Word: punjabs
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...agreement creating the new predominantly Muslim entity of Pakistan, bordering India to both the northwest and east, the army was divided between the two nations roughly in proportion to their respective populations. Throughout the horrible violence and bloodshed following the separation, especially in the crucial northwest Indian state of Punjab, both forces exercised restraint toward one another and constant obedience to their respective governments, a rare occurrence indeed in war-torn underdeveloped countries...
...attack (which Indira Gandhi ordered) on the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, and now rumors abound that this catalyzed a high-level conspiracy in the army to assassinate Gandhi with the help of two of her Sikh bodyguards. Finally, the bulk of the unrest has occurred in Punjab, the Sikh homeland...
...brutal assassination of Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, a plethora of media coverage has catanulted Indian political and religious issues into the limelight of the international public. Most notably, the current rampant violence between Sikhs and Hindus throughout the country, but particularly in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab, has focused discussion on Gandhi's controversial decision to send the army into the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June to flush out the Sikh extremists there. But such debate has--at least in this country--typically lacked a deeper understanding of India's religious, political and historical traditions...
...treatment of the Sikhs would focus on her policies towards the Akali party when she regained power in 1980. During the two years following the 1977 election that voted Gandhi out of power, a coalition of the Sikh Akali party and the Hindu Janasangh party ruled the state of Punjab. When Gandhi and her Congress Party returned to rule the country, she made no effort to win over the ousted Akali politicians and incorporate them into the new government in Punjab. This left the Akalis to join forces with Bhindranwale, to become submerged in his extremist callings and to remain...
...their absence. Largely gone from the streets were the familiar bearded, turbaned men who have traditionally driven cabs and manned stores all around the capital. Half their cabs had been burned; perhaps 70% of their shops had been devastated. Some of the Sikhs fled to their homeland of Punjab; some still cowered inside the houses of Hindu neighbors. Others, whose homes were destroyed or had to be abandoned, huddled together within makeshift refugee camps...