Half knowledge is too dangerous. And let's not forget the Marathas who liberated Sikhs from Muslim yoke. Had Raghunatha Rao not attacked Abdali and had the Marathas not mauled Afghans beyond redemption at Panipat, there wouldn't have been a Sikh Empire.
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And what did the Sikhs do in return? They stayed aloof in Panipat. That, after Raghunatha Rao diverted his troops to Punjab from Rohillakhand because Abdali desecrated Harmandir Sahib. Now, let's see what the Sikhs did. Tegh Bahadur was a Mughal commander.
At least till the time of Arjan Dev, Sikhs were formally treated as Hindus. So, when did they become separate from Hindus? Anyways. Let's not forget how Tegh Bahadur's daughter-in-law betrayed Banda Bahadur -
was that because he refused to become a Sikh or was that because she was jealous of his success or was that because she eyed the treasures under his control? And more importantly, let's not forget the Udasis who gave the intellectual firepower to Sikhism and
after whose violent ejection as guardians of the religion, Sikhism became a just another Hindu hating pseudo-Abrahamic monotheist cult. Sorry to be crude, Khalistan movement was not an aberration. It's a natural progression.
The only achievements Sikhs bleat about - Tegh Bahadur who was actually a Hindu who died for Hindus and saving Hindu women which happened because they refused to fight for their benefactors at Panipat. And it's a matter of shame, not pride.
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Just wow!! When the Khalsa Empire collapsed, it's the Udasis who held fort for Sikhism, not the Khalsa - the same Khalsa which decided to capture the religion again a few decades later. 
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