Three hundred Sikh cavaliers in battle array accompanied Banda to a distance of eight kilometers to give him final send off. |
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The Sikh protesters objected to violent scenes in the play being set in a gurdwara and to the depiction of the giani as an out of touch buffoon. |
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Nanak insisted that every Sikh house should serve as a place of love and devotion, a true guest house. |
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It is very nice to know that he is doing good for the Sikh community by spreading the word of god. |
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But he's careful not to proselytise, to seek converts to the Sikh tradition. |
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If there is no clergy with binding ecclesiastical authority, then each Sikh has to cultivate and heed his own conscience. |
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His statement had caused outrage and anger in both the Hindu and Sikh communities. |
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By putting Guru Granth Sahib in Hindu mandirs, simple Sikh villagers will begin to go to pay obeisance regularly. |
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The whole of the Sikh army had been divided into bands, which were headed by a leader who was known as Jathedar. |
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Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab celebrate the tricentenary of the Sikh holy book the Guru Granth Sahib. |
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The AISAD local unit has requested the SGPC to review its decision of not sending Sikh jathas to Pakistan. |
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Though born and brought up in a conservative Sikh family in Norway, she always had a dream of acting in a Bollywood film. |
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Because of their Kesh, Sikh men wear their hair tied up in a bun and hidden by a turban. |
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Khandey Kee Pahul ceremony initiates a willing Sikh into the Order of the Khalsa. |
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A new generation of fervent Sikh preachers is being educated in this seminary near Amritsar. |
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I remember clearly the red turban of the Sikh bandmaster but can't recollect anything sensible about the rest of the band. |
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And therein lie the roots of the Sikh struggle for autonomy in India today. |
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She said that her son had been beguiled into joining the Sikh bands, but was not a Sikh at heart. |
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Sean grew up in a middle-class Sikh family and devoted his teens to punk rap. |
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Although a devout Sikh, he took part in religious acts with Muslims and Hindus as well. |
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Twenty years ago this week the India army stormed the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion. |
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It is difficult for us to see any reason why a Jew may not wear his yarmulke in court or a Sikh his turban. |
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Although the Sikh God is beyond description Sikhs feel able to pray to God as a person and a friend who cares for them. |
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An important ceremony for the Sikhs is the baptism, or initiation into the Sikh religion. |
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The presentations focused on general principles and beliefs of Sikhism and the Sikh identity. |
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The gurudwaras, or Sikh temples, have always been decorated with pictures of Hindu devas and devis. |
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I noticed a number of Sikh families among the pilgrims and decided to approach them. |
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London is the hub of the Indian community and culture in Europe, and home to the largest Hindu and Sikh temples outside India. |
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This hymn-singing is called Kirtan, and is an essential part of Sikh worship. |
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Phulkaris and baghs are commonly worn by Hindu and Sikh women all over Punjab mainly during festivals. |
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As recently as the nineteenth century, much of the area was united under the Sikh nation of Ranjit Singh. |
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Harbans recently met his brothers by chance at Lahore during a pilgrimage tour to Sikh shrines in Pakistan. |
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Tucked between the Kodandarama temple and Manchala Street, it is home to a handful of Sikh families. |
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This month Gravesend's Sikh community is celebrating its most important festival Vaisahki, the birth of its religion. |
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Silinder Pardesi started his singing career at a very young age, singing in Sikh temples and being influenced by his idol Mohd. |
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At the temples, Hindu and Sikh pilgrims wrap rice in a thin pink scarf and place it in the water to be cooked, blessed and then eaten. |
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In addition, the Sikh Sabha movement produced a revival in Sikh culture, language, and literature. |
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Meanwhile, Sikh families in Kunduz can celebrate their religious Baisakhi festival for the first time in 15 years. |
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The Sikh history, in all its varied phases, unfolds the genius of the Sikhs as a dynamic community. |
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The applicant was a Sikh activist whom the Home Secretary had ordered to be deported to India. |
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Like many other Sikh Americans, Amric Singh, wants to earn an honest living while helping his surrounding community. |
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It perfectly matched my shirt, and a tall Sikh boy with an insurmountable grin stopped to tie it on. |
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If, in the face of these facts, somebody still insists that the boundaries of the Sikh religion are blurred, it is sheer pertinacity. |
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The Sikh Coalition would also like to encourage all Sikhs to wear the kirpan freely. |
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And here, too, places of worship sprout, Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and Sikh gurudwaras. |
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At the Sikh Sunday school, students learn to read and write Punjabi, the language of the Punjab region of India, where Sikhism was born. |
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A Granthi is expected to be an initiated member of the Sikh Khalsa who lives a life that exemplifies the ideals of the Khalsa. |
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For about a half century of Sikh rule, the Sikhs practised their religion and looked after their sacred places with devotion and dignity. |
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The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday. |
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He also condemned the presentation of a siropa at a club, saying Sikh religious honours are strictly to be extended at gurdwaras. |
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They must understand that one of their functions is to ensure the sustained propagation of the Sikh religion. |
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As Sikhs tie their turbans each day, they should be heedful that it represents a very real commitment to the founders of the Sikh faith. |
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All the initiated Sikhs form Panth, whereas all the members of a Sikh congregation form a Sangat or Sikh Sangat. |
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The frontier between India and Pakistan ran through the Sikh homeland of the Punjab. |
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The community of men and women who have been initiated into the Sikh faith is the Khalsa. |
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The turban is an article of faith and must be worn by all baptized Sikh males to cover their unshorn hair. |
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Mata Gujri was an inspiring force during one of the most difficult times in Sikh history. |
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I wear a kara, I wore a turban to my brother's wedding and I use the generic Sikh middle name of Singh. |
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The letter E in the Sikh script, Gurmukhi, is pronounced Ong and signifies the first intimations of the Divinity to the human mind. |
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The turbans of the doormen are the indigo of Sikh warriors, their tunics have sashes in lipstick vermilion. |
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They were of the Sikh gurus and their followers, teaching, fighting and suffering, but mainly suffering. |
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Then in 1708 the last Sikh guru, Gobind Singh was assassinated by a local Mughal commander. |
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The religious compositions of the Sikh gurus combine aspects of classical Indian music with popular Punjabi folk tunes. |
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The authors of the verses of the Guru Grantha Sahib are not only the Sikh gurus, but also Hindu poet-saints. |
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Bawa's family is directly descended from the family of the third Sikh guru. |
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Of the 10 Sikh gurus, nine visited the town, the only exception being Guru Angad Dev. |
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Like Ashtalakshmi panel, the panel of Sikh gurus is very much in demand, says Ms. Krishnan. |
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The holy book was enjoined upon the Sikhs as the eternal and spiritual Guru by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last Sikh guru. |
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They learn about Sikh history, including the teachings of the 10 gurus, which form the foundation of the faith. |
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The Sikh gurdwaras were the centres of free thought and the integrated religio-political Sikh activities. |
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So the Sikh protesters in Birmingham got their way, and succeeded in forcing a theatre to close a play they took exception to. |
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The folk epics and romances, Sikh sacred literature, and poetic compositions of the Sufis are all part of a literary tradition that continues today. |
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This was also the spirit as hundreds of people from the Sikh community gathered at the Gurudwara at Thevara to offer prayers on Baisakhi day on Sunday. |
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Sikh leaders, gurus and elites were written about, but not dissenting movements, religious mobilisations, and the diversity of cultures within Sikhism itself. |
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Is it possible to have a Sikh chatline where you can talk about the religion, where you can put your ideas together and have more information on Sikhism. |
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Hundreds of thousands who had already arrived crowded into the temple on Tuesday behind the president to view the book, a collection of verses by Sikh gurus of the past. |
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Like the Hindu temples and the Sikh gurdwaras, the mosque as an architectural type, despite centuries of evolution, is a novelty in North America. |
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Likewise, Sikh women should not drape themselves in sarees which were Hindu, but in salwar-kameez which are Punjabi, nor wear bindis on their foreheads. |
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You pass crowded markets with halal meat shops and women in burkhas and Sikh grandmothers headed to the gurudwara and Hindu mothers pushing their children in strollers. |
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Born in Malaysia to a family of Sikh performers, he now lives in Adelaide. |
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Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers. |
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For the first time, Sikh community calligraphers joined Japanese calligraphers in writing messages of Peace and Friendship in Gurmukhi on beautiful Japanese lanterns. |
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We were the only Sikhs in our entire school, and there was only one other Sikh family in Racine, the town where we lived. |
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Or, say, Oak Creek, Wis., where a gunman shot and killed six at a Sikh temple in August. |
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She was transplanted from Kenya as a toddler to Britain where her father was turned down for a position at Barclay's Bank in London because he was a Sikh. |
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In 2007, when Congress overwhelmingly passed a resolution recognizing the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali, Jindal abstained. |
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It also made me aware of the existence of Sikh scholarship and debunked forever the popular notion of a Sikh being simply an opsimath and Sikh history merely a melange of events adding up to anarchy. |
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Jaz, a newly arrived Sikh student was informed that his path to acceptance in his new school involved rounding up stink bugs and putting them in Mong's bag. |
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That the Sikh novitiates include a sizable number of Muslims is shown by inclusion in this clause of the taboos as to the sanctity of graves, shirni, etc. |
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At present there are no checks of any kind on a newcomer to any part of India arriving from another part of India, even if the person is a Punjabi Sikh. |
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The Epilogue provides a synoptic survey of the growth of Sikh faith and its consolidation in one of the most turbulent periods of the Indian history. |
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A middle-aged Sikh offered to take me into town on a cycle rickshaw. |
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The Sikh Coalition would like to thank the Hate Free Zone for helping to protect the pillars of our democracy by exercising the voice of the people. |
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The teens then repeatedly punched the Sikh man, threw a bottle at him and ran off. |
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Perhaps, I am one of the few South Indian Brahmins who has had a conducted tour of so many gurdwaras from a celebrated Sikh historian and possibly a Sikh theologian. |
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Maestro of Sikh music, Dya Singh performs a special concert in Byron. |
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Recently, a Sikh student in Montreal was forbidden from attending his school if he wore his kirpan, a dagger Sikhs are obligated to carry as a part of their faith. |
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And many of my Sikh friends have shared with me a history of racial slurs and menacing stares they have endured over the years. |
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Vaisakh, in April, marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year and also is of special importance for Sikhs, since it commemorates the founding of the Sikh Khalsa. |
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The anti-immigrants violence in the Indian state of Assam and the Sikh shooting in Wisconsin both come from the hate of the other. |
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It is worn so a Sikh can stand out from others, can be approachable and can be identifiable in society. |
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The great Sikh martyr Baba Deep Singh laid down his life in revenge. |
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The highest proportion of Sikh people was in Bradford North, while Shipley has the highest number of people who said they did not follow a religion. |
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Just this February, a Sikh gurdwara was mistaken for a mosque and vandalized in a suburb of Detroit. |
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Just as the ancient sages can't be blamed for the ideology of the Sangh Parivar, the actions of these so-called leaders cannot be traced to the Sikh values. |
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In 2004, two Sikh men were viciously beaten by young white assailants while walking on the sidewalk. |
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The Community Relations program area is also responsible for coalition building with likeminded organizations and gurdwaras, the Sikh houses of worship. |
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The Gurudwara has facilities for lodging and boarding for visitors and Sikh gurus who come from outside Bangalore, during cultural and religious meets. |
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Because of his intimate knowledge of the Sikh society and his being a near contemporary of Sri Guru Nanak, his writings are historically authentic and reliable. |
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Under their leader, Akali Phula Singh, they won many battles for the Sikh Confederacy during the early 19th century. |
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Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest Sikh shrine. |
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The Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib includes suggestions on how a Sikh should perform constant Bhakti. |
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While emphasizing Bhakti, the Sikh Gurus also taught that the spiritual life and secular householder life are intertwined. |
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Sikh leaders who were unanimous in their opposition to Pakistan wanted a Sikh state to be created. |
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Kesh Sambhal Prachar Sanstha, the NGO's main aim behind this extravaganza is to motivate Sikh youth to abide by Sikh Maryada or Sikhism. |
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A 10-year-old Sikh boy at Arkleston Primary in Renfrew was given permission to carry the kirpan under his clothes for religious reasons. |
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Cheema involved an on-going dispute between a local school board and Sikh parents who wished to send their children to school wearing kirpans. |
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The Sikh gurus established a mechanism which allowed the Sikh religion to react as a community to changing circumstances. |
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According to Sewa Singh Kalsi, the Sikh people have gained a reputation through history for being. |
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Since 2010, the Sikh Directory has organized The Sikh Awards, the first Sikh award ceremony in the world. |
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Despite being very small in numbers, the often wealthy mercantile Khatri and Arora castes wield considerable influence within the Sikh community. |
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A Sikh, mistaken for a Middle Easterner because of his beard and turban, was killed. |
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Its main subjects are the ten Sikh gurus and stories from Guru Nanak's Janamsakhis. |
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In the last two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded fighting for the British Empire. |
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In an attempt to foster Sikh leaders in the Western world, youth initiatives by a number of organisations exist. |
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In 1857, the Bengal Army had 86,000 men, of which 12,000 were European, 16,000 Sikh and 1,500 Gurkha. |
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Brar has come as a rude shock to intelligence agencies which have been suspicious that Sikh militants are trying to regroup in foreign countries. |
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Carried behind on a decorative float is the Sikh holy book The Guru Granth Sahib, together with priests singing hymns. |
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More than 2,000 people went to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara, or Sikh Temple, in Springwood, Huddersfield, to join the celebrations. |
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For the polar opposite of Isabelle, look no further than whoever scrawled slogans of hate on a new Sikh temple. |
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A Sikh couple that wishes to divorce may be able to do so in a civil court. |
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The initiated Sikh, considered reborn, is referred to as Khalsa Sikh, while those who do not get baptized are referred to as Sahajdhari Sikhs. |
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Even though the core Sikh spiritual philosophy was never affected, the followers now began to develop a political identity. |
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The Sikh Khalsa's rise to power began in the 17th century during a time of growing militancy against Mughal rule. |
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Thus, the SGPC became the modern version of the Guru Panth given that the committee consisted of elected Sikh men and women. |
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These elected members were paid employees who simply oversaw the activities taking place in Sikh historic sites. |
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The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation. |
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Both Sikh and Hindu religions are represented significantly higher than in the rest of the West Midlands in general. |
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There are a Sikh gurdwara and a Hindu mandir, both in Leith, and a Brahma Kumaris centre in the Polwarth area. |
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The Sikh community is served by the Guru Nanak Gurdwara on Victoria Road, which serves its community in Dundee. |
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In the northwest South Asia, a large region was consolidated into the Sikh Empire by Ranjit Singh. |
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Maharaja Ranjeet Singh of the Sikh empire of the first half of the 19th century successfully established a secular rule in the Punjab. |
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She alleged that the Haryana Government has legislated the Haryana Sikh Gurdwaras Bill, 2014 for petty political gains. |
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The Amritsar-based SGPC is a mini-parliament of Sikh religious affairs which controls gurdwaras across Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. |
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Members of the Sikh community gathered in Handsworth Park for the colourful event organised by the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras in Birmingham. |
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Sikhs warned the British government that the morale of Sikh troops in the British Army would be affected if Pakistan was forced on them. |
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Giani Kartar Singh drafted the scheme of a separate Sikh state if India was divided. |
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However, the Sikh state being proposed was for an area where no religion was in absolute majority. |
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By early September the Sikh leaders accepted both the long term and interim proposals despite their earlier rejection. |
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The Punjab Border Commission was to draw a border through the middle of an area home to the Sikh community. |
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In 1813 the Sikh army occupied Guler State, and Raja Bhup Singh became a vassal of the Sikhs. |
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The distinct turban that differentiates a Sikh from other turban wearers is a relic of the rules of the British Indian Army. |
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According to Mahmud, the British did not discover the Martial race of the Sikh, it was rather created by the British. |
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The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice. |
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Canada Post honoured Sikh Canadians with a commemorative stamp in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of Vaisakhi. |
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One who calls himself a Sikh of the Guru, the True Guru, shall rise in the early morning hours and meditate on the Lord's Name. |
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The jori and sarinda were introduced to Sikh devotional music by Guru Arjan. |
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During the Raj, semiskilled Sikh artisans were transported from the Punjab to British East Africa to help build railroads. |
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Italy is a rapidly growing destination for Sikh migration, with Reggio Emilia and Vicenza having significant Sikh population clusters. |
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The Sikh population has the lowest gender balance in India, with only 903 women per 1,000 men according to the 2011 Indian census. |
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The Sikh Gurus preached ethnic and social harmony, and Sikhs comprise a number of ethnic groups. |
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In January 1986, the Golden Temple was occupied by militants belonging to All India Sikh Students Federation and Damdami Taksal. |
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In November 2015, a Sarbat Khalsa, or congregation of the Sikh community was called in response to recent unrest in the Punjab region. |
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The Sarbat Khalsa adopted 13 resolutions to strengthen Sikh institutions and traditions. |
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This theme is evident in the Sikh festivals of Hola Mohalla and Vaisakhi, which feature marching and displays of valor. |
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The Sikh Golden temple, the Harmandir Sahib, is a building covered with gold. |
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A Sikh is encouraged not to live as a recluse, beggar, monk, nun, celibate, or in any similar vein. |
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The places in which Sikh communities are found include Britain, East Africa, Canada, the United States, Malaysia and most European countries. |
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The Sikh Empire, ruled by members of the Sikh religion, was a political entity that governed the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent. |
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He primarily used his highly disciplined Sikh Khalsa Army that he trained and equipped with modern military technologies and technique. |
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In the Punjab, the Sikh princes crucially helped the British by providing both soldiers and support. |
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However, the same article also guarantees the right of members of the Sikh faith to bear a Kirpan. |
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In white ankle socks and with a golden shawl covering her head, the Queen stepped purposefully into the Sikh prayer hall. |
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He lived in Sikh shrines and finally ended up as the head granthi at Dhaka's Gurdwara Nanak Shahi. |
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Sikhism is based on the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak, the first Guru, and the ten successive Sikh gurus. |
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Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru and the founder of Sikhism, was a Bhakti saint. |
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This was developed into the concept of the Saint Soldier by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. |
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Each guru added to and reinforced the message taught by the previous, resulting in the creation of the Sikh religion. |
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The text played a significant role in Sikh history, but in modern times parts of the text have seen antipathy and discussion among Sikhs. |
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In 2003, the SGPC, the Sikh organisation in charge of upkeep of the historical gurdwaras of Punjab, adopted Nanakshahi calendar. |
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According to Sikh religious rites, neither husband nor wife is permitted to divorce unless special circumstances arise. |
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Keeping long hair is a basic tenet of the Sikh religion and is one of the five Ks which the last Sikh guru Gobind Singh instructed his followers to adopt. |
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Visitors to Gurdwaras are expected to remove their shoes and cover their heads as signs of respect to the sovereignty of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book. |
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David Cameron visited a Sikh temple to mark the Vaisakhi festival. |
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The exhibition, which is on show in galleries 12 and 13, also features the five Ks, symbols of the Sikh faith given to youngsters at the Khalsa initiation ceremony. |
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Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund overturned a 1925 Oregon law banning the wearing of turbans by teachers and government officials. |
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In 2002 the names of all Sikh VC and George Cross recipients were inscribed on the monument of the Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill, next to Buckingham Palace. |
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The Sikh school adapted Kangra painting to Sikh needs and ideals. |
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Although the Sikh Gurus and Sikh religious teachings criticize the hierarchy of the caste system, the caste system is still present in some Sikh communities. |
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In October, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards. |
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Last week a note forwarded by the Intelligence Bureau to the ministry of home affairs spoke about the regrouping strategy of Sikh militant groups. |
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Brar said his attackers were Sikh and the weapon was a kirpan. |
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The Haryana Government on July 11 passed a bill in the state assembly to create an independent committee, HSGPC to monitor Sikh Gurdwaras in the state. |
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There are also Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities. |
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Other Sikh Gurus also denounced the hierarchy of the caste system. |
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Despite that social stratification exists in the Sikh community. |
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In 1953, Sikh leader, Master Tara Singh, succeeded in persuading the Indian Government to include Sikh castes of the converted untouchables in the list of scheduled castes. |
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According to the Scottish Sikh Association, the first Sikhs settled in Glasgow in the early 1920s with the first Gurdwara established on South Portland Street. |
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The Sikh diaspora has been most successful in North America. |
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Subsequently, the Sikh leaders started demanding more autonomy for the states, alleging that the Central government was discriminating against Punjab. |
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He placed an advertisement in The New York Times proclaiming the formation of Khalistan and was able to collect millions of dollars from the Sikh diaspora. |
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There are Sikh communities in East and West London, particularly in Southall, home to one of the largest Sikh populations and the largest Sikh temple outside India. |
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Sikh communities are in East and West London, particularly Southall in the western borough of Ealing, which is also home to the largest Sikh temple in the capital. |
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In Sikh worldview, the everyday world is part of the Infinite Reality, increased spiritual awareness leads to increased and vibrant participation in the everyday world. |
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Lord Wavell had stated in February 1946 that Gurdaspur had to go with the Amritsar district, and the latter could not be in Pakistan due to its Sikh religious shrines. |
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In contrast, while other faiths have been arguing in recent times on female priest ordination, women have been leading prayers at Sikh temples since the founding of Sikhism. |
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Hunting scenes and portraits are also common in Sikh painting. |
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Vaisakhi is one of the most important festivals of Sikhs, while other significant festivals commemorate the birth, lives of the Gurus and Sikh martyrs. |
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The Sikh religion does not place great importance on pilgrimage. |
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There are also two Sikh temples, one in Fenton and one in Stoke. |
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This was promised to Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Jawaharlal Nehru, in return for Sikh political support during negotiations for Indian independence. |
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According to Katherine Frank, Gandhi's assassination resulted in an explosion of violence against Sikh communities and the killing of thousands of Sikhs throughout India. |
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The Aarti and Sikh Ardas were carried out which was followed by performances from Rashmi, Rama, Panna, Bhumika, Priya Rayall, Ikra Zahoor, Tara Zahoor and Mirfat Ali. |
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Members of the Indian expatriate population have the option of worshiping at the large Hindu temple in the city, or at the Sikh gurdwara along United Nations Avenue. |
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Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests. |
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Sikh elders have appealed to the community and asked that the death threats be withdrawn. |
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Sikh jathas also came from Canada, Hong Kong and Shanghai to join the campaign. |
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Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign. |
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Sikh architecture is characterised by gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks, stone lanterns, ornate balusters and square roofs. |
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Sikh teaching emphasizes the principle of equality of all humans and rejects discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, and gender. |
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Sikh clergy consists of five Jathedars, one each from five takhts or sacred seats. |
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Sikh painting is a direct offshoot of the Kangra school of painting. |
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Sikh festivals such as Vaisakhi and Bandi Chhor are celebrated in those Canadian cities by the largest groups of followers in the world outside the Punjab. |
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Sikh migration from British India began in earnest during the second half of the 19th century, when the British completed their annexation of the Punjab. |
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