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With this the Sikhs began to make a disproportionate number within the Indian army which was successfully used throughout World Wars 1 and 2. Many Sikhs gained some of the highest military honours including the Victoria Cross and were held in high regard. One notable incident was the Battle of Saragarhi where 21 Sikhs defended a fort from the onslaught of thousands of Afghans. Despite the overwhelming odds the Sikhs held out for an extraordinary time and slew hundred of Afghans, injuring many more thousands. Eventually the Afghans decided to burn the fort in order to kill the last few defiant Sikhs.

 

 

After the wars had ended and many acts of bravery the Sikhs returned to India under the same state of oppression as before. And so the Sikhs began to make peaceful demonstrations against the British Empire which they had so loyally served. In one such demonstration, the British Empire under a Brigadier-General Dyer ordered the butchering of many unarmed civilians in what is now known as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which took place in a public square in Amritsar, Punjab, the center of Sikhism.

 

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