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<blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh1" data-source="post: 156403" data-attributes="member: 635"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Tejwant Singh ji, thank you for loving my name.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I have spent all my life in the IAF as a fighter pilot and I am aware of Sardar </span></span><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hardit Singh Malik’s exploits during the First World War. The British did not exploit him. He joined on his own accord as a brave and adventurous man. His photographs and a write up about him is enshrined in the Air Force Museum at AF Station Palam. I am proud of him as a brave Sikh flyer of good reputation.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Scarlet Pimpernel is right. All soldiers took up military service with the British in both the great wars on their own accord as volunteers for a livelihood. Exploitation would be if someone was forcibly enrolled into the Armed Forces, made to work for some time and shunted out without any benefits.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My family was part of the Sikh Empire and my ancestors and many from our village fought as a matter of our duty towards our Maharaja. We lost 18 young men from our village in those wars. For number of years there were no weddings in our village as I have heard from my ancestors. But that was all part of the political and historical past in the same way as the Patiala Kingdom sided with the British rather than their Sikh brethren. My ancestors carried on with Military service with the British as a source of livelihood though they were greatly honored when large tracks of lands were allotted on their retirement. Lyalpur and Montgomery districts, where majority of the ex soldiers were settled, became the granaries of India.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Don’t mix a Sikh’s religious devotion with his profession or livelihood. Majority of the common soldiers are farmers. There is no Regiment for people who hail from business background. A farmer’s life is tough. One or two brothers manage the family lands while others take up military service. That has been the pattern in the rural area.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You living in America can propagate toppling of the Monarchy. Would a Sikh living in UK be right in saying that? No. The British people love their Queen.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Therefore whichever country the Sikhs have now migrated to they would be right if they take up respectful military service as a source of livelihood.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As far as the Kohinoor is concerned, it came to Maharaja Ranjit Singh as a bargain for pulling out Shah Shuja, the dethroned Afghan King, from the dungeon where his own cousin had locked him up in Srinagar. And the Kohinoor came to the Afghans because Ahmad Shah Abdali swindled it from the Persian treasury along with much gold and precious stone when Nadir Shah was assassinated. And Nadir Shah, the Persian King, took the Kohinoor from Mohammad Shah Rangila the debauch Mughal emperor, by tricking him to exchange turbans in 1739. And the British took it from Maharaja Daleep Singh as a spoil of war. Winners of wars have always been keepers of the loot as a norm in the past. Therefore who has more right upon the Kohinoor diamond? Moreover, Maharaja Ranjit Singh had wished that the Kohinoor diamond be sent to Jagannath Puri temple after his death.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">With warm regards,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tejwant Singh</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #001f4b"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Group Captain (retired)</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh1, post: 156403, member: 635"] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Dear Tejwant Singh ji, thank you for loving my name.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I have spent all my life in the IAF as a fighter pilot and I am aware of Sardar [/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Hardit Singh Malik’s exploits during the First World War. The British did not exploit him. He joined on his own accord as a brave and adventurous man. His photographs and a write up about him is enshrined in the Air Force Museum at AF Station Palam. I am proud of him as a brave Sikh flyer of good reputation.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Scarlet Pimpernel is right. All soldiers took up military service with the British in both the great wars on their own accord as volunteers for a livelihood. Exploitation would be if someone was forcibly enrolled into the Armed Forces, made to work for some time and shunted out without any benefits.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]My family was part of the Sikh Empire and my ancestors and many from our village fought as a matter of our duty towards our Maharaja. We lost 18 young men from our village in those wars. For number of years there were no weddings in our village as I have heard from my ancestors. But that was all part of the political and historical past in the same way as the Patiala Kingdom sided with the British rather than their Sikh brethren. My ancestors carried on with Military service with the British as a source of livelihood though they were greatly honored when large tracks of lands were allotted on their retirement. Lyalpur and Montgomery districts, where majority of the ex soldiers were settled, became the granaries of India.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Don’t mix a Sikh’s religious devotion with his profession or livelihood. Majority of the common soldiers are farmers. There is no Regiment for people who hail from business background. A farmer’s life is tough. One or two brothers manage the family lands while others take up military service. That has been the pattern in the rural area.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]You living in America can propagate toppling of the Monarchy. Would a Sikh living in UK be right in saying that? No. The British people love their Queen.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Therefore whichever country the Sikhs have now migrated to they would be right if they take up respectful military service as a source of livelihood.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]As far as the Kohinoor is concerned, it came to Maharaja Ranjit Singh as a bargain for pulling out Shah Shuja, the dethroned Afghan King, from the dungeon where his own cousin had locked him up in Srinagar. And the Kohinoor came to the Afghans because Ahmad Shah Abdali swindled it from the Persian treasury along with much gold and precious stone when Nadir Shah was assassinated. And Nadir Shah, the Persian King, took the Kohinoor from Mohammad Shah Rangila the debauch Mughal emperor, by tricking him to exchange turbans in 1739. And the British took it from Maharaja Daleep Singh as a spoil of war. Winners of wars have always been keepers of the loot as a norm in the past. Therefore who has more right upon the Kohinoor diamond? Moreover, Maharaja Ranjit Singh had wished that the Kohinoor diamond be sent to Jagannath Puri temple after his death.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]With warm regards,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Tejwant Singh[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#001f4b][FONT=Verdana]Group Captain (retired)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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