Sardar Sir AttarSingh, Raiss (Jagirdar) of Bhadaur estate (1833-1896) was a Sikh nobleman and polymath renowned for his literary skills. One of the first English-literate Sikhs, he was also proficient in Punjabi, Farsi, Sanskrit and Urdu.

After taking charge of his family estates in 1858, Attar Singh set up a library and a school at Bhadaur. He translated many Sikh liturgical texts into English for the first time and set up the Sri Guru Singh Sabha of Ludhiana in 1884.
He received many titles during the course of his life such as Faiz ul Fuzala (meaning “excelling the excellent learned men”) in 1877, and Companion of the Indian Empire in 1880.

“I say this with the greatest concern that even in this place (London) our Hindustanis do not stay within their limits and never forget to display their crude sordidness. This is especially shocking to those Punjabi Sikhs who against grave odds managed to salvage the honour of the Hindustani womenfolk from the Pathan invaders by spilling their own blood.


Now the progeny of those who owed their lives to us constantly presses the Sikhs in Britain to relinquish their unique identity and considers it their dharam to get as many Sikhs to shave their long hair off as they can. This is considered an essential mission by the Arya-Samajis.

Following the anti-Sikh pogroms of November 1984, the KCF decided to avenge the massacres by establishing bases and modules inside Delhi to eliminate Indian National Congress politicians Arjun Dass and Lalit Maken, who survivors had recounted leading mobs which burned Sikh houses and Gurdwara, killing and burning the corpses of Sikhs in their path.
The list of names was procured by accident when one disguised militant came across the pamphlet “Who Are The Guilty?” in a bookshop.

(Excerpts from “Assi Attwadi Nahin”, interview transcripts of Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha, edited by Baljit Singh Khalsa, published by Khalsa Literature House)




Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha, disguised themselves as affluent Punjabi Hindu contractors and managed to rent an apartment owned by a Punjabi Hindu family. As the months flew by, they got very close to them and the house-lady often invited them to have dinner.
According to Jinda, some family elders would exchange anti-Sikh slurs and justify the pogroms in casual conversation in their presence, while never realising that actual militants were sitting on the same table with them.

Ranaut repeats a misled view held by many Indians that the June 1984 attack on Amritsar and subsequent nationwide pogroms in November utterly crushed all Sikh separatist resistance.
Ignoring the threatening genocidal tone of her tweet, she should be inclined to remember that the Sikh movement prospered for at least 10 more years after 1984.

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The events of 1984 served as a catalyst for a statewide call-to-arms of Sikh youth. The ensuing chaos was described by Julio Ribeiro, then DGP of Punjab, as a “full-blown low intensity war.” Ribeiro himself survived two assassination attempts, one in 1986, in Punjab and the other in 1991, during his tenure as Ambassador to Romania, which is quite mind blowing as militants chased him all the way across the world.
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