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Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or a caste name. Different castes still exist today in some aspects of Punjabi culture; similarly to the Hindu caste system, this system is based on employment [citation needed] (ex. jatt signifies the farming caste).
Sikh (/ ˈ s iː k / or / ˈ s ɪ k /; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, sikkh IPA:) is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit term śiṣya , meaning "disciple, learner" or śikṣa , meaning "instruction".
Indian Punjabi Sikh armies during their military training The militarization of Punjabi Sikhs began after the execution of Guru Arjan Dev (5th Guru in Sikhism ). Following his execution, a conflict erupted between the Mughal Empire and Sikhs which led to the last guru, Gobind Singh , establishing a militarized order known as the Khalsa , in ...
When Punjabi had been successfully inducted into the Punjab University Lahore curriculum through Singh Sabha efforts, and the oriental College Lahore by 1877, this had been opposed by the Hindu board members of the college. This would solidify the perception of Punjabi as a Sikh language, with its literary output largely confined to Sikh writers.
In 1930, a Sikh Research Centre was founded within the college of Ganda Singh, who headed it until 1947. [2] The Sikh Research Centre of Khalsa College has since grown to encompass a library and art galleries, containing thousands of artefacts, books, manuscripts, and paintings related to Sikhs and Sikhism. [2]
"The Rise of the Honorable Guru Panth/Sikh Community"), [1] is a historical text about Sikh history in the 1700s by Rattan Singh Bhangu and was completed in the early 1810s. [ note 1 ] [ 2 ] The text's opening foundation briefly covers the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus, then traces the accomplishments of the Sikh community from 1708 to the ...
Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
Dal Khalsa is a Sikh organisation, based in the city of Amritsar.The outfit was formed in 1978 by Gajinder Singh, the hijacker [5] [6] [7] of Indian Airlines Flight 423. [2] [3] It came to prominence during Insurgency in Punjab along with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in 1981.