Browsing Tag: War

Not only has the British army acknowledged (at last) and but even the British mainstream media has woken up to that historical fact. No longer are the Sikhs lost in generalised labels like “Indians” or “Asians”. They stand tall as “Sikhs”.

The Sikhs were the most visible of the soldiers deployed in every arena of the war. Sikhs wore their turbans in conflict, although images of the conflict show non-Sikh cavalrymen wearing turbans in apparent combat, for the Sikhs it was a strict adherence and a sign of the pride in their faith.

Maybe if these guys knew that we're not so different after all... that turbaned, bearded men went and fought for Australia, that turbaned, bearded men died in Australia fighting for the British forces, the Allies...

Over ten official 1984 Inquiry Commissions have done their work under pressure but were unable to identify more than a handful of low level guilty people, even though the government admits to the killing of over 2,700 Sikh men, women and children in Delhi alone. Many credible witnesses, of course, put the numbers much higher.

The Sikh appearance and presence was effective, in the opinion of the British, in intimidating the Chinese secret Societies and deterring criminal activities. The Sikhs were recruited by the British for police services, traffic duties, the riot squad and the mounted section.

The Chhota Ghallughara Martyrs­ Memorial was opened Monday at Kahnuwan Chhamb in Gurdaspur district. It’s been built in the memory of over 11,000 Sikhs killed by Mughal troops at Kahnuwan Chhamb in 1746.

Listen my friends and you shall hear, The story of a battle in the North West Frontier, On the twelfth of September, in ninety seven; Few men alive have any notion Of that famous day and year.

Saragarhi, in comparison is a greater feat of bravery considering the odds ……one Sikh to a thousand tribals. Unfortunately, human memory is short and today nothing is known about their descendants…….an outright disgrace. Tracing their descendants should not be difficult as 113 years is but a flash of time where history is concerned.

How little we know about the origins of the Sept. 11 attacks is laid out in the disclaimer on Page 146 of the official 9/11 presidential commission report. A box on that page states clearly that the conventional narrative of how those portentous events unfolded is based largely on the interrogation under torture of key witnesses who...

“If governments, international organizations or aid groups are able to use those forecasts, the forecasts of El Nino effectively, they might be able to either prepare populations on the ground or themselves prepare their own resources to be in a better situation when conflict breaks out.”

On Thursday 26th May 2011, a UK delegation of Sikhs met with a delegation of Sikhs from Holland, to visit the Mayor of Ieper Mr Luc Dehaene and discussed initiatives to commemorate the thousands of Sikhs who had laid down their lives for the freedom of Europe.

"Of 100,000 thousand Empire troops to be taken prisoner upon the surrender of Singapore, a handful of Sikhs, of the 5th/11th Sikh Regiment, have regained their freedom, the first of the many we have yet to liberate from Japan."

A documentary which pays tribute to nthe memory of the Sikh Soldiers who fought for Great Britain during the Great War.

Mr. Peter Chai, said that, “we are organizing the first Remembrance Day ceremony on the site this coming December” This Peace monument is dedicated to all including the Japanese Imperial forces who fought and laid down their lives for a cause.

When, in 1838, Britain and Afghanistan shared a common enemy in the ambitiously expansionist Russians, a strong Anglo-Afghan alliance appeared to be a distinct reality.

One’s own religion is supreme, but what about the other man’s faith؟

Everyone's worried, getting depressed and wondering, now that you can't trust the banks and bankers, who can you trust? 

A reflection by Lieut Colonel Pritam Singh Jauhal (Retd).

Dedicated to the Indian soldiers who fought on the Western Front during the First World War.