Sikh example sentences

Under a number of able leaders in the eighteenth century, the Sikhs organized themselves into a number of bands called jathas, and later on misls.His son Jawahir Shah had 30,000 troops of his own and hired another 20,000 Maratha and 15,000 Sikh troops to figureht the Mughals.It was also decided that instead of recruiting soldiers from Awadh, Bihar, central India and south India, more soldiers would be recruited from among the Gurkhas, Sikhs and Pathans.Besides Muslims, India also had large populations of Sikhs and Christians, as well as many Parsis and Jains.The Sikh territories in the late eighteenth century extended from the Indus to the Jamuna but they were divided under different rulers.As streams of Muslims left Delhi for Pakistan, their place was taken by equally large numbers of Sikh and Hindu refugees from Pakistan.Other groups of people such as the Marathas, Sikhs, Jats, Ahoms and Kayasthas (a caste of scribes and secretaries) also used the opportunities of the age to become politically important.They promoted education among the Sikhs, often combining modern instruction with Sikh teachings.In 1966, the state of Punjab was also divided into Punjab and Haryana, the former for the Punjabi speakers (who were also mostly Sikhs), the latter for the rest (who spoke not Punjabi but versions of Haryanvi or Hindi).It was virtually self-governing and modern historians refer to the early seventeenth century Sikh community as 'a state within the state'.In percentage terms, the population of the Hindus, Jains and Christians has declined marginally since 196 The proportion of Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist population has increased slightly.The Mughal emperor Jahangir looked upon them as a potential threat and he ordered the execution of Guru Arjan in 160 The Sikh movement began to get politicized in the seventeenth century, a development which culminated in the institution of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh in 169 The community of the Sikhs, called the Khalsa Panth, became a political entity.The changing historical situation during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries influenced the development of the Sikh movement.The organisation of the Sikhs into a political community during the seventeenth century (see Chapter 8) helped in regional state-building in the Punjab.Reform organisation of the Sikhs, the first Singh Sahabs were formed at Amritsar in 1873 and at Lahore in 187 The Sabhas sought to rid Sikhism of superstitions, caste distinctions and practices seen by them as non-Sikh.