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The Saint-Soldier: Documentary on Bhai Maharaj Singh of Bhai Daya Singh Sampardaya (first Sikh in Singapore albeit as a captive of the british)


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18 hours ago, chatanga1 said:

Nice share Dal, will definitely be watching this.

This is one of the best things I've seen in a while. Really emotive too.  

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Contemporary account of Baba Bir Singh ji's shaheedi (from Honigberger's work). Note how the pandit put out false claims that Baba Bir Singh ji was supporting the british attempt at subjugating Panjab. Note also that he is referred to as the 'high priest of the Sikhs':

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20 hours ago, paapiman said:

They are not naked bro. 

Udhasi Sadhus are suppose to wear a Langot or Kacha.

 

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Bhul chuk maaf

I mean almost naked, as in mostly unclothed, which in casual punjabi can be nanga as well. Although there are some non udasi sadhus who are fully naked.

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On 1/24/2023 at 10:26 PM, dalsingh101 said:

This book looks interesting. Apparently it covers Bhai Maharaj SIngh Ji and his companion Khurakh Singh:

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About the Book

Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Convicts-Colonial-Southeast-California/dp/0520294564/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HBP1WTF8ZVJ4&keywords=empire+of+convicts&qid=1674598898&sprefix=empire+of+convicts%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

Interview with author - I haven't heard it yet:

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/on-bhai-maharaj-singh-and-kharak-singh-with/id1533329730?i=1000536892876

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