#Sikh history

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Woodcut depicting twelve heroes of the Sikhs. Front row: Sher Singh, Ranjit Singh (blind left eye clearly shown), Dilip Singh, Maharani Jind Kaur(wife of Ranjit Singh). Second row: Dhian Singh, Gulab Singh, Sher Singh Atarivala, Chatar Singh Atarivala. Third row: Dina Nath, Moolraj Governor of Multan, Dost Mohammed (Ruler of Kabul), Phoola Singh of Amritsar. ca.1870 Currently held in the Victoria & Albert Museum

[zoyazoya111114]

#Who_got_God_

22 June God Kabir Prakat Diwas

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The story of the Chaar Sahibzaade makes me bawl my eyes out every time I think of them.

[lightdancer1]

It is not a compliment to note that book reminded me of some of the more shamefully jingoistic histories I've had the displeasure to read:

In particular where the book's nationalism stretched credulity way too far for any halfway literate person to more than halfway accept is that its first four chapters loudly and proudly note that Sikhs were and are morally superior to a caste-ridden backwards India of fanatical Muslims and Hindus who gleefully slaughter, rape, pillage, and burn Sikhs with a whim. Then after the conquest and absorption of the Sikhs into the Raj, the Sepoys are dirty treacherous sneaks who work with the British and the Sikhs who endorse the Raj and made up a disproportionate portion of its armies are all honorable people doing what's right for their nation and their culture.

Sikhs are proudly neither Hindu nor Muslim and had every expectation of keeping all their land and their sacred sites together, but anyone who notes that this might possibly smack of separatism is an anti-Sikh bigot where the Sikhs in turn very much developing precisely what they were feared to.....because the very fear spurred brutality that led to it is presented as straightforwardly honest. The Sikhs having an army and a willingness to use it to wage holy wars and build a great empire is sterling progress against their backwards barbarian neighbors, anyone who shoots back at the natural-born morally superior ruling caste is a filthy dog that deserves to die in the gutter. And that's this book's take on the various wars the Sikh fought up to the Anglo-Sikh Wars and also after them.

This is, to put it at its most blunt, about as much of a pretense of shame or honesty as that one book on the Forest Brothers by the Estonians who noted outright that the Nazis intended to exterminate Estonians and held as a matter of pride that even so the Estonian Forest Brothers were all in the Waffen-SS and where it did mention the Jews they were filthy traitors who deserved the massacre.

Or any right-wing US book on any of the bad things the USA's done. These vices are very much not limited to one people or one culture, unfortunately.

[sun-s-soul]

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Happens here too. The US.

And I tried to address a lot of this stuff and some of the things said in my cab driver novel.

The problem it's "hard to connect" to by an industry predominantly filled with people who've never experienced that and don't understand the impact to people, character, and how much that changes personal narrative and thus back into a fictive one from that perspective.

Your entire thought process on life and risks and everything are different.

There's an expectation for certain Asian communities to fall into the model minority trap.

Also be: submissive, meek, compliant.

When I first pursued acting I saw this stereotype enforced and expected almost unknowingly by people.

Same in fiction.

It's changing now, but...it's an uphill battle.

Take for example the history of Sikhs in warfare. Used as cannon fodder by the British, well respected warriors, served in armies around the world, even WWI and WWII for America as well, not just the British. But you don't hear about that. It's something that's talked about in Asiatic circles.

With what Bruce Lee did for the Chinese community. He smashed through stereotypes and showed badassery. Chinese martial arts. A Chinese ass kicking hero. But there were obstacles.

And it's what motivated me to write a book based off things I saw and experienced and also understand - trying to address stuff I don't think people are aware of especially in fiction. And, make a narrative that actually reads in that way - the pacing, considerations, and more.

We're told to always have actiony/ACTIVE characters.

But what we forget is a lot of poc's don't have that activeness/agency in their own lives due to certain systems, expectations, and things like this. And, other concerns. So what then does that narrative actually look like? And, what does that fight and reconciliation with one's self to get that agency look like as well? I worked hard to answer that and more in The Cab Driver.

I def need to thank WaylandSmith1 and ZacTopping for reading, liking, blurbbing, and vetting the accuracy of certain law enforcement, gang, and other aspects of the novel too.

But, yeah. It's been on my mind.

[onlinesikhstore]

Rare Antique Brass Sikh Guru Nanak Sat Kartar Nanakshahi Good Luck Gift Token T1

Rare Antique Brass Sikh Guru Nanak Sat Kartar Nanakshahi Good Luck Gift Token T1

Bala Mardana Baba Nanak

Token Coin as shown in the photos.

Type: Hindu Token

Period: Not Known - used item

Country/Region of Manufacture: India

[sikhhistoryinfo05]

Guru Harkrishan Sahib ji’s biography and life lessons

Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji, the eighth Guru of Sikhism, holds a unique place in Sikh history as the youngest Guru to assume Guruship. Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji’s life was brief yet impactful. Guru Harkrishan Sahib ji Born on July 7, 1656, in Kiratpur Sahib, Punjab to the house of Guru Har Rai Sahib ji and Mata Krishan Kaur ji.

[cid5]

Two Sikh members of the Free India Legion with a member of the Luftwaffe.

[walzerjahrhundert]

A Sikh woman before her wedding, 1890

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*#आओ_जानें_सनातन_को*

*Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj

[women-throughout-history]

Maharani Jind Kaur

Maharani Jind Kaur, also known as Rani Jindan, was a significant figure in Sikh history, serving as the last queen of the Sikh Empire from 1843 to 1846. Born in 1817 in Gujranwala, she became the youngest wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire. After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, Jind Kaur took on the role of regent for her son, Maharaja Duleep Singh. Jind Kaur's reign as regent was marked by political turmoil and conflict with the British East India Company. In 1845, during the First Anglo-Sikh War, she dispatched the Sikh Army to confront the British, leading to the annexation of the entire Punjab in 1849. After her son's dethronement, she faced imprisonment and exile by the British. Despite challenges, Jind Kaur escaped captivity in 1849, disguising herself as a slave girl and finding refuge in Nepal. Her efforts to resist British dominance continued through correspondence with rebels in Punjab and Jammu-Kashmir. She later reunited with her son in Calcutta in 1861, influencing him to return to Sikhism. Jind Kaur's exile took a toll on her health, and she passed away in her sleep on August 1, 1863, in Kensington, England. Denied the opportunity to be cremated in Punjab, her ashes were eventually brought back to India in 1924 and reburied in the Samadhi of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore. Despite her challenging life and exile, Maharani Jind Kaur's legacy endures as a symbol of resilience and resistance against colonial rule. In 2009, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Kensal Green Dissenters Chapel, honouring her contributions to Sikh history.

[lightdancer1]

Next book wrapped up:

This one covers, as the title says, the history of the Sikhs as an ethnoreligion founded by Guru Nanak. The Sikhs, like the original Buddhists, were formed as a backlash against the caste system and religious boorishness on the part of Muslims in the Mughal era and also of Hindus. In India, which makes such a great big deal about its tolerance of diversity, as elsewhere the tolerance is predominantly rhetorical and the moment it has to become real things become very different. Too, the reality of founding a religion is one thing, as religions gain power yesterday's egalitarians are today's absolutists with a feudal nobility and an autocratic monarchy.

The twin poles here drove the history of the Khalsa from its beginning through the wars with Mughals, the Durranis, the British, and the modern Republic of India. This is a book written by a Sikh and as such it represents a distinctly nationalistic flavor of book that doesn't even pretend to be otherwise. As a deliberately Sikh nationalist work both Hindu and Muslim India come in for multiple rhetorical beatings. As a nationalist work if the nation triumphs it is because of the excellence of leaders and institutions, if it failed it is because of treachery and treason from the vilest people for the worst ends.

As such this work is informative but serves as a good lesson in the limits of any nationalist tradition from any part of the world in trying to do a blunt version of its own history. The United States is far from the only culture that neatly skates past all the unpleasant sides and tries to pretty up some of the most unpleasant aspects by neatly circumventing harsher questions.

7/10.

[sun-s-soul]

[handweavers]

inner kl or kampung kl?

keluarga saya berasal dari negeri sembilan tapi kami tinggal di kampung kl dan inner kl so saya tahu kedua-dua. lebih familiar dengan pj/subang jaya/inner kl & sedikit seri kembangan than elsewhere di selangor though