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Sentence Examples They celebrated the 338th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru of Sikhs, with a variety of functions on Sunday. In attempts to adhere to the most salient aspects of their religio-historical identity, Sikhs have built a gurdwara wherever they have migrated. I've been meeting with local Sikhs in the gurdwara, with churches and with different mosques. Indian Sikhs, he said, made up the largest part of Southall's ethnic community, and East African Indian Gujaratis dominated Leicester. The Guru had come to guide, govern and influence the lives of the Sikhs both in the temporal and the spiritual fields. During the eighteenth century, the Sikhs had to fight a guerilla war against huge forces. The kirpan has deep religious significance to devout Sikhs and is not a weapon. For about a half century of Sikh rule, the Sikhs practised their religion and looked after their sacred places with devotion and dignity. All the initiated Sikhs form Panth, whereas all the members of a Sikh congregation form a Sangat or Sikh Sangat. Gurmukhi is not only used by Sikhs but by Hindus as well as Muslims living in Punjab to represent their common spoken language, Punjabi. Significantly, half of the one lakh Indians here are Punjabis, comprising 35,000 Sikhs. Guru Nanak also taught his Sikhs the great value of earning an honest living. Even such a disaster as had overtaken them at Kup caused no despondency among the Sikhs. 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. At first they used their political power to drive Hindus and Sikhs out of the bureaucratic, economic and educational spheres. Sikhs try to avoid the five vices that make people self-centred, and build barriers against God in their lives. The Sikh history, in all its varied phases, unfolds the genius of the Sikhs as a dynamic community. Singh is used as a common surname and middle name in North India mainly by the Rajputs caste and the Sikhs. There are, of course, more recent books that enjoy scriptural status among such groups as the Sikhs and Mormons. A census reveals that 8,604 people in NSW have identified their faith as Sikhism and there are over 17,000 Sikhs across Australia. Show More Sentences Nearly all people that wear turbans in the United States are adherents of Sikhism and are called Sikhs. An important ceremony for the Sikhs is the baptism, or initiation into the Sikh religion. About 60 per cent of the voters are Jat Sikhs who normally vote for the Akali Dal. At night Sikhs illuminated and decorated their houses and Gurdwaras with candles and electric lights. I was told he was from the anjuman of Sikhs who travel around reciting marsia and salam in the traditions of Muharram. The secretary said that in the case of Sikhs, turban is unique compared to other religions. We later learned that they were properly called Sikhs and all had the same last name, Singh. Although the Sikh God is beyond description Sikhs feel able to pray to God as a person and a friend who cares for them. Muslims in India headed en masse for Pakistan, while Hindus and Sikhs made their way in the opposite direction. The Sikh Coalition would also like to encourage all Sikhs to wear the kirpan freely. Guru Nanak Dev, founder of the Sikhs, is said to have been influenced by both Hindu and Sufi saints. The Sikhs were also deprived of many historic shrines and holy places which were left in Pakistan. Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab celebrate the tricentenary of the Sikh holy book the Guru Granth Sahib. There were Biharis from the tribes of central India, and there were some Sikhs. Buddhists and Shintoists are Pagans, as are Hindus, Sikhs, and the animists who are found in all parts of the world. Which brings us back to the Sikhs, who before this incident in Birmingham were the model of a law-abiding minority community. The set of questions, mostly aimed at the intelligentsia, seek to form an opinion on migration of Sikhs from Kashmir. So, Baisakhi is an important festival for the Sikhs because it is a formal celebration of the brotherhood of their community. It fails to record as to how and why the Marathas, Jats, Sikhs and others rose in revolt. They took steps to divide Hindus and Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, upper castes and lower castes, Aryan North and Dravidian South. Show More Sentences Although idol worship is not indicated in Sikhism, many Sikhs attend Hindu temples. Orthodox Sikhs have been required to carry kirpans since the 17th century, and insist it is not a weapon. Since all Sikhs pledge to not cut their hair, Kesh reminds Sikhs of their equality, and removes reason for pride. Sikhs believe that God is inside every person, no matter how wicked they appear, and so everyone is capable of change. 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. In fact, Sikhs are even discriminated against when applying to join the NYPD because of their turbans and beards. The officers explained that those Sikhs had been lynched to death and that Singh ought to anticipate the same fate for himself. The first wrong thing to note here is that Carr appears to have played into the confusion of Sikhs and Muslims. India is the birthplace of Hinduism as well as Buddhism, motherland of Sikhs and Jains, the abode of more rishis, sadhus, mahatmas, and maharishis than any place on earth. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is the most popular of all the festivals from South Asia, and is also the occasion for celebrations by Jains and Sikhs as well as Hindus. Up to now, Sikhs forces were divided into 65 jathas. Nawab Kapur singh reorganised them into Eleven bands, each of course with its own name, flag and leader. The author does not know the name of the last guru of the Sikhs. After a very dull and rainy morning, things seemed to brighten up today, allowing the yearly ceremony by the Sikhs celebrating the birth of their guru to take place. As Rajdeep Singh noted, excluding Sikhs from the NYPD is counterproductive to the very idea of community-based policing. 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. 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. There have been certain exceptions, but the policy is tilted heavily to excluding Sikhs because of their beards and turbans. A young student in 1984, he maintains Blue Star and the massacres after Indira Gandhi's assassination created a religious revival among British Sikhs. Sikhs consider the Guru's langar as sacred and its food a sacrament. But some fashion-conscious Sikhs are reclaiming the individuality of their headdress. Show More Sentences Most of us hate the indignities of air travel but for some Americans, Sikhs especially, airport security is humiliating. For the unfamiliar, Sikhs are required by their faith to wear a turban, known as the Dastaar. We have been ruled by the Mughals, the Sikhs and the Dogras. Brightly coloured saris on graceful Indian women and striking turbans on erect Sikhs are not unfamiliar sights in our metropolitan areas or small college towns. We were the only Sikhs in our entire school, and there was only one other Sikh family in Racine, the town where we lived. Sikhs are coming forward in increasing numbers to press claims against the authorities and people are beginning to have faith in the judicial process. The recent waves of immigration have also led to an increasing number of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims. Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Sikhs believe in reincarnation and karma concepts found in Hinduism and Buddhism. Adherents of Sikhism are known as Sikhs, which means students or disciples of the Guru. However, the bulk of Sikhs in Scotland come from families who immigrated during the late 20th century. There are almost 10,000 Sikhs in Scotland and the majority live in Glasgow. New regiments, like the Sikhs and Baluchis, composed of Indians who, in British estimation, had demonstrated steadfastness, were formed. These communities developed as Sikhs migrated out of Punjab to fill in gaps in imperial labour markets. Sikhs also migrated to East Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom as well as United States and Australia. Bhindranwale and his accompanying followers, as well as many innocent Sikhs visiting the temple, were killed during the army's operations. Sikhs faced initial opposition from the Government in forming a linguistic state that other states in India were afforded. Sikhs grew as an organized community and under the 10th Guru the Sikhs developed a trained fighting force to defend their independence. The initiated Sikh, considered reborn, is referred to as Khalsa Sikh, while those who do not get baptized are referred to as Sahajdhari Sikhs. Many adherents of Sikhism do not undergo this ceremony, but still adhere to some components of the faith and identify as Sikhs. Show More Sentences Devout Sikhs are encouraged to begin the day with private meditations on the name of God. Sikhs do not believe in converting people but converts to Sikhism by choice are welcomed. He even had hopes for some teaching of Gurmukhi, the sacred tongue of the Sikhs. Since 1984, relations between Sikhs and Hindus have moved toward a rapprochement aided by economic prosperity. During the 1999 Vaisakhi, Sikhs worldwide celebrated the 300th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa. Sikhs emigrated from India after World War II, most going to the United Kingdom but many to North America. Italian Sikhs are generally involved in agriculture, agricultural processing, the manufacture of machine tools and horticulture. Punjabi Sikhs are engaged in a number of professions which include science, engineering and medicine. India's largest pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories, is headed by Sikhs. The Sikh Gurus preached ethnic and social harmony, and Sikhs comprise a number of ethnic groups. An order of Punjabi Sikhs, the Nihang or the Akalis, was formed during Ranjit Singh's time. Since Sikhism has never actively sought converts, the Sikhs have remained a relatively homogeneous ethnic group. Many Sikhs strongly maintain that the attack resulted in the desecration of the holiest Sikh shrine. Bhangra and Giddha are two forms of Punjabi folk dancing which have been adapted and pioneered by Sikhs. In 1813 the Sikh army occupied Guler State, and Raja Bhup Singh became a vassal of the Sikhs. Examples might include the Amish, Druze, Mormons, Sikhs, Yazidi and Zoroastrians. The Sikhs feared reinstatement of Mughal rule in northern India because they had been persecuted heavily in the past by the Mughal dynasty. Sikhs and Buddhists objected to the wording of Article 25 which terms them as Hindus with personal laws being applied to them. Sikhs travel to each of the gurudwaras in the city in a procession called a nagar kirtan. The new calendar is highly controversial among Sikhs and is not universally accepted. Show More Sentences It is estimated that around 3,000 Sikhs in Leeds take part in this annual event. For Sikhs, the Five Ks, or panj kakkar, are more than articles or badges of faith identity. The months leading up to the partition of India in 1947 were marked by conflict in the Punjab between Sikhs and Muslims. Sikhs will commonly enter the gurdwara, touch the ground before the holy scripture with their foreheads. The greater Punjab region is the historic homeland of the Sikhs, although significant communities exist around the world. There are many gurdwaras prominently constructed and maintained across India, as well as in almost every nation where Sikhs reside. The text played a significant role in Sikh history, but in modern times parts of the text have seen antipathy and discussion among Sikhs. Many countries, such as the United Kingdom, recognize Sikhs as a separate ethnic race on their census. The Dasam Granth is important to a great number of Sikhs, however it does not have the same authority as the Guru Granth Sahib. The Dasam Granth is a scripture of Sikhs which contains texts attributed to the Guru Gobind Singh. The Guru Grant Sahib is the holy scripture of the Sikhs, and regarded as the living Guru. There are also places of worship for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Sikhs and The Salvation Army, amongst others. However, the exponents of these are rarely to be found amongst the Sikhs who are conversant with all the Ragas in the Guru Granth Sahib. Sources said there were alerts that Sikhs and Indian Mujahidin militants could target the rally. The Sikhs attached themselves to the Indian state with the promise of religious and cultural autonomy. During the Partition developments Jinnah offered Sikhs to live in Pakistan with safeguards for their rights. Sikhs warned the British government that the morale of Sikh troops in the British Army would be affected if Pakistan was forced on them. Excluding the Amritsar and Gurdaspur distrcts of the Lahore Division from Pakistan would put a majority of Sikhs in India. The Punjab's population distribution was such that there was no line that could neatly divide Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. In the 2001 Census there were 6,572 Sikhs, predominantly in Glasgow and Edinburgh but also in Dundee and Aberdeen. Show More Sentences The British built a large British Indian Army, with the senior officers all British and many of the troops from small minority groups such as Gurkhas from Nepal and Sikhs. The division of the district was followed by a population transfer between the two nations, with Muslims leaving for Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs leaving for India. From the time of Nanak the Sikhs had significantly transformed. At the same time the town's demographics changed, with initially mainly Sikhs settling down in the area, later followed by black Africans, many from Nigeria. Sikhs have migrated worldwide, with a variety of occupations. Mountbatten decided to threaten Jinnah by drawing a line less favourable to Muslims and more favourable to Sikhs if he did not agree to partitioning Punjab and Bengal. In Sialkoti's view, this was done mainly to placate the Sikhs. Vaisakhi is one of the most important festivals of Sikhs, while other significant festivals commemorate the birth, lives of the Gurus and Sikh martyrs. This later created a rift between Hindus and Sikhs of Punjab. People eat together, and the kitchen is maintained and serviced by Sikhs. Sikhs must carry the five Ks 24 hours a day, even when swimming or in bed. The Punjab region has been the traditional homeland for the Sikhs. This caused the religious migration of Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab, mirroring a similar religious migration of Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab. Sikhs vow to wear the five Ks, which include a dagger, comb and bangle, and to eat only ritually killed meat, refrain from committing adultery or cutting their hair. 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. 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. The atrocities committed on the Sikhs in 1984 and on the Muslims recurrently because of communalism are an utter disgrace to our state and society. During the 1857 Indian mutiny, the Sikhs stayed loyal to the British. The kirpan is one of five sacred articles that baptized Sikhs must wear. Others took out their kirpans, the daggers carried by many Sikhs. Show More Sentences Around the world, Sikhs are commemorated in Commonwealth cemeteries. British people are highly indebted and obliged to Sikhs for a long time. Guru Nanak taught that rituals, religious ceremonies, or idol worship are of little use and Sikhs are discouraged from fasting or going on pilgrimages. Initiated male and female Sikhs must cover their hair with a turban. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sikhs began to emigrate to East Africa, the Far East, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Sikhs believe that being in the company of the Satsang or Sadh Sangat is one of the key ways to achieve liberation from the cycles of reincarnation. 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. Resistance to decadent Mughal rulers, Marathas, Afghans, Sikhs and, finally, the British brought freedom though not, it has to be said, instant democracy. Examples from Classical Literature The battery, about thirty sappers and half the 35th Sikhs, were returning to camp. On parade were the 5th, 6th and 10th Gurkha Battalions with the 14th Sikhs. The Sikhs who succeeded the Afghans were not so barbarically cruel, but they were hard and rough masters. The Bengalese and Sikhs thrust their own out of sight as they were planting for an uncertain harvest. Or was he to go to India, to get shot by Sikhs, or carried off by a jungle fever? At Agra there were the 3d Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse, and a battery of artillery. What India lost that hour by the Bengalese the Sikhs won back. The buffs, supported by the 35th Sikhs, were to take the village. We were shut up in Bhurtee, the regiment of us with half a battery of artillery, a company of Sikhs, and a lot of civilians and women-folk. He baptised them as Sikhs, thus giving a lesson of casteless society and national integration. Some village Sikhs wear a tahband or waistcloth instead of the kach. Bachchan senior has been allegedly charged with instigating violence against the Sikhs, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed. But the Sikhs maintained a remorseful silence and declined it. He said that the competition is exclusively meant for Sabat Surat Sikhs and believed it would be a real morale-boost for Sikh youths. The three Sikhs got penal servitude for life, and I was condemned to death, though my sentence was afterwards commuted into the same as the others. Stalky tugged his moustache, and fell to thinking of his Sikhs. Find more words! 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