Description: Gurdwara is a white building with many lights and lots of windows. Outside in the front yard there is a tall poll with Sikh symbol. The Gurdwara is surrounded by three acres of land. The interior of the Gurdwara is very elegant. As you enter through the main door‚ you will gaze upon a picture of the The Golden Temple (Gurdwara) in Amritsar‚ India‚ before walking into the main hall. The main hall is big enough to hold up four to five hundred people. Once you enter the main hall you will
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It’s true that my interview subjects with more strict parents were raised in a region with much more Punjabi/Sikh community. But there also seems to be a relationship between level of strictness and gender. It turns out‚ unsurprisingly‚ that Punjabi Sikh parents are more strict with their daughters than they are with their sons. All the females I spoke with seemed to hide a lot more from their parents than the males I spoke with
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1. The 1947 Communal Violence in Lahore. Today‚ I am going to talk about the communal violence that erupted in Lahore on the very creation of Pakistan in 1947. Lahore being the 2nd most populous city of today’s Pakistan‚ is one of the three oldest living cities of the world and had undergone a great deal of violence and forced migration in 1947. 2. Here‚ you can see the map of Indian sub-continent before its partition into Pakistan and India in August 1947. From early 16th century to 1857‚
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Secularism is the principle of separation of government institutions‚ and the persons mandated to represent the State‚ from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. In one sense‚ secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings‚ and the right to freedom from governmental imposition of religion upon the people within a state that is neutral on matters of belief. In another sense‚ it refers to the view that human activities and decisions‚ especially political ones
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can either become a nun or priestesses. In Sikhism‚ women do not attain a certain status within the Sikh culture because to them women are equal to men in the eyes of their God (Pinkham‚ 1967). In this essay I will argue that by having such opposing views towards women in the Hinduism and Sikhism culture‚ it gives a clear understanding of the way in which women are portrayed among Hindu’s and Sikhs; as these two dominant religions have very different conceptions of women as well as their level of
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Research Task – Vaisakhi Vaisakhi is celebrated in the month of April by all Sikh. This is to remember the day when the Khalsa Panth was formed. Guru Gobind Singh chose the festival of Vaisakhi to create a brotherhood for saint soldiers‚ and the brotherhood was named Khalsa Panth. Vaisakhi is celebrated in many different ways; the way Vaisakhi is celebrated varies. In the Gurdwara‚ 2 days before Vaisakhi‚ Akhand Paath begins. This is the nonstop reading of the whole of Guru Granth Sahib in 48
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but instead divided into two‚ struggling‚ newly instituted states of India and Pakistan. At midnight of August 15 of 1947‚ the two governments of India and Pakistan simultaneously declared independence‚ officially trying to separate Muslims from Sikhs. This violent divide between the two governments lead to the displacement of approximately 12.5 million men‚ women‚ and children and a death toll between several hundred thousand to one million. The violent nature of partition created an atmosphere
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Views Overview Article #1: Sikh Professor Attacked in New York In Alleged Hate Crime In New York‚ Professor Singh from Columbia University was brutally beaten by a large group of men simply because they believed that he practiced the same religion Osama bin Laden practiced. But studies showed that these attacks were not due to misperception but because of the continued crimes against the Sikh population ever since the collapse of the Twin Towers. Many of the Sikh population were attacked and
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1984 Golden Temple Massacre In 1984‚ hundreds of Sikh’s were injured‚ Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) was destroyed. Sant Jarnail was the one who stood up for Sikh rights.Indira Gandhi tried destroying Darbar Sahib and for that she got shot. Hundreds of Sikh’s died‚ fighting for their religion. Many people lost their families; people were getting burnt alive.Darbar Sahib was surrounded by soldiers of General Brar and big cannons. The holy book (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) was hit
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY S eparatist movements in India can broadly be divided in to various categories on the basis of various factors like geographical locations of area‚ historical backgrounds‚ ethnicity‚ language & religion‚ etc. The first important movement discussed in the paper is struggle of Kashmiris for their right of self- determination. Infact‚ at the time of independence in 1947‚ the princely states were given the option to either join India or Pakistan on the basis of two guiding
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