ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ @Kharagket_ Twitter profile

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

8 months

If you come yourself in village Kangar, we can meet each other. Do not bring in your mind the danger of coming there. Because the Brar (Jatt) community acts according to my orders. [59] So what, if you have killed my four sons? The hooded cobra (the Guru Khalsa) still sits

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

9 months

October 17, 1762: A total solar eclipse passed over northern India on Diwali. Ganda Singh, citing various sources, claims it lasted 18 gharis— over seven hours. Modern calculations place it between one and four in the afternoon. It was ‘in the grey light of a sun in total

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@Kharagket_

9 months

Video of Giani Pinderpal Singh warrmly embracing Pakistani Muslim preacher Adnan Rashid at a mosque in Doha, Qatar. Adnan Rashid is known for his derogatory and deceitful rhetoric against Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib and his defence of Aurangzeb. Giani Pinderpal Singh has been

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@Kharagket_

3 months

General Shabeg Singh dressed in classic Akali garb, 1984.

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@Kharagket_

3 months

General Shabeg Singh showing a photograph of himself in Indian Army Uniform while his ailing wife is lying next to him, c. May 1984.

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@Kharagket_

8 months

Nihangs under Akali Sadhu Singh charging at the breach in the Multan fort during the Siege Battle of Multan in 1818, by Devender Singh, 1960s. One of the most fiercely contested victories of the Sikhs over the Afghans- the Sikhs took the strongest Saddozai fort in the Bari Doab

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@Kharagket_

8 months

Jaspat Rai Khatri was a Hindu Jagirdar of Eminabad in Gujranwala under the Mughal Subedar of Lahore. He would routinely pillage the lands of poor farmers, extract taxes by force and hurl insults to Sikh Gurus. The Dal Khalsa would recruit the dissenting peasants and they would

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@Kharagket_

10 months

ਜਬੈ ਬਾਣ ਲਾਗ੍ਯਿੋ ॥ ਤਬੈ ਰੋਸ ਜਾਗ੍ਯਿੋ ॥ When the arrow hit my body, it awakened martial rancour. ਕਰੰ ਲੈ ਕਮਾਣੰ ॥ ਹਨੰ ਬਾਣ ਤਾਣੰ ॥੩੧॥ I took the bow in my hand and shot the arrow back. - Sri Bachitarnatak, Guru Gobind Singh.

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@Kharagket_

7 months

On the 26th of January, 1986 the Damdami Taksal, AISSF, Akali Dal (United) and incorporated Sikh guerrilla groups took over the Darbar Sahib complex amid a crowd of tens of thousands clad in saffron (colour of sacrifice), declaring the renewal of the armed struggle for Sikh

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@Kharagket_

9 months

An elderly Master Tara Singh fulfilling the tankhah penance imposed on him by the Panj Pyaras of the Akal Takht for breaking his solemn oath to fulfil a fast unto death to pressure the Congress government to divide Punjab on a linguistic basis, November 1961.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

11 months

Mark Juergensmeyer, an American sociologist, is regarded as one of the leading religious violence and terrorism experts of the world. He began his career studying religious violence in South Asia and wrote extensively of the Khalistan Insurgency in Punjab (1978-1995). He recounts

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

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Prominent Sikh aristocrats of the Victorian era including Bhai Arjan Singh of Bagrian, Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh, Umrao Singh Shergill Majithia, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha and Sardar Sir Sunder Singh Majithia.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

8 months

Guru Gobind Singh sat at Kangar in Bathinda- an area inhabited by the Brar tribe- but somehow referenced some Marhatta territory? Unreal mind games being played by this ignorant bald clown. The Guru also wrote about how he annihilated the idol worshipper hill rajas. Keep wailing.

Puneet Sahani

@puneet_sahani

8 months

Complete distortion of Zafarnamah! It was #Aurangzeb who invited #GuruGobindSingh to visit him, saying province of Berar (recently overrun by #ShivajiMaharaj ’s sons) was back in his control. Jattwadis with inferiority complex reversed direction of letter & made Brar out of Berar.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

8 months

Indira Gandhi did not crush anything. If anything the attack on Amritsar in June 1984 (“Bluestar”) resulted in a 10+ year armed insurgency where Sikh youth throughout North India formed guerrilla bands and began killing Congress, BJP, Shiv Sena and Communist politicians and

Kali Yuga Surfer

@kaliyuga_surfer

8 months

To all the pajeets ree-ing about Khalistan. Yes, Indira Gandhi was the one who crushed the insurgency. Before Operation Bluestar, the entire state was a lawless frontier and Bindrenwale could have declared Khalistan anytime. 1/n.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

10 months

Use your own paintings. Stop co-opting Sikh history for your narratives.

Itihasika

@itihasika

10 months

Primary sources & verifiable documentation proves Hindus have suffered like Jews over centuries of theological & ethnic hatred including mass murder, beheading babies, burning or starving families etc. Hindu trans generational trauma response was self hate, pacifism & turning

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

8 months

As a response to the Indian army attack on Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar in June 1984, The Sikh Foundation led by Dr Narinder Singh Kapany (“Father of Fiber Optics”) along with other Sikh organisations in the United States, released a full-page newspaper advertisement that was

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

4 months

Born as Nathu Ram in a Hindu Khatri family, Prof. Sahib Singh was inspired as a young boy by the Singh Sabha movement into adopting the Khalsa faith and rechristened as Sahib Singh. He is most well known for his groundbreaking findings into Gurbani grammar and the subsequent

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

11 months

The greatest irony is that the contemporary music industry in Punjab was a pet project funded by the Indian National Congress CM Beant Singh and DGP KPS Gill to drive youth away from militancy without having to recruit them for government jobs. 30 years later, the majority

THE SKIN DOCTOR

@theskindoctor13

11 months

Music can be a powerful propaganda tool, especially to influence youth. In the 90s and early 2000, Punjabi music was dominated by the singers based in Punjab, and songs mostly showcased folk, virsa (heritage), des (nation/region), mitti, maa-boli (mother tongue), pind, social

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8 months

“Even to this day every Sikh, on passing through Sirhind, carries away a brick, which he throws into the Sutlej in the hope that in time the detested city will thus be utterly removed from the face of the earth.” - Census of India, 1911, Volume XIV, Punjab, Part I, Report by

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The funeral of Balwinder Singh Jattana of the BK, September 1991.

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@Kharagket_

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Maharaja Yadvinder Singh of Patiala laying the foundation stone for the modern building of Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib. 1 February 1945.

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@Kharagket_

7 months

Sandeep Kaur, the widow of Babbar Khalsa Area Commander Dharam Singh Kastiwal wrote in her memoirs how in 1990, the Akhand Kirtani Jatha high command of the Babbar Khalsa directed her and her husband’s guerilla group to retake pahul initiation with strict emphasis on Bibeki diet.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

8 months

His Highness Maharaja Sir Yadvinder Singh of Patiala addresses and greets Sikh troops and officers of the Bengal Lancers of the United States 5th Army during the Gothic Line offensive in Italy, 14 October 1944. British Indian troops perform a dance in the Maharaja’s honour.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

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Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala rallying the Sikh army for a last stand at the Battle of Sobraon, 10 February 1846.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

2 months

Footage of the Indian President Giani Zail Singh and poet Amrita Pritam justifying the army attack on Darbar Sahib and blaming the SGPC for the destruction, from propaganda tapes commissioned by Indira Gandhi’s government & sent out to Sikh diaspora communities across the globe.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

6 months

An oil portrait of Sarkar Khalsaji Maharaja Sher Singh.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

5 months

Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa inspecting a battalion of trained infantry (Fauj-i-Ain), 19th century fresco from the Bhai Balanand Udasin Akhara, Amritsar.

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@Kharagket_

9 months

We have always been like this. On the occasion of Vaisakhi in 1721, the faction which considered Banda Singh Bahadur the 11th Sikh Guru was challenged to a wrestling match by the orthodox Tat Khalsa and lost. They were then fed pork meat against their will, to break their code

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@AgentSaffron

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Your behavior in your holiest temple.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

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Ranaut repeats a misled view held by many Indians that the June 1984 attack on Amritsar and subsequent nationwide pogroms in November utterly crushed all Sikh separatist resistance. Ignoring the threatening genocidal tone of her tweet, she should be inclined to remember that the

Kangana Ranaut

@KanganaTeam

11 months

You sure ? Don’t you think 1984 anti Sikh riots were the results of Khalistani movement in Punjab, and because of handful of Khalistanis millions of innocent Sikh people suffered! For that matter whenever terrorists trigger any riots in any corner of the world it’s the innocent

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

9 months

According to the World Sikh News edition of 2 March 1990, the Khalistan Commando Force under chief Wassan Singh Zaffarwal, Lt. Gen. Pargat Singh Samra, Lt. Gen. Satnam Singh, Lt. Gen. Balwinder Singh Shahpur, Lt. Gen. Roop Singh Punia, M. Gen. Sukhchain Singh and Bhai Mahinder

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

5 months

This painting of Maharaja Ranjit Singh held in the Louvre Museum was commissioned by General Jean-Baptiste Ventura in 1838 and presented to King Louis-Phillipe of France. The painter, who based this on Punjabi miniatures presented by Ventura, included a French Tricolour carried

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An officer of the Sikh Khalsa Army with his wife, Lahore, c.1830.

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

8 months

According to Sri Gurpratap Suraj Granth, in one battle the Sikh army of Guru Gobind Singh defeated the Mughal forces and took their womenfolk prisoner. The Sikhs asked Guru Gobind Singh whether they should convert and ravish the honour of the Muslim women to obtain revenge for

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11 months

Following the anti-Sikh pogroms of November 1984, the KCF decided to avenge the massacres by establishing bases and modules inside Delhi to eliminate Indian National Congress politicians Arjun Dass and Lalit Maken, who survivors had recounted leading mobs which burned Sikh houses

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@Kharagket_

5 months

They cried out ‘Allah-u-Akbar’ (Allah is the Greatest) and the Singh shouted ‘Sat-Kartar’ (Truth Eternal is the Creator), O friends. O Qadir Yar, now is the time to pay up [with life’s breath] since there is no moment left to borrow, O friends. The elephant and the Singh, both

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@Kharagket_

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Photographs of the 21st February, 1921 funeral of the 140 Sikh martyrs killed by Mahant Narain Das in cold blood at Sri Nankana Sahib. According to the Tribune of Lahore, many Sikh women who had lost their sons and grandsons calmly sat and recited words from the Ardas prayer.

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@Kharagket_

8 months

Dilgeer’s hypothesis is based on the fact that no source contains the exact name of the Brahmin who betrayed the Guru’s mother and younger Sahibzade. The popular colloquial “Gangu Brahmin” is sourced from the Saheri Kheri Brahmana village’s oral history. However no source denies

OZ ☼ (Khalistan-Watch)

@Bo4orZ

8 months

Gangu Brahmin - The fake character of SIKH HISTORY. This character was created: 1. To divide Hindu-Sikhs. 2. To target glorious Hindu history by raising hate against them. 3. To takeover Punjab History by Akali Sikhs. ਹਿੰਦੂਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਦਾ ਦੁਸ਼ਮਣ ਸਾਬਿਤ ਕਰਨ ਖਾਤਰ ਘੜਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ।

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ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

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8 months

During the seven month long siege of Sri Anandpur, the Pahari Hindu chiefs and Auragzeb offered peace terms by swearing on the cow, devtas and the Quran for safe passage if the Guru and the Sikhs evacuated the fort. Sri Gur Panth Parkash narrates how Guru Gobind Singh dealt with

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Three pillars of Sikh Imperial Society: The Sikh Agriculturalist. The Sikh Bhai/Granthi. The Sikh Sipahi (soldier).

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@Kharagket_

10 months

“I say this with the greatest concern that even in this place (London) our Hindustanis do not stay within their limits and never forget to display their crude sordidness. This is especially shocking to those Punjabi Sikhs who against grave odds managed to salvage the honour of

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@Kharagket_

9 months

19 Maghar corresponds to the Shahidi Divas of Akali Gurbaksh Singh Shahid. He along with 29 warriors including Nihal Singh, Basant Singh, Man Singh vowed to defend Sri Darbar Sahib on this day in 1764 facing a contingent of Pathan and Baloch troops under Ahmad Shah Abdali in

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@Kharagket_

11 months

Rashpal Singh Chhandran was commander of the splinter BTFK Sangha faction who succeeded to command after the original commander, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha’s death. He ruled his territory of the rural area near Ludhiana from 1986 to 1992 and protected local Hindu shopkeepers,

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@Kharagket_

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ਜੂਝਬੋ ਜੂਝ ਕੈ ਪ੍ਰਾਨ ਤਜੈ ਜੁਝਾਇਬੋ ਛਤ੍ਰਨ ਕੋ ਬਨ ਆਯੋ ॥ To wage war, to fight and sacrifice his life is the only dharam of the kshatriya. - Sri Krishnavatar, Sri Dasam Granth.

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“Thereafter the Guru enquired from the messenger Sikh: Did no body else intervene and appeal for mercy? The messenger replied in this manner to this query of the Guru, That the Pathan Nawab of Malerkotla had appealed for mercy. Then the Guru uttered these prophetic words from

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@Kharagket_

9 months

Newspaper headline from 1989: Three districts of Punjab under complete militant control. Big landowners join rural Hindus in an exodus from the countryside. Tarn Taran- Amritsar, Firozpur and Gurdaspur form the three districts where militant power has fully overpowered that of

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@Kharagket_

9 months

ਦੋਹਰਾ ॥ ਆਸਾ ਨਾ ਕਰ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਨਾ ਨਾ ਪਰਸੇ ਪਗ ਜਾਇ ॥ Do not put faith in Brahmins and do not touch their feet [in respect]. ਆਪ ਤ੍ਯਾਗਿ ਦੂਜੈ ਲਗੇ ਕੂੰਭਿ ਨਰਕ ਮਹਿ ਪਾਇ ॥੧॥ Forsaking your True Self [Atma] and praying to another [Brahmins] you shall go to the worst hell. - Vaar Sri Bhagat

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9 months

The Khalsa Biradari Society, made up of zealous Mazbi, Ramdasia Sikhs and other lower caste converts from Islam, stormed the Akal Takht on the 12th of October, 1920, in protest of the discrimination of the Pujari and Nihang custodians. The group took over the Akal Takht causing

Ashok Singh

@AshokSGarcha

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@Kharagket_ Is this true ? If yes, when was the tradition stopped ?

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Amritsar was a Muslim majority city before Partition. These are rural Muslim labourers who dealt forage, not Jatt Sikhs. Conventionally accepted differentiators of Sikhs from all others were long hair, facial hair and an uncompromising abstention from tobacco.

जाट समाज

@JAT_SAMAAJ

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1907 में जट्ट सिख किसान अपनी फसल के साथ अमृतसर (ब्रिटिश पंजाब) मंडी में इकट्ठा बैठकर हुक्का पीते हुए। कुछ कल्पित किस्सों ने हमारे जीवन को आकार दिया है। और हम अपने वजूद से अलग दुनियादारी को वैसे ही देखने लगे। #जाट_समाज

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"To The Very Great, Very Splendid and Very Powerful Maharadjah Rendjit Sing Bahador, King (padichah) of the Pendjab, Conqueror of Cachmire (Kashmir), of Moultan,of Mangara,of Attok, of Pichawer (Peshawar) -Warlike, Invincible and Our Very Special and Perfect Friend, Greetings!"

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@Kharagket_

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Shaheed Rattan Singh Rakkar, a feared member of the Babbar Akali Doaba group, died on this day in 1932 fighting British colonial forces in a gunfight. An educated poor Jatt, he became a soldier in the British army resigning after the Jallianwala Bagh and Akali movement incidents.

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@Kharagket_

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“Rogan Te Ar Sogan Te” shabad rendition in Raag Bhairavi performed by Ragi Uttam Singh Hakim, recorded at Lahore in 1904 by The Gramophone Company. At 01:33 Ragi Uttam Singh shouts perhaps the earliest recorded form of the Sikh jaikara.

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@Kharagket_

8 months

One wonders what the reaction of the thousands of Sikh soldiers deployed at India’s borders - with a generational history of sacrifices and records to protect India - would be, once this video reaches them? What is this repulsive troll couple trying to really achieve here?

Harman Singh Kapoor

@kingkapoor72

8 months

What’s the contribution of Jatts for India Please watch video below and also comment and share @JaipurDialogues @IntConfused @Ginger1Garlic1 @deshrajsingh56 @trollove1 @SandeepNeel @e3ef8e4d6fc0489

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ਕਰਹੁ ਹੁਕਮ ਅਪਨਾ ਸਭੈ ਦੁਸਟ ਘਾਊਂ ॥ ਤੁਰਕ ਹਿੰਦ ਕਾ ਸਕਲ ਝਗਰਾ ਮਿਟਾਊਂ ॥ Sanction me [Guru Gobind Singh Ji] to destroy all the evil [dusht] - and end this frequent conflict between the Hindus and Muslims. ਅਗਮ ਸੂਰਬੀਰੇ ਉਠਹਿ ਸਿੰਘ ਜੋਧਾ ॥ ਪਕੜ ਤੁਰਕ ਗਨ ਕਉ ਕਰੈ ਵੈ ਨਿਰੋਧਾ ॥ Ample brave Singh

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Jathedar Shingara Singh was born in the year 1900 in a village in the vicinity of Sri Amritsar. On the 13th April of 1919, aged 19, he was present in the Jallianwala Bagh. He survived the mass murder ordered by General Dyer with a bullet that struck his arm.

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According to his memoirs, while transporting consignments of arms and ammunition from Pakistan to India through the Great Rann of Kutch in Nagarparkar, Sindh for KLF guerrillas in 1990, Daljit Singh Bittu, of the AISSF (Bittu) faction, met local Hindu Rajputs who he observed to

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Remembering the 178th anniversary of the Battle of Sobraon and the brave last stand of Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala and his vanguard. “In the midst of these treacheries, a Sikh warrior, Sham Singh Attariwala, symbol of the unflinching will and valiant spirit of the Khalsa, vowed

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A Mughal letter written on behalf of Aurangzeb by his secretary Inayatullah Khan for Wazir Khan, Faujdar of Sirhind, contains firsthand information regarding the Battle of Chamkaur and the execution of Guru Gobind Singh’s Sahibzade: “His (Wazir Khan’s) letter has been received,

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The last of Sanatan Sikhs: Bedi Kartar Singh was the nephew of Sir Baba Khem Singh Bedi, chief of the Amritsar Sri Guru Singh Sabha and descendant of Sri Guru Nanak. When the Pujaris fled the Akal Takhat following the Khalsa Biradari Society’s takeover and the establishment of

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@Kharagket_

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The Khalsa Biradari Society, made up of zealous Mazbi, Ramdasia Sikhs and other lower caste converts from Islam, stormed the Akal Takht on the 12th of October, 1920, in protest of the discrimination of the Pujari and Nihang custodians. The group took over the Akal Takht causing

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The haveli of Diwan Chandu Lal Khatri, responsible for convincing Jahangir to execute Guru Arjan Dev, was demolished in 1799 by Sikh warriors upon Ranjit Singh’s takeover of Lahore. A new haveli was built on the same site in 1825 which is today known as “Lal haveli.” The

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Origin of the Arab king Mohammad and his cult as per the Sri Akalpurkhbach portion Sri Bachittarnatak authored by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. Katha exegesis by Srimaan Sant Giani Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale: ਮਹਾਦੀਨ ਤਬ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਉਪਰਾਜਾ ॥ ਤਦ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਨੇ ਹਜ਼ਰਤ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ('ਮਹਾਦੀਨ')

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@Kharagket_

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ਧਨੁ ਧੰਨੁ ਪਿਤਾ ਧਨੁ ਧੰਨੁ ਕੁਲੁ ਧਨੁ ਧਨੁ ਸੁ ਜਨਨੀ ਜਿਨਿ ਗੁਰੂ ਜਣਿਆ ਮਾਇ ॥ ਹੇ ਮਾਂ! ਉਹ ਪਿਉ ਭਾਗਾਂ ਵਾਲਾ ਹੈ, ਉਹ ਕੁਲ ਭਾਗਾਂ ਵਾਲੀ ਹੈ ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੂ ਜਣਿਆ ਹੈ। O Mother hail, hail to the father hail, hail to the family hail, hail, to the good progenitress, who gave birth to the Guru. ਧਨੁ ਧੰਨੁ

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@Kharagket_

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Sardar Sir AttarSingh, Raiss (Jagirdar) of Bhadaur estate (1833-1896) was a Sikh nobleman and polymath renowned for his literary skills. One of the first English-literate Sikhs, he was also proficient in Punjabi, Farsi, Sanskrit and Urdu.

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@Kharagket_

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Sikh Soldiers Visit Greek Church Leaders at Mount Athos. Archbishop Damaskinos inspecting Sikh troops in Salonika, 1 March 1945.

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@Kharagket_

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1/11/1984: "INDIA, DELHI: Hindu backlash after the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi, leading to fearful reprisals against the Sikh community.” Via @AP_Archive .

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At the June 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, Manmohan Singh defended state sanctioned extrajudicial murders occurring in Punjab: “There are no ethnic peoples in India. My government recognises no such category. India has only backward sections.”

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@Kharagket_

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“For us, all non-Sikhs, Hindus, Muhammadans, etc., are equally misguided in their faiths, they are riding boats that are doomed to lead astray from the path leading to God. Ours is a ship, Jahaz of the Vahiguroo's -Almighty's name and he who sitteth in it is sure to cross [the]

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@Kharagket_

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With all respect to Shackle, his work was published in 2005 and is outdated. Louis Fenech analyses the same verse, acknowledges the divergence in opinion of the various scholars and concludes that the Guru did indeed pen these verses and they were *not* a reply to Aurangzeb.

Puneet Sahani

@puneet_sahani

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You two-bit Jattwadi is going to school me?! Couplets 58-61 of #Zafarnama , underlined in red, are references to past offers by Aurangzeb. By your McSikh interpretation of 59 —couplet 61 becomes nonsense! Thus MacAullife omitted it. Translation here by GREAT philologist Shackle.

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An elaborate regimental drum of the Fauj-i-Khas, the European-trained regular infantry of the Sikh empire's army, c.1830.

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"At the autumn festival of the Dusehra a he-goat is slaughtered in the courtyard below the Akal bunga, and special honours are paid to the swords of the gurus" - Sundar Singh Ramgarhia, Guide to the Darbar Sahib, published 1903.

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“A Sikh orderly”, c.1830.

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@Kharagket_

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Sahni’s theory gets all the more laughable when one reads the original text, which clearly says “Kaum-e-Birar.” In what universe does Kaum translate to a province, only a garbage-eater like Sahni can tell us. Before standardisation of spelling under British rule, names used to

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@Kharagket_

8 months

Guru Gobind Singh sat at Kangar in Bathinda- an area inhabited by the Brar tribe- but somehow referenced some Marhatta territory? Unreal mind games being played by this ignorant bald clown. The Guru also wrote about how he annihilated the idol worshipper hill rajas. Keep wailing.

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KLF militants Manjinder Singh Issi and Daya Singh Lahoria posing with kidnapped Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu in Delhi, 11 October 1991. “Radu, then the charge d'affaires at the Romanian Embassy, was kidnapped by Sikh militants Oct. 9 shortly after he left his home in the

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@Kharagket_

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This is patently false. @PavSingh84 ’s well researched book contains a lot of hard found evidence that proves that the Indian National Congress government had preplanned the pogroms to coincide on the day of Guru Nanak’s nativity, which fell on the 8th of November, 1984. People

Daniel Bordman

@DanielBordmanOG

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@theJagmeetSingh It wasn’t pre meditated. The violence that broke out against Sikhs (which was wrong) was triggered when Indra Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh guards

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In the heyday of the Sikh nationalist movement (1986-1992), the Second Panthic Committee mandated all women in Punjab to dress in modest fashion in salwar kameez and kesri dupattas, which signified the colour of martyrdom in Khalsa tradition. Elaborate hairstyles and jeans were

Gagandeep Singh

@Gagan4344

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Five Singh Sahibs passed a resolution today at Takht Shri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, stating that: •The complete names of the groom and bride should be printed on the wedding cards with Singh and Kaur. •During Laawan, the girl should wear a complete suit, not a Lehnga. •No flower

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“The Sikhs at last, as triumphant victors with the English, stood on the spot where, 180 years before, their Guru, the father of Govind the Lion, met a martyr's death for refusing to abjure his faith. There was in existence among them a popular belief that they would, in

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@Kharagket_

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Sikh infantry under Sardar Sher Singh Attariwala repelling a British cavalry charge at the Battle of Ramnagar, 22 November 1848, painted by Henry Martens.

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@Kharagket_

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Trident staff which was carried into battle as a standard by the Akal Infantry of the State of Nabha during the reign of Maharaja Hira Singh Bahadur. It bears an English translation of Guru Gobind Singh’s verses from Sri Chandi Charitar Ukati Bilas: ਜਬ ਆਵ ਕੀ ਅਉਧ ਨਿਦਾਨ ਬਨੈ ਅਤਿ ਹੀ

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@Kharagket_

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The daily nitnem routine of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala consisted of chants of Sri Mool Mantra followed by Sri Japji Sahib in the morning and Sri Rehras Sahib in the evening. These were taught to him off by heart by Nirmala Sants, particularly Sant Attar Singh of

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@Kharagket_

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A Sikh dragoon of the Fauj-i-Ain under General Jean-François Allard, c.1830.

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@Kharagket_

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Panth Rattan Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha, beyond having an extensive knowledge of Sikh philosophy and history, took special interest in Western classical music, hiking, hunting crocodiles, elephants, hogs and partridges, gardening and playing tennis.

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@Kharagket_

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ਛੋਡਹਿ ਅੰਨੁ ਕਰਹਿ ਪਾਖੰਡ ॥ chhoddeh a(n)n kareh paakha(n)dd || ਜੋ ਲੋਕ ਅੰਨ ਛੱਡ ਦੇਂਦੇ ਹਨ ਤੇ (ਇਹ) ਪਖੰਡ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ, Those who abandon food (fast) and commit such acts of hypocrisy, ਨਾ ਸੋਹਾਗਨਿ ਨਾ ਓਹਿ ਰੰਡ ॥ naa sohaagan naa oh ra(n)dd || ਉਹ (ਉਹਨਾਂ ਕੁਚੱਜੀਆਂ ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀਆਂ ਵਾਂਗ ਹਨ ਜੋ) ਨਾਹ

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Punjabi folk singer Muhammad Sadiq being warned by KCF militants Sukhwinder Singh Gora and Ranbir Singh Rana, to self censor his explicitly suggestive songs before the commencement of a village akhara performance in Majha, Newspaper clipping from 27 April 1990.

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@Kharagket_

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ਸ਼ਾਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਰਦਾਰ ਨੇ ਤੇਗ ਫੜੀ, ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ ਕੇ ਸੀਸ ਪੈ ਜਾਇ ਜੜੀ ਹੈ। The valiant Sardar Sham Singh of Attari held his sabre and struck it against the neck of many an Englishman. ਮੂੰਡ ਕਾਟ ਕੇ ਜਾਟ ਨੇ ਝਾਟ ਕੀਓ, ਦਮਕੀ ਦਲਿ ਮੈਂ ਰਣਿ ਹੋਰੀ ਕਰੀ ਹੈ। The Jatt chopped and slashed their shaven heads, the

ਸ੍ਰੀਖੜਗਕੇਤੁ

@Kharagket_

6 months

Remembering the 178th anniversary of the Battle of Sobraon and the brave last stand of Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala and his vanguard. “In the midst of these treacheries, a Sikh warrior, Sham Singh Attariwala, symbol of the unflinching will and valiant spirit of the Khalsa, vowed

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@Kharagket_

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Portrait of Kunwar Rit Mohinder Singh of Bhadaur, a vassal and minister of the Maharaja of Patiala, c.1940.

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@Kharagket_

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c.1990.

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@Kharagket_

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh with General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa in the grounds of Rambagh. Amritsar or Lahore, Punjab, ca.1830-32. Toor Collection.

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@Kharagket_

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According to former superintendent of Tihar Jail Sunil Gupta, prisoners implicated in the assassination of Indira Gandhi including Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh received the “privileged” diet of milk and eggs as Kehar Singh stressed his food be prepared separately from the other

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@Kharagket_

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“The primary objective is independence and not whether someone reads the Rag Mala or not, if someone eats Jhatka or not, if there is a difference over whether the patka or the kes [long uncut hair] is the symbol. All of these things are an individual’s wish. We shall not let

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@Kharagket_

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Sikh arms and colours captured following the fall of Multan in 1849, “Crown and Company” by Arthur Edward Mainwaring, page 272. British forces capture two Sikh standards during hand-to-hand fighting in Mooltan (Multan), Plate from 'Mootan, during and after the Siege' by John

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@Kharagket_

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Diljit Singh Pannun, cousin of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, was an Indian diplomat. He served as Ambassador and High Commissioner to Ghana and Madagascar. In his 2007 book “Cannon Unto Canon”, he mentions his family’s close relationship with Congress politicians Partap Singh Kairon

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@Kharagket_

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Sikhs, c.1849.

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@Kharagket_

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"I hear it is their practice on one of their (Sikhs) religious festivities, the Bhundara (Langar) of Gooroo Nanuk, to stir up the common food with a knife having a hog's bone handle, as an expression of their contempt of Mahomedanism; and here at Hyderabad, even here, they have

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@Kharagket_

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ਦੋਹਰਾ। ਸ੍ਰੀ ਨਾਨਕ ਪੁਰੁਸੋ਼ਤਮੰ ਪਰਮ ਪਰਾਵਰ ਨਾਥ। ਯੁਗਲ ਚਰਨ ਮਮਬੰਦਨਾ ਧਰ ਪਰ ਧਰਿ ਕਰਿ ਮਾਥ।।੫।। Sri Guru Nanak is the Highest of the Greatest beings in the World; the Master of the most exalted. I bow again and again before Your two feet and pay obeisance by placing my forehead on the earth.

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@Kharagket_

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Raja Hira Singh of Nabha once ordered his court to seek a person who could recite all of the Guru Granth Sahib in one sitting. When Baba Narain Singh Dhillon of Sabaz Banera was sought, he accepted but challenged the Raja to also sit with him to attend until completion.

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@Kharagket_

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The Fateh Burj celebrates the Sikh victory over the Mughal army of Sirhind at the Battle of Chapparchiri fought on the 12th of May 1710.

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@Kharagket_

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According to Charitar 71 of Sri Dasam Granth Sahib, Guru Gobind Singh narrates how after defeating Raja Bhim Chand’s Pahari coalition army at Bhangani, the victorious Sikh army ventured towards the Hindu pilgrimage site of Kapal Mochan to celebrate while hunting wild animals on

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@Kharagket_

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Maharaja Sher Singh drying his hair following a bath, Kangra, c.1830.

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@Kharagket_

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The Battle of Kartarpur was fought on the 25th of April, 1635 between the Akal Sena of Sri Guru Hargobind and a Mughal force under the Subedar of Peshawar, Kale Khan, who sought revenge for his brother’s death in a previous battle and Painde Khan, a renegade mercenary. This Vaar

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@Kharagket_

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Devanagari literate propaganda accounts always fail horribly in deciphering Sikh texts written in Gurmukhi. The only source that mentions Masands Dhumma and Darbari of village Saheri Brahmana is Katha Guru Ji Ke Sootan Ki by Dhunna Singh Handuria, first published and edited by

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