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Bhindranwale was born on 2 June 1947, [5]: 151 as Jarnail Singh Brar to a Jat Sikh family, in the village of Rode, [3] in Moga District (then a part of Faridkot District), [58] located in the region of Malwa. [1]
Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale made a speech from the Guru Nanak Niwas on October 16 condemning the massacre, but accusing Indira Gandhi of double standards for dismissing Darbara Singh's government in response, questioning why she did not do so on account of the 200 Sikhs who "achieved martyrdom" at the hands of Punjab police during Dharam Yudh ...
Tully's first book on India Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle (1985) was co-authored with his colleague at BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to Operation Blue Star, Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from ...
The Sant Nirankari Mission splintered from the Nirankari sect in the 20th century. Nirankari, a movement within Sikhism, started in the mid-19th century.Their belief in a living guru as opposed to the scriptural guru, Guru Granth Sahib, developing over the decades especially in one branch, [2] resulted in their difference with traditional Sikhs, though they were tolerated. [3]
Amrik Singh was a prominent leader of the Damdami Taksal along with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. He contested the 1979 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) election, backed by Bhindranwale, but lost to Jiwan Singh Umranangal. [5] On 26 April 1982, he led a campaign to get Amritsar the status of a "holy city".
The Dharam Yuddh Morcha (Punjabi pronunciation: [t̪ə̀ɾᵊmə̆ jʊ́d̪ːə̆ moːɾᵊt͡ʃaː]) ("righteous campaign") [5] was a political movement launched on 4 August 1982, [1] by the Akali Dal in partnership with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, with its stated aim being the fulfillment of a set of devolutionary objectives based on the Anandpur Sahib Resolution.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947–1984), religious leader; Jarnail Singh (footballer) (1936–2000), captain of the India national football team from 1965 to 1967; Jarnail Singh (referee) (born 1962), retired English association football referee of Indian descent; Jarnail Singh (physician) (1953–2021), Singaporean physician specialised in ...