Sikh Village earlier known as Sikhul thota is a small suburb in Secunderabad, India. The name is attributed to some of the Nizam's Sikh troops being settled...
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Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating...
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text. Sikhs (singular Sikh: /sɪk/ SIK or /siːk/ SEEK; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, romanized: sikkh, IPA: [sɪkkʰ]) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a...
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Sikhism (/ˈsiːkɪzəm/ SEEK-iz-əm), also known as Sikhi (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ Sikkhī, [ˈsɪk.kʰiː] , from Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, romanized: Sikh, lit. 'disciple'), is...
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Gurdwara in the village of Wadali where Sri Guru Hargobind Ji was born in 1595, to celebrate the birth and many other such festivals. All Sikh festival include...
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Khalistan movement (redirect from Sikh nationalism)
Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno-religious sovereign state called Khalistan (lit...
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1703, both of them, joined by about one hundred Sikhs, went to Bassi Kalan; they put siege to the village and sent a message to Jabar Khan to return the...
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religious group. The majority of the nation's Sikhs live in the northern state of Punjab, which is the only Sikh-majority administrative division in the world...
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Guru Nanak founded the Sikh religion in the Punjab region of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent in the 15th century and opposed many traditional...
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Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021. The largest Sikh populations...
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Secunderabad Shahran Market Shah-Ali-Banda Shanker Mutt Shivam Road Sikh Village Sindhi Colony Sitaphalmandi Somajiguda Srinagar colony Sultan Bazar Tarnaka...
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Tukaramgate Secunderabad Cantonment Bowenpally Karkhana Marredpally Sikh Village Trimulgherry Vikrampuri Gachibowli Gowlidoddi Nanakramguda HITEC City...
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The Sikh Confederacy was a confederation of twelve sovereign Sikh states (each known as a Misl, derived from the Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal'; sometimes...
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Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or...
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Sikh are living mainly in over two hundred villages in Firozpur District and Fazilka district, sixty villages in Kapurthala District, fifty villages in...
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Tadbund Veeranjaneya Swamy temple is an old Hindu temple located in Sikh Village in Secunderabad. It is very popular with the devotees of Lord Hanuman...
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refusal to convert and were executed. In early Sikh accounts, they were simply beheaded; in popular Sikh tradition, they are held to have been "bricked"...
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1947 Rawalpindi massacres (category Massacres of Sikhs)
the village of Choa Khalsa, where around 150 Sikhs—and a smaller number of Hindus—were killed, and in the Sikh village of Dhamali. In Bewal village, a...
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Sikhism in Pakistan has an extensive heritage and history, although Sikhs form a small community in Pakistan today. Most Sikhs live in the province of...
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Vadda Ghalughara (redirect from The Second Sikh Holocaust (1762))
kəl˨luːkäː˨ɾäː]; alternatively spelt as Wadda Ghalughara) was the mass murder of Sikhs by the Afghan forces of the Durrani Empire during the years of Afghan influence...
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Tamas (film) (category Fiction about Sikhism)
Jasbir's (Uttara Baokar) house in a Sikh village. They travel on foot all night and the next morning reach a village and knock a door seeking shelter. The...
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In Sikhism, some Sikhs particularly of the Nihang community use edible cannabis in a religious context. They make use of cannabis by ingestion. It is...
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Sikh art, also known as the Sikh School, is the artwork created by or associated with Sikhs and Sikhism. Sikh artwork exists in many forms, such as miniature...
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Mazhabi Sikh (also known as Mazbhabi, Mazbhi, Majhabhi or Majabhi) is a community from Northern India, especially Punjab region, who follow Sikhism. Mazhabi...
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Sikh sects, denominations, traditions, movements, sub-traditions, also known as sampardai (Gurmukhi: ਸੰਪਰਦਾ; saparadā) in the Punjabi language, are sub-traditions...
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Sikh (/ˈsiːk/ or /ˈsɪk/; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, sikkh IPA: [ˈsɪkkʰ]) is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit...
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Sikhs in Argentina are a religious minority in Argentina and there are estimated to be around 300 Sikhs living in the country. Sikhs in Argentina largely...
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Guru Angad (category Sikh gurus)
əŋgəd̯ᵊ]) was the second of the ten Sikh gurus of Sikhism. After meeting Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with Nanak...
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Sikhs in Brazil are a religious minority and there are estimated to be around 300 Sikhs living in the country. Brazilian Sikhs started with the arrival...
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The first Anglo-Sikh war was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 around the Ferozepur district of Punjab...
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