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As a Sik h raised in the United States, Mandeep S. Dhillon has been involved in a broad range of activities both inside and outside the Sikh community. His current project, The Sikh Next Door, is the first integrated multimedia curriculum program that has been designed specifically for American schools. |
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 Bob Dhillon has made mega bucks in real estate business. AT 21, he was probably Canada’s youngest Indian-Canadian millionaire. At 41, he is close to becoming Canada’s first Sikh billionaire.
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ISLAMABAD: One person stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned out cadets that graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's first Sikh army officer Harcharan Singh. |
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 Councillor Makhan Singh was elected as Graveshams first citizen on May 23, 1997 with his wife Surinder as Mayoress by his side.
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 Sikh-Canadian Kashmir Singh Heed has become the Canada's first Sikh to become police chief of West Vancouver, British Columbia ("B.C.") with effect from August 2, 2007.
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 Maharaja Duleep Singh |
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At the close of the First Sikh War in 1846 it was decided to conciliate the men of the defeated Khalsa Army and to enlist Sikhs in the Honourable East India Company's service. In April orders were issued to raise a Sikh irregular battalion, the Regiment of Ferozepore, for service with the Bengal Army of the East India Company.
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The First Sikh War started in 1845 and ended in 1846. Another followed between 1848 and 1849.The origins may be found in 1839 when the Sikh leader Ranjit Singh died. He'd tried to form a kingdom, or a state, for the Sikhs from the Punjab where his people came from. He took over Kashmir (the capital), Peshawar and Multan. His death ignited jealousies, power struggles and palace coups. |
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 TORONTO: Raminder Gill, who created history in Ontario by becoming the first South Asian member of the provincial parliament (MPP) in 1999, has become the first Indo-Canadian to be appointed citizenship judge in the province. |
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 LAHORE — Dr Gulab Singh Shaheen — the first Sikh to be recruited as traffic warden in the City Traffic Police — says he is proud to be a Pakistani and is ready to sacrifice even his life for it.Gulab hails from Nankana Sahib and has settled on Bedian Road near Defence.
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Raja G.S. Rathour recently became the first Sikh to graduate – and as valedictorian, what’s more – to become the first New York corrections officer from the community.
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