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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)
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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="Admin" data-source="post: 112622" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Samurai Sikhs</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The story of Sikligars of </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Maharashtra caught in a centuries-old time warp.</span></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></em></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">NAGPUR: Khadak Singh Joone has lost count of the years he has lived. “I'm a hundred and ten,” he says, more by way of a question, as he peers through thick glasses which haven't been wiped for probably that long.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">He caresses a country-made muzzle-loader gun as if it were his only child and takes pride in whipping out his firearms licence issued by the Government of Bombay under a GR of </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">September 17, 1895.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">He's acquired the surname ‘Joone’ not because he's so old but because he was the first one in a settlement of more than 400 in the tiny highway </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">village</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> of </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Talegaon</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">, about 90 km from Nagpur. </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Khadak Singh is a Sikh. He swears by the Gurus and the Granth Sahib. He adorns the kesh, kangha, kirpan, kachha and kada. But the similarity with the popular image of a ‘Sardarji’ ends there. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">He does not know a word of Punjabi nor can he read the Gurmukhi. He's dark-skinned and he's very, very poor. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">He's a Sikligar. This tribe, with its roots in Rajasthan, lives in scattered pockets in central and eastern </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Maharashtra. </span> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As Sikhs all over the world celebrated 300 years of the Khalsa, for Khadak Singh and his tribesmen, this Baisakhi was no different from any other. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">They sat hunched over their anvils in ramshackle huts, bathed in sweat, hammering away to turn strips of iron into swords, daggers, guptis and kitchen implements. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It's been like this for centuries. Recollections are hazy now and history survives only in word of mouth. It is believed that their ancestors were brought over from Rajasthan by the Sikh Gurus because they were exceptionally skilled in making swords and spearheads. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">When Gurudwara Hajoor Sahib was established at Nanded, several hundred families of Sikligars were brought in. Nanded then formed a part of the estate of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Perhaps it was the threat from the Muslim Nizam which prompted the Sikh Gurus to enlist the services of the sword craftsmen here as well. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As time passed and their numbers grew, the Sikligars had to strike out on their own. “Our ancestors would buy iron strips in </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hyderabad, turn them into swords and daggers and sell in the villages around Nanded,” recalls 80-year-old Maya Singh Bawri. </span> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The Sikligars fled Nanded during the communal riots in 1947-48. Interestingly, Maya Singh refers to the </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Independence as ‘Gandhi Raj.’ Small groups of Sikligars made their way eastward. In their struggle for existence, they had obtained firearm licences from the British and later the Indian government. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Local farmers would hire them to protect their fields. “We may be very poor but the one thing we've been able to uphold always is our honesty. That's why wealthy agriculturists would entrust us with protection of their property,” says Maya Singh. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">By the late '50s and early '60s, some families had settled on the outskirts of </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Amravati</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> in Vidarbha. Khadak Singh recalls that he first came to Talegaon, which lies on the Mumbai-Calcutta National Highway No 6, when offered a contract by some big landowners of Arvi. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Arvi, now in Wardha district, was a prosperous township. It is off the national highway about 15 km from Talegaon. The entire area was once covered by thick forests and the farmers were plagued by herds of wild boar and deer which ruined their crops. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Khadak Singh, Maya Singh and a few other families migrated to Talegaon one after another. The yearly contracts were worth anywhere between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 which was good money in those days. Also, being on the highway and within striking distance of two major towns, </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Nagpur and Amravati, the tribesmen had easy access to raw material to make their swords and daggers. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Even now some youths from the settlement are hired by local farmers to guard their fields. But, with forests being chopped down and wildlife shrinking they cannot depend on this as a source of livelihood. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">For their livelihood, they still depend on what they've been doing for centuries -- selling swords, daggers and guptis. Youngsters between eight and 15, who are not yet strong enough to beat the ironstrips into shape all day, sell their wares on the highway and at the bus stand. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">They've fallen into the bad books of local policemen. “Each one of us has four or five cases against his name,” says 26-year-old Leader Singh Bawri. The Sikligars admit that the cops are only doing their job and bear them no grudge. “They do their job and we ours,” adds Bharat Singh Tak. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bharat Singh holds a bachelor's degree in science but can't find a job. “We come under Nomadic Tribes but are numerically and politically too weak to derive any benefits,” he said. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">According to him, the average household income in the settlement is not more than Rs 8,000 a year. Of the 52 huts, only 12 are on regularised land. The rest is encroachment, the Sikligars readily admit. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“Whenever there is a good crop of tur dal in the fields, we're happier than the farmers,” said Manohar Singh Tak. The tribesmen use dried tur stalks to make walls and roofs of their huts. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Isolation and poverty have made them wary of strangers. Once inside the settlement, an outsider gets the feeling of having travelled back in time -by a few centuries. </span></p><p> <em> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-size: 9px">To know more about Sikligar Sikhs and how you can join the movement for their education and empowerment, write to Jagmohan Singh at <a href="mailto:jsbigideas@gmail.com">jsbigideas@gmail.com</a></span></strong></span></em></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 112622, member: 1"] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5]Samurai Sikhs[/SIZE][/FONT][/B][B][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/B][B][I][FONT=Arial]The story of Sikligars of [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Maharashtra caught in a centuries-old time warp. [/FONT][/I][/B][FONT=Arial]NAGPUR: Khadak Singh Joone has lost count of the years he has lived. “I'm a hundred and ten,” he says, more by way of a question, as he peers through thick glasses which haven't been wiped for probably that long. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]He caresses a country-made muzzle-loader gun as if it were his only child and takes pride in whipping out his firearms licence issued by the Government of Bombay under a GR of [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]September 17, 1895. [/FONT][FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]He's acquired the surname ‘Joone’ not because he's so old but because he was the first one in a settlement of more than 400 in the tiny highway [/FONT][FONT=Arial]village[/FONT][FONT=Arial] of [/FONT][FONT=Arial] Talegaon[/FONT][FONT=Arial], about 90 km from Nagpur. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Khadak Singh is a Sikh. He swears by the Gurus and the Granth Sahib. He adorns the kesh, kangha, kirpan, kachha and kada. But the similarity with the popular image of a ‘Sardarji’ ends there. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] He does not know a word of Punjabi nor can he read the Gurmukhi. He's dark-skinned and he's very, very poor. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]He's a Sikligar. This tribe, with its roots in Rajasthan, lives in scattered pockets in central and eastern [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Maharashtra. [/FONT][FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] As Sikhs all over the world celebrated 300 years of the Khalsa, for Khadak Singh and his tribesmen, this Baisakhi was no different from any other. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] They sat hunched over their anvils in ramshackle huts, bathed in sweat, hammering away to turn strips of iron into swords, daggers, guptis and kitchen implements. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] It's been like this for centuries. Recollections are hazy now and history survives only in word of mouth. It is believed that their ancestors were brought over from Rajasthan by the Sikh Gurus because they were exceptionally skilled in making swords and spearheads. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] When Gurudwara Hajoor Sahib was established at Nanded, several hundred families of Sikligars were brought in. Nanded then formed a part of the estate of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Perhaps it was the threat from the Muslim Nizam which prompted the Sikh Gurus to enlist the services of the sword craftsmen here as well. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] As time passed and their numbers grew, the Sikligars had to strike out on their own. “Our ancestors would buy iron strips in [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Hyderabad, turn them into swords and daggers and sell in the villages around Nanded,” recalls 80-year-old Maya Singh Bawri. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The Sikligars fled Nanded during the communal riots in 1947-48. Interestingly, Maya Singh refers to the [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Independence as ‘Gandhi Raj.’ Small groups of Sikligars made their way eastward. In their struggle for existence, they had obtained firearm licences from the British and later the Indian government. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Local farmers would hire them to protect their fields. “We may be very poor but the one thing we've been able to uphold always is our honesty. That's why wealthy agriculturists would entrust us with protection of their property,” says Maya Singh. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]By the late '50s and early '60s, some families had settled on the outskirts of [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Amravati[/FONT][FONT=Arial] in Vidarbha. Khadak Singh recalls that he first came to Talegaon, which lies on the Mumbai-Calcutta National Highway No 6, when offered a contract by some big landowners of Arvi. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Arvi, now in Wardha district, was a prosperous township. It is off the national highway about 15 km from Talegaon. The entire area was once covered by thick forests and the farmers were plagued by herds of wild boar and deer which ruined their crops. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Khadak Singh, Maya Singh and a few other families migrated to Talegaon one after another. The yearly contracts were worth anywhere between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 which was good money in those days. Also, being on the highway and within striking distance of two major towns, [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Nagpur and Amravati, the tribesmen had easy access to raw material to make their swords and daggers. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Even now some youths from the settlement are hired by local farmers to guard their fields. But, with forests being chopped down and wildlife shrinking they cannot depend on this as a source of livelihood. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] For their livelihood, they still depend on what they've been doing for centuries -- selling swords, daggers and guptis. Youngsters between eight and 15, who are not yet strong enough to beat the ironstrips into shape all day, sell their wares on the highway and at the bus stand. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] They've fallen into the bad books of local policemen. “Each one of us has four or five cases against his name,” says 26-year-old Leader Singh Bawri. The Sikligars admit that the cops are only doing their job and bear them no grudge. “They do their job and we ours,” adds Bharat Singh Tak. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Bharat Singh holds a bachelor's degree in science but can't find a job. “We come under Nomadic Tribes but are numerically and politically too weak to derive any benefits,” he said. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] According to him, the average household income in the settlement is not more than Rs 8,000 a year. Of the 52 huts, only 12 are on regularised land. The rest is encroachment, the Sikligars readily admit. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] “Whenever there is a good crop of tur dal in the fields, we're happier than the farmers,” said Manohar Singh Tak. The tribesmen use dried tur stalks to make walls and roofs of their huts. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] Isolation and poverty have made them wary of strangers. Once inside the settlement, an outsider gets the feeling of having travelled back in time -by a few centuries. [/FONT] [I] [FONT=Arial] [B][SIZE=1]To know more about Sikligar Sikhs and how you can join the movement for their education and empowerment, write to Jagmohan Singh at [EMAIL="jsbigideas@gmail.com"]jsbigideas@gmail.com[/EMAIL][/SIZE][/B][/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Arial][/FONT][/I] [/QUOTE]
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