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📸 Heathrow Airport night shift worker in Southall having breakfast with his kids before they go to school. Circa 1983.
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Soooo is it fair to say the UK is descending into straight up race riots? White people literally going round hunting black and brown people?
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📸 Heathrow Airport night shift worker in Southall having breakfast with his kids before they go to school. Circa 1983.
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1870 India, The Punjab.
Photograph of a class in progress in a Government village school, possibly at Musang in the Punjab.
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The Tulwar of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. ⠀ ⠀⠀
Now in the care of the Royal family of Patiala.
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Today is the 160th birthday of the London Underground so I thought it be appropriate to bring the story of Amar Singh back to the timeline
#Thread
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1/ Jassa Singh Ahluwalia & his role in the history of Shri Harmandir Sahib (A Thread)
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A short
#thread
on the
#martyrdom
of Banda Singh Bahadur.
Ultimately, Banda Singh, along with his companions, was captured on this day, 7th December, 307 years ago in 1715.
They were ordered by the Emperor to be brought to Delhi on camels with disgrace and humiliation. (1) 1/
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Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab
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1950s/60s
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Wim Swaan
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Axe of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, housed at the Moti Bagh Palace Museum.
Photographed by Sondeep Shankar 2019
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There wasn't one Sikh in that room. Not one.
Had even a trace of one been present, that cowboy hat would've found no place.
The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji demands a certain reverence.
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Guru Govind Singh in combat with a lion
By the artist Shankarlal (Punjab, second half of the 20th Century)
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1/ Jassa Singh Ahluwalia & his role in the history of Shri Harmandir Sahib (A Thread)
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I was trying to hold back the tears but the point that the patka-vala next to him helps to tidy up his dastar, got me right in the feels 😢
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Sikhs & French villagers [Le Sart, France]. Date: 24 Jul 1915
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Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab
1950s/60s⠀
📸 Wim Swaan
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My guy has 200k+ followers but has no brain cells.
This is Waheguru, the Sikh's genderless idol they worship
BLASPHEMY
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1/ Jassa Singh Ahluwalia & his role in the history of Shri Harmandir Sahib (A Thread)
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab. circa. 1960s.
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📷 A village in the Hoshiarpur district of the Punjab, 1940s
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar.
15th January 1915
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"The Ten Sikh Gurus"
Ravi Varma Press, Malavli, Poona, circa 1925
Currently up for auction on Bonhams and expected to sell for somewhere between £800 - £1,200!
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Princess Indira Devi Kaur of Kapurthala became one of the most fashionable Punjabis of the 1930–40s, featuring in Vogue magazine. 1/10
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'The Golden Temple, Amritzur, India. 26 May 1878'
Marianne North (1830–1890)
British Library
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Sikh soldiers with the Dhan Dhan Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj in special room given in German prison camp, Altenburg, Stalag IV E : 27/06/1941.
These Sikh soldiers were captured in North Africa by Germany's Afrika Korps commanded by General Erwin Rommel
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A group of Sikh men inspect the engine of a car in Leicester, 1983.
📷 by Jurgen Schadberg.
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📸 Heathrow Airport night shift worker in Southall having breakfast with his kids before they go to school. Circa 1983.
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Original caption: "Sikh devotees sweep the floor of the sacred tank around the Harmandir Sahib during a massive kar seva of the Golden Temple complex in 2004."
Photo by Sondeep Shankar
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📸 The photo, entitled, "Heathrow Airport night shift worker in Southall having breakfast with his kids before they go to school" is from a wonderful 1983 book called (1/7)
#Thread
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📸Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib, 1970s.
The Gurudwara Sahib was built between 1832 and 1837 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. It is located on the banks of the Godavari River at the city of Nanded in the state of Maharashtra, India.
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Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab
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Wim Swaan
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1/ Jassa Singh Ahluwalia & his role in the history of Shri Harmandir Sahib (A Thread)
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'India - The Punjab', 1940, a silent teaching film distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. This segment shows food being made in a typical Punjabi home.
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"The historic Khanda associated with the first Amrit sanchar undertaken by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, 1699 AD at Keshgarh Sahib, Anandpur."
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Guru Gobind Singh Ji with a Falcon, Chitra Shala Steam Press, Poona, 1900
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab. circa. 1960s.
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Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab
1950s-60s; Wim Swaan
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab.
Brian Brake; photographer; 1960s
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'The Golden Temple, Amritzur, India. 26 May 1878'
Marianne North (1830–1890)
British Library
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab, circa 1940s
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Highly decorated Sikh WWI veterans at an British Indian army recruitment fair in Jalandhar district , Punjab , India during WWII.
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Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab
1950s/60s⠀
📸 Wim Swaan
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, January 1914.
From the Albert Kahn Archives.
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📸 Mahajarah Yavindar Singh wearing the Patiala Cartier necklace, featuring 2,930 diamonds, weighing approximately 1,000 carats, including a 234.65 carat yellow De Beers diamond. The 7th largest diamond in the world.
#A
#Thread
#TheLastImageIsWorthIt
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I hope this Singh gets to open his manufacturing plant one day.
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2 little Singhs chilling outside of a shop in Manchester, UK, 1950s.
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A year ago today, a charming little Singh captured the hearts of fans worldwide as he walked alongside Neymar Jr. before the World Cup match between Brazil and Serbia in Qatar.
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Sikh soldiers are singing religious chants outside their billets in Le Sart, France on 24th July 1915 before returning to the front.
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Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab
1950s-60s; Wim Swaan
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Sikhs & French villagers [Le Sart, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood. 24 Jul 1915
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Two Sikh men walking down Shaftesbury Avenue in London's Piccadilly, 1953.
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, January 1914.
From the Albert Kahn Archives.
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Dhall (sheild) of Guru Gobind Singh Ji preserved at Bhai Rupa Village with the descendants of Bhai Rup Chand
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Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab.
Brian Brake; photographer; 1960s
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🌙✨ Interested in exploring Sikh history but unsure where to begin? Or perhaps you're on the lookout for an engaging educational resource for your child, niece, or nephew? (1/5)
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Dastar of of Guru Hargobind in the collection of Sangha family of Drolli Bhai ki
📸 Sondeep Shankar
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A rare portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Ruler of the Punjab, 1791 to 1839. From a portrait by Jiwan Ram.
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Guru Gobind Singh Ji's hukumnama, dated 2nd October 1707, addressed to the sangat of Khara. ⠀ ⠀
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Weapons of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji
From left to right:
1. A forked and serrated khands with inscription in Gurmukhi - Ek Onkar, Sat Guru Prasad, Degh Tegh Fateh, Nusrat Badrang, Yaft Az Nanak Guru Gobind Singh.'
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Chess Championships at Sacred Heart Catholic School, Handsworth, Birmingham, Saturday 13th December 1975, Gurdev Singh
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1977, Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Bhinderwale becomes the Jathedar of Damdami Taksal after the passing of Sant Kartar Singh Ji.
#ParkashSinghBadal
looms behind.
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The causeway to the inner sanctum of Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab. ⠀ ⠀
1950s-60s; Wim Swann
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Sardar Sukha Singh and Sardar Mehtab Singh retaking the Golden Temple from Mughal occupation
Punjab, by the artist Trilok Singh (1914-90), mid-20th Century
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Sikh soldiers with the Dhan Dhan Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj in special room given in German prison camp, Altenburg, Stalag IV E : 27/06/1941. These Sikh soldiers were captured in North Africa by Germany's Afrika Korps (Deutsches Afrikakorps, DAK)
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Over the next few days people all around the world will celebrate the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, a revolutionary mystic.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji is known across the world by various names, illustrating the appropriation of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's universal message. 1/9
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Sikh farm workers employed by The Sacramento Valley Sugar Company in Sacramento, California USA, 1910.
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2 little Singhs chilling outside of a shop in Manchester, 1950s.
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📸 A Sikh family in the doorway of their house, Naylor Street, Manchester, 1962.
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An interesting early view of Sri Harmandir Sahib prior to the construction of the clock tower.
Amritsar, Punjab, early 1860s
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Sri Harmandir Sahib and clock tower viewed across the sarovar. Amritsar, Punjab, possibly by a French traveller, circa 1895
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