The 15th Sikhs being given a heroes' welcome upon their arrival in Marseille | 45th Rattray's Sikhs |
In 1831, when the Muslim activist Syed Ahmad Barelvi was killed by the Sikhs along with hundreds of Barelvi's mujahideen in the battle of Balakot, many of his mujahideen stayed in Buner under the protection of Akhund Ghaffur.
Gurumaa conducted series of discourses on various spiritual texts of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, budhists like Bhagavad Gita, japji sahib, rehraas sahib, jaap sahib of Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Gita, Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatkam and Bhaja Govindam, Narada Bhakti Sutra and poetries of sufi mystics like Baba Bulle Shah, baba farid and Rumi.
Baba Dayal Das (1783-1855) was a Sahajdhari Sikh whose main mission was to bring Sikhs back to the Adi Granth and simran.
Tarna Dal, the army of the youth, was one of the two main divisions of Dal Khalsa, the confederated army of the Sikhs during the eighteenth century, the other one being the Buddha Dal (army of the elders).
Bakshi Singh ‘Adil’ in his Sampooran Ramgarhia Itihaas (lit. Comprehensive Ramgarhia History) states that Bhai Sundar Das hailed from Musapur Village in Punjab and met by Guru Nanak, the first Guru of the Sikhs, to later become an influential parcharak (preacher) of Sikhism.
Baghel Singh's Karor Singhia Misl fought directly with Ahmad Shah Durrani (also known as Abdali), along with other Dal Khalsa misls near Kup at Malerkotla, where in one day of battle alone 30,000-40,000 women, children, and old Sikhs were killed.
Banda Singh sent Sikhs to the Uttar Pradesh and Sikhs took over Saharanpur, Jalalabad and other areas near by bringing relief to the repressed population.
As the digging of the sacred pool at Amritsar, and the erection in the middle of it of the shrine, Harimander, began under Guru Ram Das resulting in a large amount of expenditure, the Sikhs were encouraged to set aside a minimum of ten per cent (dasvandh) of their income for the common cause and the concept of Guru Ki Golak "Guru's treasury" was coined.
Linguistically, however, "Eckankar" derives from Ekankār or Ik Oankār (Punjabi Eka Omkāra), a name for God given by Guru Nānak and the very first word of the Mūl Mantra (recited everyday by Sikhs), the Japjī Sahib, and the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy scriptures).
Saraiki and Lehndi, spoken by Rai Sikhs, Kambojas and migrants from Sahiwal (Pakistan)
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, the reputed and oldest engineering institution of Punjab named after first guru of Sikhs
With the passage of time, it was overrun by many foreign invaders, such as Greeks, Persians, Afghans, White Huns, Mughals, Sikhs and the British.
Veteran journalist Khushwant Singh stated that Tohra "could have become the uncrowned king of the Sikhs", but "his vision remained limited to launching morchas and going to jail".
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, the oldest engineering institution of Punjab named after first guru of sikhs, Foundation stone was laid by Dr. Rajinder Prasad in 1954, the then President of India.
Later, he was publicly condemned by the Sikhs and social activists like Khushwant Singh, Guru Radha Kishan, Habib Tanveer and Amrita Pritam for his alleged role in Sikh riots in Delhi and lead to his expulsion from the party after few years.
In the early morning hundreds of Sikhs were ordered to move out of the Golden Temple.
Along with several similarly-aged young officers, such as Herbert Edwardes and Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew, Daly was sent to 'advise' the Sikhs as part of Henry Lawrence's young men.
During this rebellion, some Indian troops, particularly in Bengal, mutinied, but the "loyal", Dogras, Gurkhas, Garhwalis, Devars, Sikhs, Jats and Pakhtuns (Pathans) did not join the mutiny and fought on the side of the British Army.
In between, until Najib-ul-Daula, the governor of Saharanpur, who later founded city of Najibabad, invaded the city with his army of Rohillas in 1757, and ruled here, leading to its wide spread development, though after his death in 1770, it was successively annexed by surrounding tribes of Rajputs, Gujjars, Sikhs and Gurkhas who ruled the region in quick succession, and lead to its steady downfall.
The British took control of the region from the Sikhs in 1849 and built Asia's largest cantonment in the region in Rawalpindi.
The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots was a four-day period during which Sikhs were massacred by members of the secular-centrist Congress Party of India; some estimates state that more than 2,000 were killed.
Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are well represented in Kampthi, with Buddhist, Hindus and Muslims being the majority.
After partition of India in 1947, Sikhs and Hindus migrated to India from West Punjab.
Kharabat (Kabul), an old district of Kabul Afghanistan close by to "Hinduguzar" (quarter of Hindu and Sikhs)
The village has a population of approximately 1426, predominately Jatt Sikhs from the Cheema clan and the Sidhu clan.
Despite the fact that him and Tej Singh revealed the entire plans of the Sikhs, the British Empire had great difficulty defeating the Sikhs at the Battle of Mudki.
Abdali after re-occupying Lahore received intelligence that great numbers of Sikhs had moved southwards, he immediately set out in pursuit.
Labana, a popular surname among the Labana community of the Sikhs
These symbols, worn by all baptized Sikhs of both sexes, are popularly known today as Five Ks: Kesh, unshorn hair; Kangha, the wooden comb; Kara, the iron (or steel) bracelet; Kirpan, the sword; and Kashara, the underwear.
In August the 29th Indian Brigade was secretly moved from Helles to ANZAC Cove, but were greeted by shellfire on landing on 5 August, and part of the 14th Sikhs had to wait until the next night to land.
When Sikhs attacked Rewari and captured the whole area, he with Shaikh Yar Mohammad Khan (Sardar of Maharaja) and elder son Qazi Mohammad Aman, were died during fighting inside the Haveli of Rao Gujar Mal on 22 Rajab 1179 AH / 1765 AD.
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: In this same fight with Sikhs, Qazi Ali Mardan ibn Qazi Ghulam Naqshband of Rewari was also died in his Haveli.
Kallidai has worked on various community projects with the Muslim Council of Britain, the Catholic Bishops Conference, Churches Together in England and Wales, the Church of England, Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the Network of Sikh Organisations, Sikhs in England, National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is in UK, Network of Buddhist Organisations, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe and the Jain Samaj Europe.
Set during the 18th century, the game explores how the nascent Sikh community was suffering under Mughal imperial rule and religious intolerance, and how the Sikhs rebelled against the Mughal empire to secure a future for their faith.
Swaranjit Singh Bajaj, the vice-president of SMCW, blamed the Sikh humorists such as Navjot Singh Sidhu and Khushwant Singh for perpetuating the stereotypical image of Sikhs.
Later, when, after the conquest of Sirhind by the Dal Khalsa in January 1764, the Sikhs started occupying territory, Nishananvali misi, under Dasaundha Singh and Sangat Singh, took possession of a long and narrow stretch of land south of the Sutlej, extending from Singhanvala in Firozpore district up to Shahabad with Ambala as the headquarters.
The 5 Banis are: Japji Sahib, Jaap Sahib, Anand Sahib, Benti Chaupai and Amrit Savaiye - these banis are usually recited daily by all devoted Sikhs in the early morning.
In 1763, for instance, one of Ahmad Shah Durrani’s generals, Jahan Khan, was defeated by the Sikhs at Sialkot and a number of his female relations and dependants fell into their hands.
The Sikh Temple Yuba City in Yuba City, California was opened in April 1980 and serves over 15,000 Sikhs in the area which is home to many Sikhs and Punjabis.
Punjab had gone through an era of Sikh persecution under the Mughal governor of Lahore Zakriya Khan from 1726 to 1745 A.D. The Sikhs of Punjab had taken refuge in the deserts of the Rajputana.
Syed Ahmad was influenced by Shah Abdul Aziz, son of Shah Waliullah and toured Afghanistan and the areas occupied by the Sikhs raising the banner of jihad and rallying the Pashtun tribes to his banner.
Charles Wilkins was one of the earliest Europeans to write about the Sikhs.
He is the nephew of His Holiness Sri Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji, Supreme Spiritual Head of Namdhari Sikhs.
This enabled him to extract tribute from less powerful chieftains, including Jats and other Sikhs, and ultimately to gain control of areas such as Peshawar and Kashmir.