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Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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Gurbani (696-703)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Thitteen (838-840)
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Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 155063" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Away from Punjab - the south Indian Sikhs</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em><strong><strong>By Biswajit Choudhury , Bangalore, Oct 17 : </strong>South Indian Sikhs? The description may seem unfamiliar. While Sikhs are overwhelmingly associated with Punjab, much less known are those from the community who made their home in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra centuries ago.</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">For instance, there are around 25 Sikligar families tucked away at the rear of a redeveloped slum in the peripheries of this city. Their present state, as that of other Sikh groups like Banjara, Lubana and Satnami, leading socio-economically marginalised lives and mostly outside Punjab, has prompted initiatives for the uplift of these "forgotten Sikhs".</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The process of blending into southern India for the Sikligars began at the time of 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, who came to the Deccan and passed away in 1708 at Nanded (Maharashtra).</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The resilience of these people in the face of centuries of vicissitudes and hardship is remarkable," Harminder Singh, secretary of the Karnataka Sikh Welfare Society (KSWS), told IANS.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Sikligars came to southern India as expert arms-making camp followers of the tenth Guru. Sikligar is a compound of the Persian words 'saiqal' and 'gar' meaning a polisher of metal.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Famed for their weapon-making skills, the Sikligar continue with their traditional occupation to eke out a precarious living, crafting kitchen implements. To compound their current distress, they are mostly illiterate.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">They are categorized as Scheduled Castes in the census of India.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Bangalore-based KSWS provides scholarships to Sikligar children to acquire formal education. Older Sikligars are encouraged to join Punjabi learning classes to wean them away from illiteracy.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Amardas Singh, 23, is a Sikligar beneficiary of the KSWS scholarship programme with a job in the financial sector.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Education will definitely help improve our condition," he says, "but with youngsters less inclined to the life of an iron smith, the craftsmanship coming down from our forefathers may be lost."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Amardas also points to the need to upgrade Sikligar skills, citing the case of the kirpan, the small sheathed dagger carried by observant Sikhs.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The kirpan industry in India is quite hard hit by competition from cheaper kirpans made in China. If our artisans had the finance to upgrade their skills and equipment, we could compete better," Amardas says.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Another group of Sikhs came to the south early in the 19th century when the Nizam of Hyderabad raised a Sikh contingent in his army. The Sikhs stayed back and their descendants are known as the Dakhini or southern Sikhs.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">There is a community of Ahom converts to Sikhism from the time of the ninth Guru Tegh Bahadur's travel to Assam. Agrahari Sikhs, also known as Bihari Sikhs, have lived for centuries in Bihar and Jharkhand.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Banjaras are a nomadic tribe who traditionally travelled with merchandise and are found across a large swathe of northern India, as well as in the south. Sikh Banjaras too travelled with armies of the past supplying them with provisions.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Sikhs comprise more than 60 percent of the population of Punjab.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But Sikh scholar Chiranjiv Singh speaks on the question of Sikhs born and bred among a culture distant from the Punjab region, the home of Sikhism. From a Punjabi Sikh family, Chiranjiv served as a senior Indian Administrative Service officer of the Karnataka cadre. Steeped in Kannada culture, he has made Bangalore his home.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Chiranjiv is of the view that non-Punjabi Sikhs and Sikh tribes, whose numbers together are said to be larger than Sikhs in the Punjab, "should be left free to chart their own future, independent of the lead of Punjabi Sikhs."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">India's awesome diversity of people coupled with its unique history of coexisting identities have helped evolve a dynamic process of interchange between different cultures and ethnicities.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The relations of Sikhs of Punjab vis-a-vis other Sikhs is one complex part of this process, especially in the context of the depressed social and economic situation of the latter.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"They should be liberated, so to speak, from the hold of the Punjabi Sikhs," says Chiranjiv adding, "Sikhism, which was a movement of subalterns for freedom from the inequities imposed by the social system, would thus be returning to its origins."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">(Biswajit Choudhury can be contacted at <a href="mailto:bi.choudhury@gmail.com">bi.choudhury@gmail.com</a>) </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">--IANS </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-88897.html" target="_blank">http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-88897.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 155063, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Away from Punjab - the south Indian Sikhs[/SIZE][/B] [I][B][B]By Biswajit Choudhury , Bangalore, Oct 17 : [/B]South Indian Sikhs? The description may seem unfamiliar. While Sikhs are overwhelmingly associated with Punjab, much less known are those from the community who made their home in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra centuries ago.[/B][/I] For instance, there are around 25 Sikligar families tucked away at the rear of a redeveloped slum in the peripheries of this city. Their present state, as that of other Sikh groups like Banjara, Lubana and Satnami, leading socio-economically marginalised lives and mostly outside Punjab, has prompted initiatives for the uplift of these "forgotten Sikhs". The process of blending into southern India for the Sikligars began at the time of 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, who came to the Deccan and passed away in 1708 at Nanded (Maharashtra). "The resilience of these people in the face of centuries of vicissitudes and hardship is remarkable," Harminder Singh, secretary of the Karnataka Sikh Welfare Society (KSWS), told IANS. Sikligars came to southern India as expert arms-making camp followers of the tenth Guru. Sikligar is a compound of the Persian words 'saiqal' and 'gar' meaning a polisher of metal. Famed for their weapon-making skills, the Sikligar continue with their traditional occupation to eke out a precarious living, crafting kitchen implements. To compound their current distress, they are mostly illiterate. They are categorized as Scheduled Castes in the census of India. The Bangalore-based KSWS provides scholarships to Sikligar children to acquire formal education. Older Sikligars are encouraged to join Punjabi learning classes to wean them away from illiteracy. Amardas Singh, 23, is a Sikligar beneficiary of the KSWS scholarship programme with a job in the financial sector. "Education will definitely help improve our condition," he says, "but with youngsters less inclined to the life of an iron smith, the craftsmanship coming down from our forefathers may be lost." Amardas also points to the need to upgrade Sikligar skills, citing the case of the kirpan, the small sheathed dagger carried by observant Sikhs. "The kirpan industry in India is quite hard hit by competition from cheaper kirpans made in China. If our artisans had the finance to upgrade their skills and equipment, we could compete better," Amardas says. Another group of Sikhs came to the south early in the 19th century when the Nizam of Hyderabad raised a Sikh contingent in his army. The Sikhs stayed back and their descendants are known as the Dakhini or southern Sikhs. There is a community of Ahom converts to Sikhism from the time of the ninth Guru Tegh Bahadur's travel to Assam. Agrahari Sikhs, also known as Bihari Sikhs, have lived for centuries in Bihar and Jharkhand. Banjaras are a nomadic tribe who traditionally travelled with merchandise and are found across a large swathe of northern India, as well as in the south. Sikh Banjaras too travelled with armies of the past supplying them with provisions. Sikhs comprise more than 60 percent of the population of Punjab. But Sikh scholar Chiranjiv Singh speaks on the question of Sikhs born and bred among a culture distant from the Punjab region, the home of Sikhism. From a Punjabi Sikh family, Chiranjiv served as a senior Indian Administrative Service officer of the Karnataka cadre. Steeped in Kannada culture, he has made Bangalore his home. Chiranjiv is of the view that non-Punjabi Sikhs and Sikh tribes, whose numbers together are said to be larger than Sikhs in the Punjab, "should be left free to chart their own future, independent of the lead of Punjabi Sikhs." India's awesome diversity of people coupled with its unique history of coexisting identities have helped evolve a dynamic process of interchange between different cultures and ethnicities. The relations of Sikhs of Punjab vis-a-vis other Sikhs is one complex part of this process, especially in the context of the depressed social and economic situation of the latter. "They should be liberated, so to speak, from the hold of the Punjabi Sikhs," says Chiranjiv adding, "Sikhism, which was a movement of subalterns for freedom from the inequities imposed by the social system, would thus be returning to its origins." (Biswajit Choudhury can be contacted at [email]bi.choudhury@gmail.com[/email]) --IANS [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-88897.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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