Guru Angad Dev ji (1539-1552) Guru Angad invented the present form of the Gurmukhi script. It became the medium of writing the Punjabi language in which the hymns of the Gurus are expressed This step had a far-reaching purpose and impact.
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Sri Guru Amardas ji (1552-1574) Sri Guru Amar Das, though born in 1479, became the Guru in 1552 when he was in his seventies. Guru Amardas ji were born as Bhalla Khatri at village Basarke about 13 kms south-west of Amritsar. His father was Tej Bhan Bhalla,, a local petty trader. They were all staunch sanatanists, and vegetarians. Guru Amar das had a wife, two sons and two daughters.
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HARNAM KAUR, BIBI (1862-1902) Bibi Harnam Kaur ji were a pioneer in the field of women's education, was born on 10 April 1882 in a Siddhu Jatt family of Chand Purana, a village in Firozpur district of the Punjab.
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Kaur Singh Chakkar (1892-1954 A.D.) In 1947, Punjab was divided among India and Pakistan due to religious fanaticism spearheaded by a shrewd lawyer named Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah had created a party called Muslim League which was full of semi-literate bigoted Muslim youth. To make sure that British award them a new state of Pakistan they started attacking Hindus and Sikhs all over Punjab and Bengal.
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Baba Gurdit Singh Kamagata Maru He was born in 1860 at Sarhali, district Amritsar of the Punjab. His grandfather, Rattan Singh was a high-ranking military officer in the Khalsa Army and had fought against the British during the Anglo-Sikh Wars and he declined the British offer of a jagir after the annexation of the Punjab. Later on, His father Hukam Singh went to Malaya where he settled down as a contractor.
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Kartar Singh Sarabha(1896 - 1915) Kartar Singh Sarabha, a Ghadr revolutionary was born in 1886 in the village of Sarabha, in Ludhiana district of the Punjab in the house of Mangal Singh, a well-to-do farmer (Jutt). After receiving his primary education in his own village, Kartar Singh entered the Malwa Khalsa High school at Ludhiana for his matriculation. He was in tenth class when he went to live with his uncle in Orissa where, after finishing high school, he joined college
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Ghadriite Harnam Singh Tundilat (1882-1962) HARNAM SINGH TUNDILAT (1882-192), a Ghadr revolutionary was born, 11 March 1882, the son of Gurdit Singh, a farmer of modest means, of Kotla Naudh Singh, in Hoshiarpur district of the Punjab. He learnt to read Gurmukhi in the village Dharamsala and joined the Indian army as he grew up. On 12 July 1906, he emigrated to Canada and then to California in the United States of America in December 1909.
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Sikh Immigrants Sikhs started immigrating to the United States in 1897. Some Sikhs came straight from India, while others came from the far east, where they had immigrated decades ago. There were thousands of Sikhs living in California and the other western states by the end of the first decade of the 20th century.
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Singh Sabha Moment of 1873 Kanwar Dalip Singh, born on 1838 was the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In 1849 Maharaja Dalip Singh was crowned the next king of the Sikh kingdom which was practically already under British rule. Lord Dalhouzi and Maharaja Daleep Singh had a meeting at Lahore in Dec. 1849. In 1850 Kanwar Dalip Singh was put to house arrest, shifted to Fatehgarh in UP. All attempts were made to isolate him from Punjab and from Sikhs, was kept always in the company of high class Christian society. In 1853 he was converted to a Christian and was then sent to England in 1854.
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The Life of Guru Nanak Guru Nanak (20 October 1469 - 7 May 1539) is the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. He was born in the village of Talwandi, now called Nankana Sahib, near Lahore in present-day Pakistan.
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