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Sikh women tied jooras on top of their heads. Maharani Mehtab kaur Maharani jind kaur Preist looks like he needs a bigger top

The sikh lady from amritsar has her jooda on top of her head. The ladies in the cart 2 of the ladies with the pink chunnis have their jooda tied on top of the head too.

Sikh women 1860s by artist Bishan Singh Maharaja Sher Singh court artist Bishan Singh sikh woman amritsar most likely british drawing

My dad lights jyot at home he worships our ancestors. You rub the cotton between your palms and then put it in the ghey it nearly burnt our house down once haha! But yh. In india they light them randomly in their houses, gurdware and ancestors tombs, my family do that stuff I guess it's nice to keep some tradition alive her in the west even if it is meaningless on diwali we light divaas as well with ghey

a bit off topic but i like the samurai armour. iv seen some at the victoria albert museum

Rajput katars and other shastar

I like puratan shastar Sikh weapons khanda khanjar dagger

They are a strange bunch. This sikh lady from chandigarh was surprised that I dont drink she said how can you be a sardar and not drink alcohol. I really was speechless. She then asked me why I dont tie my dhari up. Sikhs/indians from the cities are weirdos

thats not nice they are still sikh

i dont think its a bad idea either way i remember lord indarjit was against it yh i doubt they come from one tribe, the European ones are mostly converts. they say they come from the line of abraham-isac-joseph-jacob. bs really

do you reckon that will happen here? jews come from all races and cultures yet they are classified as one people, thats how they want it anyway

A summary of the maharajas of Patiala. They have been traitors from the beginning, the founder of the state ala singh and his family were excommunicated by dal khalsa in the 18th century so i dont know why these people are still considered Sikhs. The founder ala singh assisted abduli during his invasions and was given the title of maharaja by abduli. he later helped the mughals and then betrayed abduli by siding with the marthas. During anglo sikh war the patiala state sided with the british and then during the early 20th century they were part of the british raj. After the anglo sikh wars maharaja karam singh of patiala ordered his army to shoot nihung singhs on the spot. Today amrinder is a congress leader. This family is an enemy of the Khalsa and has always been, the very foundation of the family is linked to abduli

my cousin took by the back of a "modern restaurant" and massive bulks of meat i think it was sheep and goats were hanging out in the open behind the restaurant with swarms of around flys all over it. my thia took me to a chicken farm where they are being raised to slaughter and there were 100s all cramped in small places. Most the chickens in cages ready to kill are loosing their feathers and look like they have disease. men pissing out in the open is also common sight in the urban areas. luckily none of this has started happening in the pinds yet

i said the same thing they need to round these dogs up and kill them! they are disgusting and rabbid and iv seen to many shagging in the middle of the streets! near my dads pind theres a place where they take dead cows/buffalo and skin them and the dogs around there are like fcking hyenas, that area has now become a no go zone. people are really scared to these dogs. At night they run around in packs that are 30/40 strong and howl all night. i went for a walk with my cousin sister at night with a pet dog and around 10 dogs started running towards us and barking luckily the pet dog was bigger and intimidated them, while this was going on we walked of really fast and got away. wild hogs/boars are another problem, the wild pigs actually eat the dogs which is great but they have attacked people too. I went to my thias fields and we saw pig footprints in the mitti.

yh thats what i mean, the reform movements happened because of everything that was happening back then. but in the process some leaders kinda became anti bhaman and removed anything which reminded them of bhamans like lighting jot. arya samaj, rss, used hindu dharam as a political thing at that time, muslims in the cities started clashing with hindus, british missionaries started converting hindus etc so things like arya samaj and rss used their dharam as a political tool to tackle what they saw as a threat to their dharam, this is when they started calling Guru Gobind Singh ji a desh bhakt i think they thought by making sikhi a sect of hindu it will give hindu demography a boost in punjab. on top of that the massands. so reform movements like singh sabha did what they had to do. but in the process they put aside dasam bani and did other things. not much changed in pinds tho, people light jot in the gurdware to this day and some have things like shankh as well as nagara. people still use things like pang and afeem for desi treatment in pinds while urban sikhs in those days started turning their noses up to these things. it was how urban lot practiced sikhi that was reformed the most.

Yh that annoyed me when I saw it at the fort at anandpur sahib. Why would a 17th century fort have a khanda on it lol. I think older generation wouldn't be happy with a lot of puratan stuff. Sikh leaders in the last century almost became bhramin phobic and any practise or tradition which remotely reminded them of hinduism they wiped it out. Its one of the reasons why dasam bani got shoved to the side. Just like how the post that I posted about mansha singh, about him lighting jot at harmandir sahib and then sikhs questioning it because it's a bhaman practise. The war banners of the khalsa army during majaraja ranjit singhs time used to have kali mata and other war goddesses on it, imagine bringing that back today! It would cause a riot lmao. Couple of years back old wall paintings at tarn taran darbar sahib of hindu mythology were whitewashed and painted over with sikh ithiaasic scenes. My told me that in the local gurdwara when she was a kid they used to have a shankh shell in the gurdwara. These images were symbols of war, nothing more. Not that your average sikh cared, but leaders didnt want sikhi to be seen as a sect of hindu dharam which is understandable especially with all the events in the first half of the last century. Theres even a sikh flag from maharaja ranjit singhs time with hanuman on it. But younger people are less "insecure" about these things.

I never understood the glorification of architecture built by invaders in india. Why would a nation glorify buildings built by the very people who made you into slaves for 900 years. India has this strange love and hate relationship with the mughals. They love to romanticize them in their movies and art but then they hate them. The biggest example being the qutub minar. The qutub minar is made up of demolished hindu and jain mandirs, yet the qutub minar is Delhi's most iconic building. They are beautiful buildings, no need to demolish them, art is to be appreciated, but no need to romanticize them. Shah jahan love story is fake because he married more women after mamtaz died, if he loved her so much why he marry more women! The mughal monuments were built to keep the emperors immortal, so that they could live on forever. The grandness of the buildings was to make their memory grand and powerful for the future generations, the size of the tombs was to reflect the might and power of the emperors. Shahjahan had even planned a black Taj for himself on the other side of the yamuna river.

Moat this stuff is created by man. Swine flu was created by man and the way they run pig farms. And then they blame tge pigs. Same with HIV/aids they created that with their dodgy experiments gone wrong. Cancer makes them billions of pounds a year so they wont give the cure away, they already know the cure but it's become a business for them.

yh painting isn't accurate, I'd imagine harmandir sahib was a simply brick structure back then. In those dark times sikhs had no time to create a beautiful building, with local muslims, mughals and afghans hunting sikhs down from all direction. plus around this time many sikhs had gone and started living in forest areas, near rivers and rajasthan. there was another painting on mansha singh swimming towards harmandir sahib, cant find it online though. cant find absolutely anything about him online. i had been looking for his name since the day i posted this, i was gnna give up yesterday and then i asked guru gobind singh ji what his name was and around 3 mins later i came across this painting.

Welcome to sikhi:-) Yh she does really gd videos, really gd videos for someone who is new to sikhi. Explains everything really well.

So what does this mean then ? I dont get it

video of Baba jis bhora sahib at takt damdama sahib. Where about is this? coz iv been takt damdama sahib b4 years ago and didnt see this, is it in that tower out side the gurdwara?

found it! his name was Bhai Mansha Singh there is absolutely no information about him whatsoever, not even a single article, unless he was known by another name too ? when massa ranghar invaded Harmandir Sahib Bhai Mansha Singh used to secretly swim across the sarovar to light a jot in Harmandir Sahib, he did this on a daily bases and was eventually caught by the massa ranghars men and killed he became shaheed in 1743.

Old photo 1920s from harmandir sahib of raagis with different instruments harmandir sahib 1903 1920s harmandir sahib sant sham singh sewapanthi