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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 195247" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Anglo Sikh Peace ji - There is actually a blog article to the same point you have made.</p><p></p><p><strong>Margaret Thatcher and the Golden Temple: will British Sikhs ever vote Tory again?</strong></p><p></p><p>By Will Heaven </p><p></p><p><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100254473/margaret-thatcher-and-the-golden-temple-will-british-sikhs-ever-vote-tory-again/" target="_blank">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100254473/margaret-thatcher-and-the-golden-temple-will-british-sikhs-ever-vote-tory-again/</a></p><p></p><p>Did Margaret Thatcher's government send an SAS officer to tell the Indian government how best to raid the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine?</p><p></p><p>It's an incendiary claim – and not yet a proven one. But the 1984 raid, called Operation Blue Star and carried out by the Indian Army to remove dissidents from the Golden Temple, resulted in hundreds of deaths, devastating damage to the temple and ultimately the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India's prime minister, later that year (as well as the horrendous anti-Sikh pogroms which ensued after her death in Delhi). Though they may not sympathise with the dissidents' aims, Sikhs all over the world still feel very strongly about the raid and its consequences.</p><p></p><p>That's why this claim is being taken so seriously by David Cameron, who has ordered Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, urgently to investigate possible British involvement.</p><p></p><p>The evidence for such involvement? Previously secret documents (PDF) that were released by the Government under the 30-year rule, published this week on the Stop Deportations blog and publicised by the Labour backbencher Tom Watson, whose West Bromwich constituency has a large Sikh community.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps surprisingly, Downing Street also says the Cabinet Secretary will "look at what issues there may have been around the decisions taken to release" the papers i.e. whether they should be in the public domain at all.</p><p></p><p>The letters are both dated February 1984 – four months before the raid – and they suggest that an SAS officer put forward a plan of action to the Indian government and that the Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe, believed it would be used.</p><p></p><p>Of course, we don't know if Operation Blue Star was in any way a British plan. Sir Mark Tully, who reported the raid for the BBC in 1984 and later wrote a book about it, doubts that the SAS had anything to do with it. According to an Indian media report, he said "it was not planned as a commando movement, and the SAS are commandos, and very soon, Operation Bluestar turned into a full-scaled infantry operation with tanks, and that it would be the last sort of thing the SAS would be involved in".</p><p></p><p>In time, Sir Jeremy Heywood may be able to clarify how much the Thatcher government was involved. But for now, the politics of this is quite straightforward: it's very bad for David Cameron and the Tories. Only last year the Prime Minister visited Amritsar, in an apparent effort to reach out to Britain's 800,000 Sikhs, who (as the FT reported) could be decisive in marginal seats in London and Leicester at the next general election. It seemed to be going well. The UK Sikh Federation said that a community that has traditionally favoured Labour was becoming more open to other parties.</p><p></p><p>Could a 30-year-old government document put an end to that?</p><p></p><p>PDF documents mentioned in the article can be accessed and copied from this link <a href="http://stopdeportations.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/prem-19-1273_binder.pdf" target="_blank">http://stopdeportations.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/prem-19-1273_binder.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 195247, member: 35"] Anglo Sikh Peace ji - There is actually a blog article to the same point you have made. [B]Margaret Thatcher and the Golden Temple: will British Sikhs ever vote Tory again?[/B] By Will Heaven [url]http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100254473/margaret-thatcher-and-the-golden-temple-will-british-sikhs-ever-vote-tory-again/[/url] Did Margaret Thatcher's government send an SAS officer to tell the Indian government how best to raid the Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine? It's an incendiary claim – and not yet a proven one. But the 1984 raid, called Operation Blue Star and carried out by the Indian Army to remove dissidents from the Golden Temple, resulted in hundreds of deaths, devastating damage to the temple and ultimately the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India's prime minister, later that year (as well as the horrendous anti-Sikh pogroms which ensued after her death in Delhi). Though they may not sympathise with the dissidents' aims, Sikhs all over the world still feel very strongly about the raid and its consequences. That's why this claim is being taken so seriously by David Cameron, who has ordered Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, urgently to investigate possible British involvement. The evidence for such involvement? Previously secret documents (PDF) that were released by the Government under the 30-year rule, published this week on the Stop Deportations blog and publicised by the Labour backbencher Tom Watson, whose West Bromwich constituency has a large Sikh community. Perhaps surprisingly, Downing Street also says the Cabinet Secretary will "look at what issues there may have been around the decisions taken to release" the papers i.e. whether they should be in the public domain at all. The letters are both dated February 1984 – four months before the raid – and they suggest that an SAS officer put forward a plan of action to the Indian government and that the Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe, believed it would be used. Of course, we don't know if Operation Blue Star was in any way a British plan. Sir Mark Tully, who reported the raid for the BBC in 1984 and later wrote a book about it, doubts that the SAS had anything to do with it. According to an Indian media report, he said "it was not planned as a commando movement, and the SAS are commandos, and very soon, Operation Bluestar turned into a full-scaled infantry operation with tanks, and that it would be the last sort of thing the SAS would be involved in". In time, Sir Jeremy Heywood may be able to clarify how much the Thatcher government was involved. But for now, the politics of this is quite straightforward: it's very bad for David Cameron and the Tories. Only last year the Prime Minister visited Amritsar, in an apparent effort to reach out to Britain's 800,000 Sikhs, who (as the FT reported) could be decisive in marginal seats in London and Leicester at the next general election. It seemed to be going well. The UK Sikh Federation said that a community that has traditionally favoured Labour was becoming more open to other parties. Could a 30-year-old government document put an end to that? PDF documents mentioned in the article can be accessed and copied from this link [url]http://stopdeportations.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/prem-19-1273_binder.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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