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Encyclopedia Articles on: sikhs

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    Sikhism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...worldwide some 19 million. Some 300,000 Sikhs live in Britain, and there are smaller...hair or beard. By the late 18th cent. the Sikhs had conquered most of the Punjab and established...subcontinent divided their homeland. Militant Sikhs and Hindu Jats fought the Muslims of Punjab...
     
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    Sikh Wars
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...victories and then decisively defeated the Sikhs at Aliwal (Jan. 28, 1846) and Sobraon...the Treaty of Lahore (Mar., 1846), the Sikhs were forced to cede Kashmir and to pay...but the British completely routed the Sikhs at Gujrat (Feb. 21). The Sikhs surrendered...
     
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    Ranjit Singh
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    RANJIT SINGH run jit sing, 1780 1839, Indian maharaja, ruler of the Sikhs. Seizing Lahore (1799) and Amritsar (1809), he established himself as the leading Sikh chieftain. In 1809 he made a treaty with...
     
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    Guru
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...gives initiation into spiritual practice and instructs disciples, often maintaining a close relationship with them. Among the Sikhs (see Sikhism ) the title guru was given to the 10 leaders of the community from Nanak (c.1469 c.1539), founder of Sikhism...
     
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    Dost Muhammad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...struggled to get the emirate for years before he finally succeeded in establishing himself in 1826. He waged continual war with the Sikhs, and trouble with the British, beginning in 1838, led to the first (1839 42) of the Afghan Wars. Defeated, he fled to India...
     

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