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In the times of Gurus [1469 - 1708], The establishment of the Khalsa Panth [1699], Sikh Confederacies [1708 - 1769], Sikh struggle against Mughal empire [1708 - 1799], The Sikh Empire [1799 - 1839], The British and Sikhs [1849 - 1947], The Modern History of Sikhs [1947 - present]
 
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Historical Events in Sikh History/The British and Sikhs [1849 - 1947]
RIKABGANJ AGITATION (1913-20) marked the Sikh protest against the demolition by the British of one of the walls of the historical Rikabganj shrine in New Delhi. Gurdwara Rikabganj, sacred to the memory of Guru Tegh Bahadur, at present a. splendid ...
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Historical Events in Sikh History/The Modern History of Sikhs [1947 - present]
RADCLIFFE AWARD, under which the dividing line between the West (Pakistan) Punjab and the East (Indian) Punjab was drawn, is so called after the name of the Chairman of the Punjab Boundary Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, an eminent British jurist es...
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Historical Events in Sikh History/In the times of Gurus [1469 - 1708]
RAJPUTSIKH RELATIONS. During his preaching tours. Guru Nanak (14691539), founder of the Sikh faith, is believed to have visited Pushkar and Kulayat, two important Hindu pilgrimage centres in Rajputana (now Rajasthan), the land of the Rajputs. While u...
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Historical Events in Sikh History/Sikh Confederacies [1708 - 1769]
RAKHI SYSTEM, the arrangement whereby the Dal Khalsa during the middecades of the eighteenth century established their sway over territories not under their direct occupation. Rakhi, lit. `protection` or `vigilance,` referred to the cess levied by th...
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Historical Events in Sikh History/The Modern History of Sikhs [1947 - present]
REGIONAL FORMULA, one of the several schemes devised to solve the language problem in the Punjab without recasting the state on linguistic lines, was announced by the Indian government in March 1956 following a series of parleys between the Akali Dal...
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