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The Modern History of Sikhs [1947 - present]
ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION,
Tags: akali, shiromani, sikh, singh, sikhs, punjab, resolution, government, india, state, economic, states
ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION, a frequently invoked document of modern Sikhism pronouncing its religious rule as well as its political goal. After having enjoyed power under chief ministers, Gurnam Singh and Parkash Singh Badal in the Punjab, newly...
NEHRU COMMITTEE REPORT AND THE SIKHS
Tags: congress, report, sikhs, sikh, committee, india, nehru, conference, punjab, 1928, meeting, singh
NEHRU COMMITTEE REPORT AND THE SIKHS. Constitutional reforms introduced under the Government of India Act, 1919, did not satisfy the Indian public opinion which continued to press for a fully responsible government in India. The Act itself contained...
PARTITION OF THE PUNJAB
Tags: punjab, pakistan, partition, league, india, muslim, sikhs, mission, muslims, government, singh, sikh
PARTITION OF THE PUNJAB (1947) was the result of the overwhelming support the Muslim demand for the creation of Pakistan, an independent and sovereign Muslim State, had gathered in India. When the word Pakistan was first mentioned, the idea had been...
POPULATION
Tags: sikhs, punjab, sikh, population, census, guru, india, cent, singh, numbers, east, 1921
POPULATION of the Sikhs, small as compared to other major religious communities of India, is chiefly concentrated in the Punjab, India, although being fond of travel, Sikhs are found in nearly all corners of the globe. The community is 500 years...
PUNJAB BOUNDARY COMMISSION
Tags: punjab, boundary, district, commission, pakistan, river, justice, muslim, league, line, indian, award
PUNJAB BOUNDARY COMMISSION was one of the two high powered panels set up under Governor General Lord Mountbatten`s partition plan of 3 June 1947 (the other one being the Bengal Boundary Commission) to divide the Punjab between India and Pakistan,...
PUNJABI SUBA MOVEMENT
Tags: singh, tara, master, punjabi, sikhs, punjab, sikh, sant, government, fateh, minister, akali
PUNJABI SUBA MOVEMENT, a long drawn political agitation launched by the Sikhs demanding the creation of Punjabi Suba or Punjabi speaking state in the Punjab. At Independence it was commonly recognized that the Indian states then comprising the...
RADCLIFFE AWARD
Tags: punjab, boundary, commission, award, india, radcliffe, lahore, line, 1947, pakistan, partition, district
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...
REGIONAL FORMULA
Tags: punjab, punjabi, akali, regional, government, singh, language, hindi, committee, state, formula, sikh
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...
TARA SINGH-NEHRU PACT
Tags: singh, tara, master, government, 1959, akali, interference, shiromani, committee, sgpc, punjabi, sikhs
TARA SINGHNEHRU PACT refers to an understanding arrived at in 1959 between Master Tara Singh, the Akali leader, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, in order to remove certain misgivings of the Sikhs with regard to government...
 


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