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55 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Well, one question to ask is what would have happened if apnay fought (as in war) to re-establish their own independence in Panjab itself. I think it would have only taken a fraction of the number of those who fought in the foreign wars to have gained a victory in Panjab. Plus, strategically, it would have made sense in terms of attacking an occupier when they themselves are being attacked elsewhere. This would have starved the occupiers of both manpower and financial resources, as well as opening up another front - which I believe would have made them leave Panjab because of being overstretched with dealing with the Germans. I think one of the possible long term consequences of this would've possibly been a closer relationship with Russia and Sikhs?

 

Europe would have looked very different to now. There would probably have been no Hitler and ww2 either. 

Ideally yes that would have been best for all concerned. Sikhs would have had their nation sovereign state in all probability. Only problem was the Sikh princely states (patiala, jind, faridkot, nabha) which were under the British protectorate, were allied with the British imperialist occupiers and thus lent their Sikh soldier manpower to the British empire's war efforts in Europe. Had they collectively rebelled against the british in occupying punjab they would have had their freedom back to rule as they wish and safeguarded the Sikh kaum's future so no partition of punjab sikh homeland and no sikh genocide in 1947.

With the lack of manpower supplied to the british war efforts in europe then the british allied forces would have lost key divisive battles against the opposition german allied forces and overrun and invaded by them. England would be under german occupation either by the german kaiser imperial forces during ww1 or hitler's nazi foot-soldiers had world war 2 have to have been played out.

The British white historians and establishment down play the role of the Sikh and foreign commonwealth soldiers in both world wars they do not want to acknowledge the supreme sacrifices these men made for someone else's war because it doesn't suit their narrative.

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5 hours ago, genie said:

If they hadn't served the british army in both world wars. What would have been the likely outcomes for punjab/india and europe/uk?

Any predictions or assessments?

Problem you have is that Sikhs have been serving the British Army since at least the 1857 mutiny. 

The other thing is that the Indian troops were largely voluntarily, they weren't drafted like the British were in the World Wars. 

 

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12 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Problem you have is that Sikhs have been serving the British Army since at least the 1857 mutiny. 

The other thing is that the Indian troops were largely voluntarily, they weren't drafted like the British were in the World Wars. 

 

It was good pay, revenge, mistrust and hatred for the arch enemy mughuls in which the Sikh soldiers sided with and loyally served the british imperialists rather than the combined muslim and hindu rebel soldiers. Had they rebelled too and served the indian rebel army them no doubt the british invaders would have been massacred and thrown out of india and yes perhaps they would have had an earlier opportunity to regain their sovereignty and expand their rule into other territories but maybe there could have foreseen other dangers to which why they didn't change the course of history the way it played out?

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2 minutes ago, genie said:

It was good pay, revenge, mistrust and hatred for the arch enemy mughuls in which the Sikh soldiers sided with and loyally served the british imperialists rather than the combined muslim and hindu rebel soldiers. Had they rebelled too and served the indian rebel army them no doubt the british invaders would have been massacred and thrown out of india and yes perhaps they would have had an earlier opportunity to regain their sovereignty and expand their rule into other territories but maybe there could have foreseen other dangers to which why they didn't change the course of history the way it played out?

Problem you have is the Dogras as well as the betrayal by some of those monarchs on the other side of Sutlej river.

By 1857, there was no longer any effective leader.

When it came to a choice between return to Mughal rule and the Brits we Sikhs chose the Brits. 

It was those rebel Hindu and Muslim soldiers that allowed the Brits to get foothold in the first place. 

If Indian Unity was so important, Brits would never been able to get a foothold. 

Context is everything. 

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In the 1857 mutiny, would we want to be known as participants of the Rioting, looting, and mistreatment of british ladies that went on?

Yeah war always has casualties, but like maskeen ji said about 84. It better to be bhola (innocent, victim) then a dhokeddar(cheater, aggressor). 

And in ww1, we or at least i think the indian Congress party did ask for concessions from Britain that helping in ww1, will result in independence. So lots of indians volunteered. 

In ww2, we would have been known as Japanese and Hitler sympathizers if we had pulled out like the faujis who followed Bose I think.

Ofc its dumb to care about labels when it's our independence at risk. But having the narrative of being the good guy helps alot for the future generations. Look at how hard the muslims struggle to explain their religion and terrorists. 

And one of kartar singh sarabhas jobs was to recruit faujis to the gaddar movement. So having faujis is a possible benefit, you just have to wrest control off of them from the enemy.

But to be honest, most Sikhs were probably just trying to make a living and had despaired of sikh independence and rule after the infighting between ranjit singhs heirs and between the diff rajas. To convince them to actually put their future into revolutaries hands was asking a bit much. Esp against the most powerful kingdom. 

It's like now. Most sikhs care abt going to the west. Instead of staying and fighting for panjab. And the sikhs in the west could pool their resources to solve most problems in panjab. And ppl are too tired from the kharkhoo times to take referendum 2020 seriously. And no sikh trusts that we can run a successful country all due t ok nour baises towards gurdwara committees. 

 

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On 1/29/2020 at 4:26 PM, dallysingh101 said:

It's up on sa bro. 

I watched your pind video on SA.  everyone seems happy

dairy seems to be a big thing there. My mums pind has a dairy as well, people make quite a bit of of profit there by selling milk. My mami nxt door runs the whole house by just selling buffalo milk! food, bills etc  it pays for everything!   but like briefly mentioned in the video, people at the dairy be sneeky and mix water into the milf so it goes thinner and give less money in return! so stupid! corruption exists everywhere there! just as something starts people have to mess it up!   my nana used to sell buffalo milf to the pind di dairy as buffalo milf is more heavy than cow milk and worth more. Iv carried buckets of milk with him to the dairy as well lol     and we used to stand there while they do their thing in case they dont mix water into it to thin it down.

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23 hours ago, puzzled said:

I watched your pind video on SA.  everyone seems happy

dairy seems to be a big thing there. My mums pind has a dairy as well, people make quite a bit of of profit there by selling milk. My mami nxt door runs the whole house by just selling buffalo milk! food, bills etc  it pays for everything!   but like briefly mentioned in the video, people at the dairy be sneeky and mix water into the milf so it goes thinner and give less money in return! so stupid! corruption exists everywhere there! just as something starts people have to mess it up!   my nana used to sell buffalo milf to the pind di dairy as buffalo milf is more heavy than cow milk and worth more. Iv carried buckets of milk with him to the dairy as well lol     and we used to stand there while they do their thing in case they dont mix water into it to thin it down.

That's called mil-la-vhut, goes on everywhere. Like putting sawdust in powdered goods. Remember the older lot talking about it when I was a little kid. I heard drug dealers call it 'cutting' i.e. bulking up a product with cheap shyte to increase the weight and profit. 

At my nanakes we used to have a buffalo in an open shed in the front porch. It was VERY aggressive, only nani could control it, with a soti sometimes! lol If I just went near it to look, it would start huffing and puffing and stomping! Guess I was lucky to have the freshest stuff possible. That makhnee they made from the milk was truly divine.   

How does what you saw in the vid compare to your pind? Is it typical? How did it differ? 

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8 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

That's called mil-la-vhut, goes on everywhere. Like putting sawdust in powdered goods. Remember the older lot talking about it when I was a little kid. I heard drug dealers call it 'cutting' i.e. bulking up a product with cheap shyte to increase the weight and profit. 

At my nanakes we used to have a buffalo in an open shed in the front porch. It was VERY aggressive, only nani could control it, with a soti sometimes! lol If I just went near it to look, it would start huffing and puffing and stomping! Guess I was lucky to have the freshest stuff possible. That makhnee they made from the milk was truly divine.   

How does what you saw in the vid compare to your pind? Is it typical? How did it differ? 

yh its similar to my pind,  my nanke pind is a bit different as its mostly a ravidassia pind so there are not that many singhs in my mums pind, in fact iv only seen one proper singh in my mums entire pind!   and its big pind with over 9000 people. 

my dads pind

 

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