In the Gurkhas and Sikhs of India it found the men that made winning armies.
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Guru Hargobind started to militarise Sikhs so that they would be able to resist any oppression.
Some residents weren't depending on them: In West London, young Sikhs stood guard outside their temple.
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Sikhs around the world immediately swore vengeance and, just over four months later, they took it.
It also sharpened the growing divide between Hindus and Sikhs, which remains a source of conflict.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, Sikhs and non-believers.
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Afterward, I'll go to the gurdwara that 200 Sikhs cleaned yesterday as our sewa.
In neighboring towns, more than 20, 000 Sikhs violated curfew orders to gather for prayer meetings.
By Hindu temples, and mainline Protestants, Catholic Relief Services, African American churches, the United Sikhs.
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Its roots lay in a campaign by the Akali Dal, the Sikhs' main political party.
For Amritsar, a once-thriving city dominated by Sikhs, renewed trade could drive an economic revival.
Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other faiths together form about 6 percent of remaining Indians.
The right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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India's top investigating agency had accused Mr Kumar of inciting crowds to kill Sikhs in Delhi's Cantonment area.
That said, as Americans and as Sikhs, we are committed to respecting the essential rights of every human.
The Kara is worn by more Sikhs than the turban, which is not one of the Ks, she said.
In 1962, he represented Glasgow Sikhs at a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Nehru during his visit to Scotland.
We're Sikhs, so we're supposed to inspire by courage and never teach fear.
According to the 2011 Census, Slough is home to 14, 889 Sikhs, more than any other local authority in England and Wales.
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He also successfully campaigned for Sikhs to be exempt from having to wear motorcycle helmets while they were wearing a turban.
She said a group made up of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs had reflected the same diversity of opinion as other groups.
According to the 2011 Census, Slough is home to almost 15, 000 Sikhs, more than any other local authority in England and Wales.
More than 3, 000 Sikhs were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
Liberty claims the school is also breaching a 25-year-old Law Lords' decision allowing Sikhs to wear items such as turbans to school.
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Those against the amendment include a coalition of reformed Jews, some Protestant factions, Sikhs, Quakers, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians.
Attacks on Sikhs have also been reported elsewhere in the United States.
Many Sikhs believe he is the first to have been killed in retaliation for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
And that is a terrible thing on two levels because obviously neither Muslims nor Sikhs should be targeted for this kind of terrible violence.
Last week, two Canadian Sikhs were charged with having planted the 1985 bomb that killed 329 passengers and crew aboard an Air India flight.
The United States is home to about 700, 000 Sikhs, nearly all of Indian origin, according to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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