Contribution of Sikhs in Indian Independence

Tomorrow, on 15^th August 2010 we Indians are going to celebrate our 64^th INDIPENDENCE DAY.

GREETINGS TO EVERY ONE ON THIS OCCASION.

India got Independence on 15^th August 1947 from the British Rulers.

Sikhs at that time were 1.8% of the total Indian population. But we contributes more than 75% towards it’s Independence Struggle

Please have a look at the following statistics which itself reveals the TRUTH.

S.Number	Event	Total	Sikhs	Others	%age of SIKHS
1	Hanged	121	93	28	76.85 %
2	Life Imprisonment	2,646	2,147	499	81.14%
3	Massacred in Jallianwala Bagh,Punjab	1,326	793	533	59.80%
4	Martyrs of BAJ-BAJ Ghat	113	67	46	59.29%
5	Martyrs of KUKA Movement	91	91	0	100%
6	Martyrs of AKALI Movement	500	500	0	100%
	TOTAL	4,797	3,691	1,106	76.94%

This is all due to the Preaching’s of OUR GREAT GURUs.

During 1469 AD to 1708AD our great GURUs fought for Social,Economical,Reliogious Independence of INDIA against the then MUGHAL RULERS.

PAHELA MARAN KABOOL,JEEWAN KI CHAD AAS

HO SAGAN KE RAINN KA TO AAOO HAMARE PAAS…….Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Founder of Sikhism)

SURA SO PAHCHAANEYE JO LARE DEEN KE HET,

PURJA PURJA KAT MARE KABHU NA CHHADE KHET………..Guru Gobind Singh Ji (The 10^th Master/Guru Nanak)

Shaheed Udham Singh Ji

On 31 July 1940, Udham Singh was hanged in Pentonville Prison in London. Udham Singh was an Indian independence activist, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.

In 1940, almost 21 years after the Amritsar Massacre of 1919 in Punjab province of India, Udham Singh shot the unsuspecting 76 years old Michael O'Dwyer while he was attending a lecture meet at Caxton Hall in London. O'Dwyer had been Governor of the Punjab in 1919, when Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered British troops to fire on unarmed Indian protesters, who included many Sikhs.

Udham Singh was also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism.