Lumbi Race Ke Ghodey!

'Lumbi Race ke Ghodey!'

Tale of Two Unsung Heroes!
Breaking News!

Washington, October 8,2016

"Meeting a long-pending demand of the Sikh community, the US has allowed career-long religious accommodation for them to serve in the armed forces while maintaining their articles of faith like the turban and beard."

First Turbaned Sikh in US Army in 2016
The above Breaking News compelled me to put the things in the right perspective as this news is devoid of Fact or Force.
Here is the story of two Real 'Bharat Rattans' , who gave the 'Aahuti' of their youth for Social Justice and single handedly, taught Indians what  Secularism ,Nationalism and Crusade means.
This is not the First Time US has done this !Thank God America's Racialism and Ingratitude has ended! The Earlier US policy was that They did not Recognize them as Sikhs ,Called them Hindoo .On July 22, 1918, Bhagat Singh Thind ,termed as Turbaned Hindoo was recruited by the US Army to fight in World War I and it took them  100 years to know the Articles of Sikh faith! Even Britishers did not recruit the Kambojs and communities other than Jat Sikhs in the Army  and other communities had to declare them Jats to get recruited in the Army.

Dr,. Bhagat singh Thind

The White House celebrating 100th Anniversary of Pioneer Bhagat Singh Thind's Arrival in US in July 2013

Bhagat Singh Thind in US Army Uniform

Bhagat Singh Thind with his battalion at Camp Lewis, Washington on November 18, 1918.

Major Contributions of Dr Bhagat Singh Thind :

• Fight for US citizenship as a first non white and win against US Govt, in the case titled United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind in Sureme Court.(During his 21 year's legal battle loosing Twice in Supreme Court and once in High Court )
• First Turbaned Sikh in US Army and win right to wear turban as a Singh in US Army.
• Indian Independence Activist and Main Leader of Ghader Movement; General Secretary of Ghadar Party from 1916-1917,
• ikh Spiritual Writer and Scientist

Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind   (Oct.3,1892- Sept.15,1967
Thind came to the US from Amritsar for higher education in July 1913 and later went on to become the first turbaned Sikh to serve in US armed forces.
Born on October 3, 1892, in the village of Taragarh Talawan of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India .Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind was born in well-known military Kamboj Sikh Thind family of village Taragarh/Talawan in the District Amritsar. His father, S. Boota Singh Thind, retired as Subedar Major from the British Indian Army. His mother, Isser Kaur died when he was a child
On July 22, 1918, Bhagat Singh was recruited by the US Army to fight in World War I. A few months later, on November 8, 1918, Bhagat Singh, was promoted to the rank of an Acting Sergeant. He received an honorable discharge on December 16, 1918, with his character designated as "excellent"
U.S. citizenship conferred many rights and privileges but only "free white men" were eligible to apply. In the United States, many anthropologists used Caucasian as a general term for "white".Thind applied for citizenship from the state of Washington^, and received his citizenship certificate on December 9, 1918, wearing military uniform as he was still serving in the U.S. army. However, the Immigration and Naturalization Service did not agree with the district court granting the citizenship appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which sent Thind's case to the Supreme Court for ruling. Thind fought his case in the Supreme Court but his citizenship was revoked in four days, on December 13, 1918, on the grounds that he was not a White but a Hindoo. (Indians in the United States and Canada were commonly called "Hindoos" irrespective of their faith. Thind's nationality was also referred to as "Hindoo" in all legal documents and the media although he was a Sikh by faith^..
Thind applied for citizenship again from the neighboring state, Oregon, on May 6, 1919. The same Immigration and Naturalization Service official who got Thind’s citizenship revoked first time, tried to convince the judge to refuse citizenship Thind. He even brought up the issue of Thind's involvement in the Gadar Party, members of which campaigned actively for the independence of India from the British Empire. Judge Wolverton, believing Thind, observed, "He (Thind) stoutly denies that he was in any way connected with the alleged propaganda of the Gadar Press to violate the neutrality laws of this country, or that he was in sympathy with such a course. He frankly admits, nevertheless, that he is an advocate of the principle of India for the Indians, and would like to see India rid of British rule, but not that he favors an armed revolution for the accomplishment of this purpose. The judge took all arguments and Thind’s military record into consideration and declined to agree with the INS. Thus, Thind received US citizenship for the second time on November 18, 1920
The Immigration and Naturalization Service appealed against the judge’s decision to the next higher court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which sent the case to the U.S. Supreme Court taking plea that he was not “Caucasian enough’’ (White in General-of European origin) to be eligible for it
In 1923, a crucial Supreme Court case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind was decided in favor of the United States, Thind argued that Indo-Aryan languages are indigenous to the Aryan part of India in the same way that Aryan languages are indigenous to Europe.Thind argued that he was a white person by arguing that he was a member of the Caucasian race using "a number of anthropological texts" that people in Punjab and other Northwestern Indian states belonged to the "Aryan race", and Thind cited scientific authorities such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach as classifying Aryans as belonging to the Caucasian race. Thind's lawyers argued that Thind had a revulsion to marrying an Indian woman of the "lower races" when they said, "The high-caste Hindu regards the aboriginal Indian Mongoloid in the same manner as the American regards the Negro, speaking from a matrimonial standpoint." Thind's lawyers argued that Thind had a revulsion to marrying a woman of the Mongoloid race, because they felt that expressing "disdain for inferiors" would characterize Thind as being white.
George Sutherland said that authorities on the subject of race were in disagreement over which people were included in the scientific definition of the Caucasian race, so Sutherland instead chose to rely on the common understanding of race rather than the scientific understanding of race. Sutherland found that, while Thind may claim to have "purity of Aryan blood" due to being "born in Village Taragarh Talawa near Jandiala Guru, Amritsar, Punjab" and having "high caste" status, he was not Caucasian in the "common understanding", so he could not be included in the "statutory category as white persons"
Thind petitioned for naturalization a third time in 1935 after Congress passed the Nye-Lea Act, which made World War I veterans eligible for naturalization regardless of race, and based on his status as a veteran of the United States military during World War I he was finally granted United States citizenship nearly two decades after he first petitioned for naturalization.
As public support for Asian Indians grew throughout World War I, and as India's independence came closer to reality, Indians argued for an end to their legislative discrimination. Hurdling over many members of Congress and the American Federation of Labor, which vehemently opposed removing legislative measures barricading Indian immigration and naturalization, the Asian Indian community finally succeeded in gaining support among several prominent congressmen, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Thind received his U.S. citizenship through the state of New York in 1936, taking the oath for the third time to become an American citizen.
Thind, who had earned a Ph.D, became a writer and was respected as a spiritual guide. He published books. The list of his books includes Radiant Road to Reality, Science of Union with God, The Pearl of Greatest Price, House of Happiness, Jesus, The Christ: In the Light of Spiritual Science (Vol. I, II, III), The Enlightened Life, Tested Universal Science of Individual Meditation in Sikh Religion, Divine Wisdom in three volumes

Thind was working on some books when he died on September 15, 1967. He was outlived by his wife, Vivian, who he had married in March 1940 and his daughter Tara and his son David. who posthumously published two of his father's books: Troubled Mind in a Torturing World and their Conquest and Winners and Whiners in this Whirling World.

It's a pity a Person who fought for 21 years for justice to Non whites, and whose own enemy against whom he fought legal battle,the  America, Celebrates his 100 th anniversary in the White house, is not even known in his own Country.

 
Joint Thind's Family in Village Taragarh
Dr. Thind's ancestors had earlier served in the Sikh army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and even before that, in the 'Marjeewra' Sikh 'fauj' of Guru Gobind Singh.

(The writer's mother-in law,Smt. Swaran Kaur Thind,was born and brought up in Village Taragarh ,District Amritsar,Punjab ( Village of Dr.Bhagat Singh Thind) Dr. Bhagat Singh had named his Daughter as Tara after his villageThe entire village of Kamboj community,Migrated from Kamboja Kingdom, located between Kashmir and Afghanistan,During Mahabharat and Ashoka Period.)

Udham Singh

Shaheed Udham Singh  (December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940) was born as Sher Singh; he belonged to Jammu clan of Kamboj lineage. He was a Sikh, a Punjabi Marxist and a nationalist mostly known for assassinating Sir Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avengement of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.A ,then 9 year old ,orphan boy who served water to the crowd,Vowed  to avenge the massacre he had seen with his own eyes
During trial he gave  name as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, , and made it loud and clear to the Britishers that Indians could no longer be divided on caste and religious lines Have you ever heard of  such a name of any   Indian or Nationalist of caliber of Udham Singh?, an orphan boy,who nursed the grudge of Jallainwala  Bagh massacre for 21 years  and  took revenge from Britisher's in their own backyard,nay, Assembly? 

.When Scotland Yard released the files on his trial they revealed his reaction when the judge gave the verdict: he spat and swore ‘against the King and Emperor’ and declared that he wasn’t afraid of death and that when he had gone ‘thousands of [my] countrymen would drive you dirty dogs out of my country’.

"I did it because I had a grudge against him. He deserved it. He was the real culprit. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I have crushed him. For full 21 years, I have been trying to wreak vengeance. I am happy that I have done the job. I am not scared of death. I am dying for my country. I have seen my people starving in India under the British rule. I have protested against this, it was my duty. What a greater honour could be bestowed on me than death for the sake of my motherland?"

Many Indians regarded Singh's action as justified and an important step in India's struggle to end British colonial rule.

In press statements, Mahatma Gandhi condemned the 10 Caxton Hall shooting saying, "the outrage has caused me deep pain. I regard it as an act of insanity...I hope this will not be allowed to affect political judgement."The Hindustan Socialist Republican Army condemned Mahatma Gandhi's statement, considering it to be a challenge to the ^{Indian Youth}

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The National Herald, "[The] assassination is regretted but it is earnestly hoped that it will not have far-reaching repercussions on [the] political future of India." In its 18 March 1940 issue, Amrita Bazar Patrika wrote, "O'Dwyer's name is connected with Punjab incidents which India will never forget".
The Punjab section of Congress in the Punjab Assembly led by Dewan Chaman Lal refused to vote for the Premier's motion to condemn the assassination.
In April 1940, at the Annual Session of the All India Congress Committee held in commemoration of 21st anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, the youth wing of the Indian National Congress Party displayed revolutionary slogans in support of Singh, applauding his action as patriotic and heroic.
Singh had some support from the international press. The Times of London called him a "fighter for freedom", his actions "an expression of the pent-up fury of the downtrodden Indian people." Bergeret from Rome praised Singh's action as courageous. In March 1940, Indian National Congress leader Jawahar Lal Nehru, condemned the action of Singh as senseless. In 1962, Nehru reversed his stance and applauded Singh with the following published statement: "I salute Shaheed-i-Azam Udham Singh with reverence who had kissed the noose so that we may be free."
Indian Government's own secret reports abundantly reveal that the murder of O'Dwyer had proved a catalyst to ignite and excite great satisfaction among the people of India
Most of the press worldwide remembered the story of Jallianwala Bagh and held Sir Michael O'Dwyer fully responsible for the events. Singh was called "fighter for freedom.Berliner Borsen Zeitung called the event "The torch of the Indian freedom", and German radio repeatedly broadcast: "The cry of tormented people spoke with shots". and "Like the elephants, the Indians never forgive their enemies. They strike them down even after 21 years"
Udham singh hand cuffed taken out of Caxton hall London

It is the height of ingratitude,that a supreme sacrifice by a Nationalists,appreciated by Indian Public and outside World&enemy itself is depreciated by Indian Politicians.

Searched,Compiled,Illustrated by Tejinder Kamboj