of the famous Sikh saint [[Bhai Bir Singh]] of Naurangabad, where Atar Singh Sandhanvalia was
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• Balvant Singh Canadian
  ...came a devout Sikh. He was promoted a lance naik, but he resigned from the army in 1905. In April 1906, he migrated to Canada. He played a leading part in ...erica. Bhai Balvant Singh visited the United States for consultations with Sikh settlers there. He and Sant Teja Singh, one of the leaders of the Sikhs in
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• Dal Khalsa
  ...hs made the immediate reformation of a similar force impossible, yet the Sikh warriors in small groups continued to challenge the State's might. ...akhi]] and [[Diwali|Divali]]. Divan Darbara Singh (d. 1734), an elderly Sikh, acted on such occasions as the common leader of the entire congregation.
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• Siri Guru Singh Sabha, Nairobi
  ...e for Sikhism. It also encouraged publications of books and periodicals on Sikh history and prompted the Punjabi language as a medium of teaching. ...hem to wear their five Ks. Anyone trimming his beard was thrown out of the army.
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• Maharani Jind Kaur
  ...[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and mother of [[Maharaja Duleep Singh]], the last Sikh sovereign of the Punjab from 1844-1849. And also known as the ''Messalina o ...fter, Hira Singh captured the Fort of Lahore and on 16 September 1845, the army proclaimed the minor Duleep singh the sovereign of the State. Hira Singh w
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• Old News 10
  ...artarpur-thumb.jpg|‘Kartarpur religious corridor’, an issue related to the Sikh faith, is acting as a sort of bridge between both the nuclear states. Suppo {{NewsSikhnet|http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-historian-be-kiwi-tv|Sikh Historian to be on Kiwi TV|http://www.sikhnet.com/files/imagecache/thumb/ne
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• Historic Nihangs
  ...for the Sikh people and Gurdwaras and organised means for the exegesis of Sikh religious scripture and traditions. ...gs, heard this in the city of 'Sabo Kee Talwandi', he collected a group of Sikh warriors and advanced towards Sri Amritsar Sahib. As he passed from village
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• July 31
  ...as qouted in the British Parliament by Lord Finlay that he had been made a Sikh. ...offered his political mentorship during his the early days of contemporary Sikh politics.
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• Akali
  ...owever, the word Akali, a term now appropriated by members of the dominant Sikh political party, the [[Shiromani Akali Dal]], founded in 1920, and groups s .... Phula Singh`s Akalis formed the crack brigade in Maharaja RANJIT Singh`s army as well as the custodians of the nation`s conscience and morals. After the
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• Hari Singh Nalwa & Begum Bano
  ...l was [[Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa]], who was a Rehatvan (strictly observant) Sikh of the Guru. Once, when Hari Singh Nalwa had set up camp with his army in Jamrud in [[Afghanistan]], a local [[Muslim]] woman called 'Bano' had w
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• Kaur Singh Chakkar
  ...revenge factor. The worse affected were the fairer sex, women. Hundreds of Sikh, Hindu and Muslims women were abducted by the rival communities. Mr. Kaur S The troubles and tribulations of the Hindu and Sikh abducted women of occupied Kashmir, especially of district Muzaffargarh, ha
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• Mazhabi
  ...i, Majhabhi or Majabhi) are members of the Rangretta clan who embraced the sikh faith and are mainly found in the Punjab region, Kashmir and Rajastan. The ...gth and self sacrifice in the Sikh, Khalsa, British Indian army and Indian army. The Mazhabis were designated as a martial race by British officials. "Mart
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• Jammu Kashmir Ladakh
  ...s from the families of the victims of that violent era-Hiñdu, Muslim and [[Sikh.]] ...ttle fought in Jammû province after 1947, making this book a must-read for army officers as well as those interested in the history of Pâkistân's wars wi
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• Gurdev Singh Debu
  ...Dialpur. He was a former president of the area of Kartarpur of [[All India Sikh Students Federation|AISSF]]. After this, he began to work on motors and was ...o attended a Sikh Camp (December 26 to 31, 1983) to get a certification in Sikh religious education.
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• Gurdwara Pathar Sahib
  ...to the [[Ladakh]] region of [[Guru Nanak Dev]], the founder Guru of the [[Sikh faith]]. ...der of Buddhists in Tibet, has confirmed this in his discussions with some Sikh leaders saying that Tibetans revere Guru Nanak as a Buddhist saint under th
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• Ram Singh, six
  '''Ram Singh''' (1669-1766), Ram Chand before receiving the Sikh rites, was an ancestor of the ruling house of Patiala. The second son of Ch ...nded by his grandfather Dasaundha Singh. Dasaundha Singh, on receiving the Sikh initiatory rites in 1730, entered the service of Adina Beg and remained wit
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• Namdhari Movement
  ...a Ram Singh Namdhari after the Anglo-Sikh wars. He was a soldier in Khalsa army. ...customs and mannerism, which had been growing on it since the beginning of Sikh monarchy. In the midst of national pride born of military glory and politic
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• Anglo Sikh War II
  ...commanders at the top and not to any lack of fighting strength of the Sikh army. It marked also the fulfilment of the imperialist ambition of the new gover According to the peace settlement of March 1846, at the end of Anglo-Sikh war I, the British force in [[Lahore]] was to be withdrawn at the end of th
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• Ramdasia Sikhs
  The '''Ramdasia''' were historically a [[Sikh]] [[Hindu]] sub-group that originated from the [[Caste system in India|cas ...ame significant.<ref>{{cite book |title=Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign |first=Daniel |last=Marston |publisher=Greenwood Publ
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• Guru Nanak in Tibet Quotes
  ...led it was decided to blow it with a dynamite the next day. That night the army officer also had a dream not to remove the stone but he again disregarded i == Sikh Pilgrimages ==
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• Sukhdev Singh Jalwehra
  ...Three, English class three and Hindi class three, etc. His rank, trade and army number were CFN/elect. 7111631. He was discharged on the 6th of March 1976. ...sels.png|thumb|250px|left|Jalwehra handing over a historic memorandum with Sikh demands (Khalistan) to the Indian embassy of Brussels.]]
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• Guru Nanak Buddhist
  teachers. 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 called Gandhara, the home of Mahayana Buddhism. This
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• Lieutenant General Maharaja Yadavinder Singh
  ...for a number of years. Seconded in 1935 to a crack Sikh unit of the Indian army, he did valuable work helping in reconstruction after the terrible Quetta e ...ded in 1944 by an honorary appointment as Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian army.
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• Bibi Nirbhai Kaur
  ...less [[Amritdhari]] girl of 22. Her father, Jangbahadar Singh, head of the army of Sodhi Wadbhag Singh, had taught her horse riding and use of arms. She th ...d Kartarpur at midnight and burnt most of the city. Sodhi, who had a small army, was caught and shut in a room. Even the 250 years-old sacred Gurdwara, Tha
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• Gurcharan Singh Tohra
  ...r a record 27 years, and was one of the most influential and controversial Sikh leaders of the 20th century. ...romani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC). President Kalam described the Sikh leader as a "prominent political and social leader who was well known for h
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• Operation Blue Star: Detailed account
  ...tacked when launched on the [[Golden Temple]], the holiest shrine of the [[Sikh]]s. The attack, initiated on May 31st 1984, was one of the most inflammator ...ts roots. In order to understand this it is important to first look at how Sikh/Hindu relations started. [[Hindus]] have been against [[Sikhism]] since the
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• Origins of non-violence movement in India
  ...Martrydom the principle of non-violence was upheld again and again. Brave Sikh men and women layed down their lives in a peaceful fight against the last ==Waqf Act excludes Sikh Gurdwaras==
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• Bhai Baghel Singh
  {{p|File:Sardar Baghel Singh.jpg|Bhai Baghel Singh at the head of a Sikh army, artist unknown}} ...und 1730's, he was the descendant of Chaudhary Bhai Langaha Dhillon, the [[Sikh]] chief of 84 villages in the Majha, who along with his younger brother Bha
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• Conversion to Sikhism
  ...to the Sikh cause, Guru Angad appointed him [[Guru Amar Das]] the third Sikh Guru at the age of 73. ...s the sister of 7/7 London suicide bomber Hasib Hussain. Kaur embraced the Sikh way of life in the late 1990s. Her strict Muslim family disowned her after
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• Operation Blue Star: News reports
  ...India, {{w|Indira Gandhi}}. At the time of the operation, close to 100,000 army troops had been deployed throughout [[Punjab]]. A group of Sikhs, led by [ ...ab, reiterating the spirit of not to forget, the Executive director of the Sikh Research Institute, Harinder Singh painstakingsly scrutinized the details o
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• Sri Guru Granth Sahib Untouched by Floods
  ...hind while evacuating for Hurricane Katrina prompted a rescue mission from Sikh community members last week”, reported ‘The Advocate’ on 17 September ...nal Sikh Guru, [[Sri Guru Granth Sahib]] at the New Orleans Gurdwara ("the Sikh Church") had been recovered untouched by the flood waters or the violent wi
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• Invasion of Multan
  ...fought fervently, but lost miserably to the trained soldiers of the Darbar army. The engagement lasted only one day yet thousands of Ghazi's lay dead on th ...As the continued firing of the cannon was crucial for enlarging the hole, Sikh soldiers wrangled among each other to have the honour of supporting the can
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• Bibi Baghel Kaur
  ...forcibly took beautiful Hindu ladies with him, but the Sikhs attacked his army when he was going back to Afghanistan. They recovered the property he was t ...ccepted the challenge. Th next day, four thousand Sikhs with a few hundred Sikh ladies, including Baghel Kaur, divided
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• Kamboj
  ...to Ancient Persia and Vishnu god. In Old Era & Modern Era Period in Punjab Sikh Kamboj Professions were Eye Spirit Workers, Ghost Spirit Workers, Ghost Hea Numerous foreign and Indian writers have described the modern ''''''Sikh Kambojs'''/Kambohs''' as one of the '''finest class of agriculturists''' of
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• Old News 5
  .../teaser/large/FF-3.jpg|To promote Sikh history and culture, the first-ever Sikh film festival in India will be organised at Amritsar in the beginning of ne ...iary of American Airlines. As far as anybody knows, she is the only female Sikh airline pilot in North America, and possibly anywhere.}}
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• Rise of British Sikhism
  {{p|Image:Maharaja duleep singh.jpg|First Sikh to enter the UK, Maharaja Duleep Singh}} ...handful of Sikhs arrived in England and soon founded the first gurdwara or Sikh temple in Europe in London.
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• History in the Ardas
  The word '''[[Ardas|Ardĝs]]''' is a reference to the [[Sikh]] prayer that is a done before performing or after undertaking any signific ...e second portion''' of ardas discusses the '''sacrifices made by various [[Sikh]]s throughout history'''. The sacrifices made by these noble individuals ra
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• Moujiya Encounter
  Indian Security Forces had flooded Punjab. The Central Army, Central Reserve Police Force, National Guard, Border Security Force, RAW, ...esson. It was decided that a direct war should be waged. When CRPF, BSF or Army jeeps would come on a round, the Singhs would attack. The jeep was either s
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• Gurudwaras Around Chandigarh
  ...by the Sikh gurus. After that this place was also battle ground of English Sikh wars. The historical Gurudwaras around Chandigarh are. ...f the Guru and his noble cause that he lost no time in serving milk to his army.
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• Battle of Amritsar
  ...took place between [[Guru HarGobind Ji]] and the forces of the [[Mughal]] army on June 5, 1628 (22 of [[Jeth]], in [[Bikrami]] 1685). [[Emperor Jahangir]] ...his army looked in terror. The Mughals retreated and the battle ended in a Sikh victory, resulting in Sri Guru HarGobind Sahib Ji gaining great respect wit
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• Sikh Ahluwalia
  In Old Era & Modern Era Period in Punjabi Sikh Ahluwalia Professions were Government, Barrister, Administrative Law, Chari ...lage was established by his ancestor, Sadda singh, a disciple of the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Har Gobind. Hence, the name Ahluwalia (meaning from Ahluwal). Hi
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• Babu Teja Singh
  ...ed from City High School, Patiala, in 1882. He joined the Patiala state army as a havildar (sergeant) in 1882, but resigned three years later to undergo ...the following year he compiled and published [[Khalsa Rahit Prakash]], a Sikh code of conduct. During that year he went on a pilgrimage on foot to [[Haz
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• Hira Singh Dogra
  '''Hira Singh Dogra''' (1816-1844), prime minister of the Sikh kingdom of [[Lahore]] from 17 September 1843 to 21 December 1844, was bo ...p Singh and Raja Dhian Singh. Hira Singh had Bhai Gurmukh Singh, a revered Sikh divine, and Misr Beli Ram murdered for their having opposed his father's pr
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• Adina Beg Khan
  ...e Sikhs were wont to seek shelter in times of stress. He laid siege to the Sikh fort of Ram Rauni at Amritsar. Before the Sikhs rallied to confront him, Ad 3. Bhagat Singh, Sikh Polity. Delhi, 1978
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• Battle of Sarhind
  ==Sikh Preparations== ...Banda. They also wished to see the fulfillment of the Guru's prophecy for Sikh sovereignty in Punjab.
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• Shaheed Avtar Singh
  ...years he was educated at Moolak Kula primary school. His father was in the army and due to his bravery was awarded land in the village of Mintgomary in Pak [[Category:Sikh Martyrs]]
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• Mirza Raja Jai Singh
  ...mber (Jaipur) in 1617 when he also got his first appointment in the Mughal army. "Since then", writes Sir Jadunath Sarkar in his, ''History of Aurangzeb'' ...although a Mughal vassal, was a staunch [[Hindu]] and an admirer of the [[Sikh Guru]]s. During his stay at [[Delhi]], he was used by [[Aurangzeb]] as a
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• Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasions
  ...ls). His clan was thereafter called the Durrani. So to sustain and pay his army Ahmad Shah once again traversed the mountainous passes into India seeking w ...l governor, Nasir Khan, in October of 1747. As an officer in Nadir Shah's army Ahmad Shah had witnessed the weakness of Mohammad Shah and seen the rebelli
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• Baba Gurdit Singh
  ...ed the British offer of a jagir after the British annexation of the Punjab Sikh Kingdom in 1849. ...entry of Indians. The ship, renamed Guru Nanak Jahaj by its predominately Sikh passengers, had a total of 372 passengers out of whom 351 were Punjabi Sikh
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• Sikhism in Thailand
  ...Sikhs''' are [[Sikh]]s of the Guru who have upheld the Nishaan Sahib, the Sikh flag in [[Thailand]]. The first Sikh migrated to Thailand in 1890. His name was Ladha Singh. Sikhs began migrati
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• Manbir Singh Chaheru
  ...aw of Manbir Singh's aunt Niranjan Kaur, encouraged him to get baptised (a Sikh initiation ceremony). In the year of 1979, Manbir Singh along with his wife ....com/lofiversion/index.php/t16981.html</ref> and fought against the Indian army until his death ( June 9th 1984) in [[Operation Blue Star]] <ref> http://w
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• History of Jammu and Kashmir
  ...Ranjit Singh]] evicted the Pathans from Kashmir with the help of the Dogra Army of Jammu. '''The [[Sikhs]] ruled Kashmir till their defeat by the British.' * In 1846, after the partial defeat of the Sikhs in the First Anglo Sikh War, Kashmir was given to Gulab Singh for Rs.75 lakh (Rs.7.5 million).
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• 12 O'clock joke
  ...s standing at railway Station (New Delhi) when my attention went towards a Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a long beard and weari After a while, one local train arrived, which was totally packed. The Sikh youth tried to board the train but failed to do so. Just then a voice was h
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• Khwaja Abid Khan
  ...In 1762, he attacked the Sukarchakia misl at Gujranwala. Some Sikhs in his army turned sides and joined Charat Singh Sukarchakia's forces. Khwaja Abid w ...nd driven beyond Barnala with the loss of 10,000 men. The day is marked in Sikh history as the [[Ghallughara]] (the great scrimmage). Ahmad Shah next attac
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• Gurdwaras Around Muktsar
  ...Sardar [[Hari Singh Nalva]] (1791 = 1837), one of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army generals. During the 1930's Sant Gurmukh Singh Karsevavale and Sant Sadhu S
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• Mata Kishan Kaur Kaonke
  ...s married to Sardar Harnam Singh of Village Kaonke. He later on joined the army and died in 1902 while serving in Burma. Her two sons had also died when th ...with the Sikhs who went to the Golden Temple to protest against this anti-Sikh behavior of the Mahants. She was there to physically set the Mahants straig
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• Sikh/Maratha Relations
  '''Sikh / Maratha Relations''' over half a century from 1758 to 1806 alternated be ...was besieged and on 21 March the town fell and was sacked thoroughly. The Sikh / Maratha coalition was soon strained over the distribution of spoils. The
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• Maharaja Gulab Singh
  ...Empire. Later (''c.''1812), Gulab Singh enlisted in Emperor Ranjit Singh's army, becoming the commander of a Dogra cavalry contingent. He distinguished him ...ed area which was expanded in 1819 with the annexation of [[Kashmir]] by a Sikh force. In 1820, in appreciation of services rendered by the family, and by
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• Gangu
  There are various versions in the Sikh history about the arrest of Mata Gujri and young sahibzadeys and the role o ...entral Mughal leadership, who helped [[Khalsa]] during Sirhind Fateh. Many Sikh scholars note that the Mughal governor, Wazir Khan and his minister Sucha N
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• Nalwa and NWFP
  ...e was not unknown to the Hazara tribes. When Maharaja Ranjit Singh led his army to conquer Mankera in 1821, he ordered Hari Singh Nalwa who was in Kashmir ...f/chiefs against the infidel Sikhs. Hari Singh Nalwa knew how to match the Sikh hatred of Afghans. He set up a very strong administration in the Peshawar v
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• Nadir Shah's Invasion
  ...Mughals to invade India in 1521, and seize power at Delhi by defeating the army of the Lodhi Sultan Ibrahim at Panipat in 1526. towards December 1719, Moha ...imself came out to oppose the invaders at the hanks of the river Ravi, his army was just brushed aside (January, 1739).
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• Malva Region
  ...who preached the message of truth, during his Udasis (Travels). The Second Sikh Guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji, was born in the Malva region, in the year 1504, in ...the center in Patiala. During the time of [[Guru Ram Das]] Ji, the fourth Sikh Guru, many famous Jatt's, such as Bhai Adam, a Sidhu Jatt of Vinjhu, in Ba
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• Peer Buddhu Shah
  ...se soldiers faced battle against the Hill chiefs, they deserted the Guru's army. ...e was the sister of [[Said Khan]] a high ranking officer in the [[Mughal]] army. Peer Buddhu Shah had four sons Sayyed Ashraf, Sayyed Muhomad Shah, Sayyed
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• Guru Har Rai - The Apostle of Mercy
  ...had prooven himself a traitor (his lineage is '''still outcast''' from the Sikh folds). His younger grandson, Har Rai, according to some records, was broug ...and riddled with corruption. Adhering to the benevolent tradition of the Sikh Gurudom, Guru Har Rai freely used all his resources directing his Congregat
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• Mai Bhago
  ..., who had become a [[Sikh]] during the time of [[Guru Arjan]], the fifth [[Sikh Guru]]. She was the only sister of four brothers. ...e was married to [[Nidhan Singh Warraich]] of [[Patti]]; She was a staunch Sikh by birth and upbringing. She was distressed to hear in 1705 that some of th
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• Bhai Bidhi Chand Chhina
  ...ligious preacher of the time of [[Guru Hargobind]]. Some say that he was a Sikh Chhina [[Rajput|Jatt]] of the village of Chhina, 35 km south of [[Amritsar] ...Chand had fallen into bad company and taken to banditry. One day, a pious Sikh, Bhai Adali of the village of Chohia, led him into [[Guru Arjan]]'s presenc
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• Jagjit Singh Aurora
  ...Aurora looks on while Lieutenant General Niazi, Commander of the Pakistan Army in the East signs the Instrument of Surrender}}]] ...he Indian commander whose comprehensive defeat of the Western [[Pakistan]] Army in 1971 led to the creation of [[Bangladesh]]. He was born in Jhelum, [[Bri
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• Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  ...be one of the greatest honours ever bestowed, in the 18th century, to any Sikh. He was further honoured by the Sikh Confederacy with the title of 'Nawab', at [[Amritsar]] in [[1754]], after t
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• Bhai Bota Singh & Bhai Garja Singh
  ...[[Tarn Taran]]. One day he was noticed by some people who thought he was a Sikh. ...to the quick. Accompanied by his companion [[Garja Singh]], a [[Rangreta]] Sikh, and with a bamboo club in his hand, he took up position on the grand trunk
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