The Nankana horror
The Nankana horror
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March 04, 2021 00:09 IST
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AAA The Khalsa Advocate, an English weekly of the Sikhs issued from Amritsar, published blood-curdling accounts of the Nankana massacre. “We cannot help saying,” comments our contemporary on the incident, “that the whole affair seems to have been premeditated, fully matured and cut and dried. Deliberate and calculated arrangements for giving such a horrid attack to the Sikhs cannot be the development of one single day or merely spurred by the moment. Nor can this development be the brainwork of one single man. An organised and deliberate conspiracy seems to have been at work not for weeks but for months together.” The Mahant, it would appear, had not disguised part at least of his atrocious intentions. “The strangest and the most distressing part of the whole thing which pinches and galls us the most,” says the Sikh paper, “Is the studied indifference (or shall we say
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After the BJP-led Government of India (GOI) denied Sikh jatha permission to go to Pakistan to attend the centennial event of the Nankana Sahib massacre that took place at Gurdwara Janam Asthan (birthplace of Sikhi’s founder Guru Nanak Sahib) at Nankana Sahib on February 20, 1921, the Sikh leaders ar
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2 The historic jand tree to which innocent men, women and children were tied and burnt by pouring kerosene by mercenaries hired by the mahant of Nankana Sahib.
Mohinder Singh
Sikh shrines have played a vital role in shaping the course of events of the 550-year-old history of the Sikhs and in the development of the Sikh religious tradition. Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, established the twin institutions of sangat and pangat where all could partake of food from the Guru’s kitchen, sitting in one line without any distinction of caste and class. Earlier, these gurdwaras were managed by pious men, who following the advice of Guru Nanak did not look upon offerings as their personal property.