Word: sikhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair grow long and talk Punjabi," said the young soldier to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. "That is all that makes a Sikh. " But he did not say this very loud...
Sikhistan. The idea of having their own home state became firmly fixed in the Sikh mind at the time of the partition of old British India, when some Sikh country was shaved off to make part of what is now West Pakistan. Forced to move out, the Sikhs left a trail of massacre behind them, and were furious when Nehru ordered their swords to be sewn into their leather scabbards. Said old Tara Singh: "When the Moslems can get Pakistan, and the Hindus India, why not a Sikhs' Sikhistan?" But Nehru's Congress Party won over many...
These are sacred places ... for me more sacred than temples, gurdwaras [Sikh shrines] and mosques. I feel more religious-minded when I see these great works." While Indians cheered, tempers rose in neighboring West Pakistan. Premier Mohammed Ali called an emergency Cabinet session, and lodged a strong protest with New Delhi. For years the two nations have quarreled about water almost as much as they have quarreled over Kashmir. World Bank officials in Washington are trying to get them together on a plan for joint Indian-Pakistani development of the waters of the Sutlej and four other rivers which join...
...King-size (6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs.) Pardu-man Singh of India, dubbed the "Samson" of the meet. Blackbearded Singh, a Sikh sergeant in the Indian army's armored corps, won the shotput (46 ft. 4⅝ in.) and discus...
...runs out on a marriage with a gentle Sikh nationalist, because "it was awful, trying to be an Indian," and there would be nothing to talk about except "politics and strikes and the future of mankind...