Surinder Singh
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Sikhism, the youngest of the world religions, is barely five hundred years old. Its founder, Guru Nanak was born in 1469. Guru Nanak spread a simple message of Ek Ong Kar: we are all one, created by the one creator of all creation. This was at a time when India was being torn apart by castes, sectarianism, religious factions and fanaticism. He aligned with no religion, and respected all religions. He expressed the reality that there is one God and many paths, and ...
Banda Singha, Bahadura, 1670-1716?, Sikh religious and military leader.
The Sikh coinage has a number of distinct and unique features vis-a-vis prevailing currencies in India. Almost every Sikh historian, European or Indian who wrote about Sikhs, has commented on Sikh coins, based on earlier accounts with some modification but without any examination of the coins which were readily available. These accounts have spread disinformation and distortions to such an extent that the few numismatists who examined the Sikh coins also ...
Naina Singh Dhoot (1904-1989) played a pioneer role in the communist movement of the Indian subcontinent. He grew up in the Chenab Canal Colony, joined the Ghadar Paraty in Argentina and studied Marxism in Moscow. Returning to India in 1936, NSD established a night school at Calcutta for teaching Marxism. He revived the muzara movement in the Nili Bar and suffered police torture in the Lahore fort. He guided major strikes of industrial workers in Jamshedpur, ...