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Dr Paramjit Singh Sehra was the first Indian to visit Antarctica. He worked for the Soviet Antarctic observatory and shared his experience there: eating seals, penguins and fish when rations were exhausted and drinking vodka to stay warm.
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Banda Singh Bahadur now getting claimed by every caste in India from Brahmins to Gurjars lmao
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This AI art generator is pretty good; prompt used here was Amritsar
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An account of a Georgian man who became Sikh through interacting with migrants:
“Erekle… who was quick to befriend the Sikhs when they arrived, has adopted their religion... Today he has not been formally baptized, but he speaks Punjabi well and wears a turban and a long beard”
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The founder of Kettle Chips, Cameron Healy, was a white 3HO Sikh; they were founded under the N.S. Khalsa Company. This company was sold in 2006 to a British private equity firm for $320 million.
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Puran Singh is quite well known for his poetry and literature work but often, his work as a chemist goes quite neglected.
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Sikh guards protecting Qing dynasty reformist fugitive, Kang You Wei, during his refuge in Singapore
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Bhai Dhanna Singh Chahal embarked on his ‘Cycle Yatra’ from 1930 to 1934; visiting 1000+ gurudwaras, whilst taking pictures and writing diary entries about them.
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Just found out about the existence of the Finnish bhangra scene
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Time for the Pakistani community to address this elephant in the room. I have to yet to see any leader from their community talk about this issue.
Pakistani Perpetrators continue targeting Sikh females and openly go round stating they will do.
The purpose of this post is to highlight that this isn’t going to stop, until we as a community understand how perpetrators will not stop targeting our sisters, and daughters.
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A meeting between the Taliban and local Afghan Sikhs, where a Taliban guard spat at a Sikh. This resulted in a scuffle between the Sikhs and the Taliban, ending up with the Taliban chased off by the Sikhs whilst the Sikhs were shouting Jaikare.
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Simmarpal Singh is known as 'the peanut prince of Argentina' and successfully implemented large-scale agriculture there with 40,000 hectares under cultivation, as the head of Olam Argentina.
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“Could you tell me a bit about Sikh statehood?”
“Of course, it all started when the Bavarian Illuminati and Rothschilds colluded with Mughal nobles to dismantle Banda Singh Bahadur’s rebellion.”
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Funny how every journalist against the farmers protest looks like they wouldn’t even be able to work a day in the fields lmfao
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The Gurudwara in Panama City was set up in 1986 by both Punjabi Sikhs and Sindhis, descendants of those who worked on the Panama Canal. Many of the regular attendants are 3rd and 4th generation Sikhs.
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A Buddhist shrine in Chungthang, Sikkim, containing images of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
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A lot of Punjabi migrants have the most random origin stories. Reminded of a Sikh migrant who got dumped in the Balkans by a travel agent, worked in the circus in Serbia and as a veteran circus worker, helped Punjabis get jobs in the circuses of Northern Italy.
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A Gurudwara built in modernist fashion: Gurudwara Nirmal Kutiya, Jalandhar
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In Stalin’s first meeting with the Indian Ambassador of USSR, he enquired as to why Sri Lanka was a separate country to India and laughed when given no proper explanation. He then asked about whether the Maldives belonged to India.
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During the late 80s, Doordarshan Jalandhar accepted to having:
- All Hindi programmes and graphics cancelled
- No 'namaskar’ at the end of the news bulletin
- Only Sikh announcers with kesari dupattas and turbans with no Hindi
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This case was actually protested against by Sikhs about a year ago. Nihangs came to Mangu Math, associated with Guru Nanak Dev Ji, to protest against the future demolition of the building.
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‘Punjabi Literature’ by the Russian author, I. Serebryakov, is an analysis of Punjabi literature from the lens of Soviet historiography. He explores Punjabi folk poems to modern day poets.
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In the early 1900s, Chanchal Singh was among one of the first Sikh migrants to move to Uruguay due to being rejected from other countries. He would marry a Spanish labourer's daughter and as he got older, he'd be left with very limited Punjabi skills
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Ex-officer and Jat leader from Haryana, Hawa Singh Sangwan, announced his formal initiation in Sikhi a few days ago (Bhagat Dhanna’s birthday) and has even set up a mission named after Bhagat Dhanna for the parchar of Sikhi
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Reminder that historic Sikh architecture is routinely being ruined
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Punjabiyat supporters romanticise an administrative unit made by the British just to make governing more efficient. In reality, large swathes of the region covered here isn’t even Punjabi speaking.
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Lee Kuan Yew on the Sikhs of Singapore:
‘It is very unlikely… that we are going to have a homogenous society… I noticed that there are deep and abiding roots in… religion. One hundred years from now, it is most likely that we will have a lot of Sikhs still wearing turbans.’
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Afghan Sikhs serving in the Army of Afghanistan as part of compulsory military service (1970s)
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The inside of a caravanserai (traveller's inn) for Indian traders in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, sometime in the 1890s
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This is Sukhi Chahal at a dargah a few months ago, now attempting to LARP as a religious Sikh lmao
Our Guru Teg Bahadur Ji sacrificed his life for protecting the helpless Hindus & Sikhs against the tyranny of Aurangzeb. India has Cities, Towns, Roads & Lanes named after that Barbarian. It’s a matter of Shame for every Sikh & Hindu in India.
#EraseAurangzeb
from everywhere ASAP
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Akal Sena officers on the march, led by Ishar Singh Majhail (1947)
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A few coins with Gurmukhi inscriptions I found at a car boot sale about a year ago for £5:
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During 1988-89, several Dalits in Uttar Pradesh became Sikh to become armed due to attacks from the goons of Muslim landlords. Shiv Sena members were opposed to this, leading to a confrontation between Shiv Sainiks and Sikhs.
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Solidarity with Sikhs always comes before solidarity with other faiths. I do not care about faux Punjabi unity but I do care about Sikhs amongst Sikligars, Vanjaras, Mazhabis, Agraharis, Axomiyas, Dakhanis, Sindhis, Kashmiris and all other Sikh communities.
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'Guru Gobind Singh deliberately chose Baisakhi as the day for founding the Khalsa with the significance of ushering in the dawn of a new and regenerated society which was to rise in accordance with the Phoenix principle, the principle of resurrection' - Sirdar Kapur Singh
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Local folk genealogy amongst the Kurmi Sikhs of Shivnagar in northern Bihar traces back their lineage to Sukha Singh, the granthi of Patna Sahib and author of Gurbilas Patshahi 10.
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An old picture of Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib, Chamkaur Sahib. Would be considered unconventional architecture today but has been modified heavily.
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Major HPS Ahluwalia during his ascent of Mount Everest:
“I stood there looking at the Tibetan plateau and Central Asia and thought of the wars that had been fought there, of Genghis Khan, and I thought, someday I will go there"
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Sukhwinder Singh Gora on KCF operations: ‘For a Singh who is on the run, it is essential to read bani. Reading history is now not so very relevant — that is for free men. Now is the time to create history. We live outdoors in the tall grass and among the sugar cane.’
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One rupee note of the Panth Azad Fund shown with Master Tara Singh. Inscribed on it: 'Degh Tegh Fateh, Nusrat Bedrang, Yaft az Nanak, Guru Gobind Singh'
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This is what happens when your background reading consists of OpIndia articles
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Sardar Krishna Singh was part of the anti-communist pro-Bhumihar senas that once pervaded the rural Bihari countryside; an ex-INC MLA who converted to Sikhi.
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Ajit Singh Hoogan was one of the most prominent architects of Zanzibar, Tanzania; helping construct schools, hospitals, museums, alongside popularising motifs around the historic Stone Town.
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The art of traditional mud wall decorations in Punjab and other North Indian states is known as Chowk Purana. These motifs are created on the outside of clay houses and are both used as interior and exterior decorations.
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Historical view of the Gol Kothi in Kapurthala state; built by Raja Fateh Singh
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Piara Singh Gill (centre, second row), alongside other famous physicists including J.R Oppenheimer, at the physicist Robert Millikan’s 80th birthday.
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The Punjabi Suba plan proposed by Shiromani Akali Dal (pre-1966):
Additions: Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Sirsa, Fatehabad, parts of Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh districts
Reductions: Pathankot district
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An interesting Gurmukhi calligraphy style on the cover of Balraj Sahni’s Mera Pakistani Safarnama; purposefully made to look similar to the Nastaliq calligraphy style used for Urdu
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Amar Singh Nihang was one of the passengers upon the Komagata Maru, travelling to Canada. Upon arrival back to Kolkata, he clashed with British police and was eventually arrested and tortured in jail, leading to his death in 1918.
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A hukamnama dated from 1698, which talks about the Guru's congregations being spread to the four corners of the earth and says the Khalsa Panth is created to protect dharma
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Sikh Village, Secunderabad is a neighbourhood in Telangana, named after the Sikh units that served under Hyderabad State. The local gurudwara here contains a saroop of SGGS from Lahore with rare lithography.
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Aurora Borealis outside Akaljot Sahib, Yukon, Canada; quite an apt name.
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Sohni Mahiwal was an Indo-Russian film, featuring Sunny Deol. The film was released in Russian theatres under the name ‘Legend of Love.’ Strange to think how this piece of Punjabi folklore became somewhat popular in Russia.
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Giani Ditt Singh on Sikh soldiers fighting abroad:
‘Wherever they go, they promptly bring victory with the sword.
They went to Manchuria and China and liberated Burma.
They whose strength shook Kabul and Kandahar.
They conquered Egypt and fought in Chitral.’
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Devastated with leaving behind fertile canal colony land and religious sites in Pakistan; Sikh jathas were prepared to reinvade Lahore and West Punjab after the Partition.
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The history of Christians in Punjab alongside census records, fears about Sikhs converting to Christianity, crypto-Christians, rapid church construction among others are explored in depth in my article:
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During Operation Blue Star, when Longowal was confronted by army officers, he asked the officers to kill him since they had massacred innocent pilgrims. Shortly after, he was arrested.
(Source: Giani Kirpal Singh's Eye Witness Account Of Operation Blue Star)
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Veer Savarkar, the father of the modern Hindutva movement, supported the Sikhs of Punjab to establish their own Sikhistan as opposed to a Pakistan.
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A Sikh Bullock-cart driver transporting goods in Serdang, Malaysia in 1944
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Sikligar Sikhs are Sikhs who belong a community of blacksmiths and were historically known for producing weapons. They are spread throughout India but considerable populations live in Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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The village Rode, birthplace of Sant Bhindranwale, was once a large communist stronghold, home to Naxalite leaders such as Sudagar Singh Rode. Alongside Dhudike, Moga and Bathinda, these areas once formed a Naxal belt in Punjab.
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The Green Revolution effects were uneven throughout Punjab; farmers from the Majha region had consistently low average incomes compared to farmers from Malwa. This divide was even visible amongst Sikh politics as most Khalistanis were from Majha and most Akali leaders from Malwa.
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Sikh-Jat relations were imperative to weakening the strength of the Mughals and Rohillas. Sikh raids helped create a power vacuum in the upper Gangetic region whilst increasing Sikh financial strength and prestige.
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An anti-motor car leaflet produced by Bhagat Puran Singh in 1987, one of the many environmental leaflets produced by him. One of the chapters even alludes to Delhi being a future deathtrap due to its over-dependence on cars.
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One of the more popular non-Punjabi books in Punjab is Mera Dagestan, written by the Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, in his native language of Avar, containing short stories on Dagestan.
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Jalandhar is 70% Christian according to this massive intellectual lmao
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I request everyone to read this. A thread by a Sikh documenting the everyday discrimination he receives whilst living in Kashmir.
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Rao Bahadur Rao Girraj Singh of Kuchesar State, Uttar Pradesh with his nobles and top officers. He married Rani Rajbans Kaur of Bhadaur and converted to Sikhi. Since then, the family have been devoted Sikhs.
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Ganda Singh was a Ghadarite who lived in China and had contact with the Chinese nationalist general of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-Shek. He was famous for his anti-British, pro-Akali speech, later even becoming a Babbar Akali himself.
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Swami Ram Tirath (not to be confused with Swami Rama Tirtha; born in 1873) was a Sanskrit scholar and Hindu theologian who authored a large number of books about Vedanta. Later in his life, he decided to follow Sikhi and kept his hair untrimmed.
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Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal is a Nirmala Sikh environmentalist, who spearheaded a campaign for cleaning the 110 miles long Kali Bein tributary. It is thought Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji disappeared in this rivulet, only to reappear after 3 days.
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The Faridkot princely state was home to some of the most interesting Gothic Revival architecture in the Indian subcontinent. Pictured below is the Raj Mahal building, used as a palace for the royal family
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During the era of Singh-Sabha pamphlets, Kesar Singh of Multan wrote a pamphlet named ‘The Progress of Japan.’
The pamphlet compared the samurai bushido to the Khalsa rehit and called for Sikhs to follow the influence of Japan in development, war and honour.
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In the 1920s, Khalsa College, Amritsar had created a housing colony, a dairy and many other co-operatives. The college’s activities were described as ‘equal to a modern state’ and helped provide cheaper commodities for the locals. Shown below is the dairy and housing colony.
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AAP’s mimicry of Western anti-corruption politics has gone dreadfully wrong. At the very least, VIPs should’ve been given notice to hire private security and the list should’ve been kept confidential. Death of Sidhu Moosewala is totally on the hands of AAP.
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh was responsible for the transformation of Amritsar in a trade hub. Baron Hugel described it as the 'richest city in the northern India' and is 'the most bustling of all cities in the Punjab.'
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Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was gifted a Maybach car alongside various German weapons by Adolf Hitler. This is thought to be a diplomatic gesture to make Patiala neutral, in the event of war between Germany and the British Empire
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I’ve seen plenty of terrible brutalist buildings in Punjab but Bhai Gurdas Library in GNDU has to be the worst I’ve ever seen.
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The average age of kharkus surveyed in Majha was 22; 70% were aged between 18-25.
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