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Sikhs Are Dominating This World Day By Day

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Sikhs In World War - 1

Who Can Forget The Heroism Of Sikhs in The World War 1 & 2

"Thousand and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have lost their lives. If you go on the field of battle you will see corpses piled upon corpses, so that their is no place to place or put hand or foot. Men have died from the stench. No one has any hope of survival, for back to Punjab will go only those who have lost a leg or an arm or an eye. The whole world has been brought to destruction." (letter home from a Sikh soldier)
Over 138,000 Indian troops fought in Belgium and France during World War I, many of them Sikhs. More than one quarter of these soldiers would became casualties.
In the first battle of Ypres at Flanders in 1914 a platoon of Dogra Sikhs died fighting to the last man, who shot himself with his last cartridge rather than surrender.
After the bloody battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915 the Sikh regements had lost 80% of their men, 3 regements stood at only 16% of their original compliment.
"It was the dark days of 1914 when our men had to face mortars, hand grenades, high explosive shells for which they themselves were not provided. They could reply only with their valour, their rifles and two machine guns per batallion. And yet they did it." (Lt. General Sir James Wilcox, Commander of the Indian Corps).
Harbinder Singh Rana, Projects Director, of the Maharaja Duleep Singh Centenary Trust thanked the Prince and highlighted the fact that the current British Army has 109,000 soldiers, while 107,000 Sikhs were injured in the two World Wars. He also went on to say that the Trust is working with the Army to increase Sikh participation in the UK's armed forces and to rekindle the spirit of the Sikh soldiers of the past. Finally he reflected upon the recent electoral success of the far right in France and suggested that M. Le Penn visit one of the battlefields in France where he can reflect while reading the names on a memorial of thousands of Sikhs who gave their lives to protect the freedom of France.
Sikhs In World War - 2

As The Allied Nations Stepped Even Closer To 2nd Global Conflict, This Time With The Germans And The Imperial Japanese, SIKH Soldiers Once Again Step Forward For British Indian Army. Sikhs Again Fought Against Number Of  Opposing Soldiers, Where Sikh Units Were Largely Deployed. INDIA Entered The War When The Viceroy Of India, Lord Linlithgow, Declared a War Against Germany On Behalf Of India, Without Consulting Indian Leaders.
The leading platoon was headed by Naik Gian Singh, recognizing the gravity of the situation and the seriousness of defeat, Gian Singh pushed forward with his men behind him. As the inevitable volley of shots from the Japanese foxholes burst from the bush, Gian Singh ordered his men to cover him, while single handedly he cleared foxhole after foxhole. Despite being severely wounded in the arm, he continued to push through the intense fire, compleiate call for a Victoria Cross, the highest order of gallantry in the British Army was made. Gian Singh was awarded ttely routing the enemy, and clearing a strategically vital road. The Japanese were forced to retreat. An immedhe Victoria Cross 16th October 1945; King George VI pinned the medal on in a celebration at Buckingham Palace. Gian Singh's conduct was unquestionably in the finest traditions of the 15th Punjab Regiment.
Sixteen days after Gian Singh's remarkable act of bravery, Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge, again of the 4th Battalion, eliminated 10 enemy bunkers and was mortally wounded while attacking a nest of three more. He was to become the third member of the 4th Battalion to be awarded the Victoria Cross. By the end of the war two more VCs were to be awarded to Sikh soldiers. Parkash Singh  in three separate actions, each in action worthy of the title of supreme gallantry rescued stranded vehicles under intense fire. Again in Burma, Nand Singh of the famed 1st Sikh battalion was fittingly awarded the VC after leading an attack on heavily armed Japanese trenches on a knife edged hill, he single handedly cleared and captured three enemy trenches, which allowed the rest of the unit to forge forward to gain a unanticipated victory.






"A remarkable people, the Sikhs, with their Ten Prophets, five distinguishing marks, and their baptismal rite of water stirred with steel; a people who have made history, and will make it again."
quote from Martial India, F. Yeats Brown, 1945
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In the last two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded. They all died or were wounded for the freedom of Britain and the world and during shell fire, with no other protection but the turban, the symbol of their faith." 

Percentage Of Sikhs In Indian Army

2% of India's Population Are Sikhs but Account For It's 26% GNP(gross national product).
Khalistan is Viable Not Only Economically but Also Militarily. 
In 1947 , Sikhs Made up 50% of Indian Army Officers,  38% of Air Force and 33% of Combat Soldiers.
So, Sikhs Played Major Role In Indian Army for Protection For Our Nation.

Number Of Sikhs In Whole World

Maximum Proportion Of Sikhs Are In India i.e. in PUNJAB i.e.22000000 (approx.)
In Canada i.e. 468670 (approx.)
In United Kingdom i.e.432429 (approx.)
In United States i.e. 250000 (approx.) and many more
Least Number Of Sikhs Are Found In PAKISTAN i.e. 20000 But According To  Previous Reports Maximum Sikhs Are From Norther India And Pakistan.
In Today's World SIKHS are Dominating All Over The World .
There Are approx. 102 Millions Sikhs In The World.
Now, In Present Days CANADA has World'S Most Sikh Cabinet
Among the diverse crowd are four ministers of Sikh origin — a conspicuously high number when you consider that India, where most Sikhs live, only counts two Sikhs in current senior cabinet-level positions.

Harjit Sajjan, 42, a former police officer and veteran of three military deployments to Afghanistan, is now Canada's defense minister. He swiftly became the subject of social media celebrity.



The others are Amarjeet Sohi, sworn in as Canada's minister of infrastructure; Navdeep Bains, 38, a business school professor who now has the portfolio for innovation, science and economic development; and Bardish Chagger, 35, a daughter of Sikh immigrants who was sworn in as minister of small business and tourism.



Sikhs belong to a religion that emerged at the intersection of Islam and Hinduism in South Asia in the 15th century. They comprise a small percentage of India's population, but a more considerable proportion of the Indian diaspora, particularly in Canada. Indians make up almost 4 percent of Canada's overall population; Sikhs count for around 1.5 percent.
Punjabi, the language of the Indian state that's the homeland of most Sikhs, is now effectively the third language of Canada's parliament. Nineteen Indian Canadians in total were voted into the 338-seat House of Commons in Ottawa in federal elections last month.
The ascension of figures like Sajjan and Sohi may not please all Indians, though. Sajjan is connected to the influential World Sikh Organization, a group, that despite its name, has links to the fringe, militant radicalism of the Khalistan movement — a Sikh separatist uprising that flared in India in the 1980s.
The violence at the time included the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight that killed 329 people. Inderjit Singh Reyat, a Canadian national of Sikh origin, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the bombing in 2003 and is serving a 15-year prison sentence.
Sajjan has brushed off any link to the now subdued Khalistan cause and told CBC last year that he has "no negative vibes from anybody" in his constituency.
Sohi was born in Punjab in 1964 and grew up in a close-knit Sikh family. After moving to Canada as a teenager, he went back to India in his early 20s to work as a social activist. But he was swept up by local police in the state of Bihar amid a climate of fear and hysteria over the threat of Sikh terrorism and was imprisoned for two years without charge.

According to reports, Sohi says he was tortured and kept in solitary confinement. The Edmonton Journal has more.
Amnesty International took up his case, as did a local Edmonton interfaith coalition. Sohi says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, commonly referred to as CSIS, did as much to help free him as anyone.
CSIS investigated Sohi’s Edmonton activities, reporting to officials in India he was no threat.
But Sohi says his jailers didn’t want to lose face by admitting the big international terrorist they had captured was nothing of the sort. They made up wilder and wilder charges, accusing him of training with Muslim militants in Pakistan, then of being a Maoist agent, then of having links to the Tamil Tigers.
Then came a change of government in Bihar. The prosecutor formally requested the case be dismissed, saying “there is a lack of evidence against Mr. Sohi and also his prosecution is against public policy of the state.”
The judge agreed. On July 9, 1990, he ordered Sohi “released forthwith
The ordeal led to Sohi's return to Canada and formed the bedrock of his politics. It's relevant now in the context of growing Islamophobia in both Canada and the United States amid concerns over infiltration by Islamist extremists.
“Once I was mistaken for a terrorist because I was a Sikh. If we start marginalizing people here because of their faith, who does that help?" Sohi asked the Alberta newspaper. "It doesn’t help us. It probably helps [the Islamic State]."

Success In SPORTS

ATHLETICS

1st Name Come In Our Mind After Hearing About Achievements In Sports By Sikhs is 
Sardaar JEEV MILKHA SINGH i.e. The Flying Sikh. He's a ATHLETE and Made Our Nation Feel Proud many Times. 


For More Details-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkha_Singh


Other Athletes are - GURBACHAN SINGH RANDHAWA

                                   KAMALJEET SANDHU 

                                   FAUJA SINGH- 100 year old marathon runner

BASKETBALL

>Sim Bhullar-canadian professional basketball player
>Satnam Singh Bhamara

BOXING



CYCLING

  • Alexi Grewal, Olympic Gold medalist(1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles)

CRICKET


EQUESTRIAN

FOOTBALL


Golf

Hockey


Mixed martial arts

Muay Thai

Powerlifting

Rugby

Tosh Masson


Shooting

Swimming

Pamela Rai, 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 1986 Commonwealth Games gold medalist

Wrestling





SIKHS IN BUSINESS



SIKHS IN VARIOUS FIELDS

Historians

Journalists

Writers

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu

English

Models

Humanitarians

Painters and artists

Architects

Health and wellness

David Shannahoff-Khalsa, prolific researcher on the psychiatric applications of Kundalini Yoga based at the Biocircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego.

Science and technology

Medicine

  • Harvinder Sahota, cardiologist; invented the FDA-approved Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty and holds patents of 24 other medical inventions.
  • Harminder Dua, discovered a previously unknown layer lurking in the human eye named the "dua's layer".

Physics

  • Narinder Singh Kapany, physicist, specializing in fiber optics. He was named as one of the seven "Unsung Heroes" by Fortune Magazine in its Businessmen of the Century (November 22, 1999) edition.
  • Corporate Professionals

Law

Banking

Military leaders

Indian Air Force

Indian army

Gen. Joginder Jaswant Singh, former Chief, Indian Army.

Military Gallantry Award Winners

British Indian Army

Victoria Cross

Indian Armed Forces

Param Veer Chakra

Mahavir Chakra




SIKHS are making all countries to feel proud but all of these SIKH people are basically from INDIA more specific PUNJAB. 

In every field SIKH people are making much efforts to shine in that particular field.
 ********************A HUGE RESPECT FOR SIKH COMMUNITY************************** 


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