They say that these Nihangs are the direct desendents of the 10th Guru's Army.
They made a large part of Ranjit Singh's Army, and highly opposed the British. The British literraly did a genocide on them, traced down the Gatka Masters, to point where only less than 20 Gatka Masters were left alive. Nihangs still survived this, doing gureilla warfare where ever possible.
Today the Nihangs still number in the tens of thousands.
One thing, these ****ers are always high on weed, something they do before they fight.
They are some serious nomads, noone questions them to where they go, everyone gives them food. They current objective is to guard Sikh Shrines.
This message has been edited by ShadowMast01 on Nov 11, 2005 11:10 PM
They don't practice Gatka. The mainstream Sikhs believe lies. These guys will tell you that they practice Shastar Vidyia. Gatka is for show, with little combat effectivness compared to the original Shastar Vidyia. Its mentioned in the Granth Sahib.
Actually, i always thought it was known as Akarra style and Gatka was just a form of it. And true form of this is only taught to Sikhs, only a defensive form is taught to others.
bro www.shastarvidiya.org
most of this is BS, now i aint no SGPC supporter nor do i believe in the Akali Taksal, i am straight up hard-core believer of Damdami Taksal sadly government people have inflirated deep into it, but it still holds true to Sikhi and practices how it was practiced from the start.
Nihang believe heavily in the Dasam Granth, the martial form being called Shashtar Vidya is probably corrent, and that is probably one form of it, their probably have different names for different styles.
That site, and these people take the Dasam Granth way to literally and foolhardy...just like RSS and groups like it.
The Dasam Granth was always meant to make one ready for battle, and Adi Granth for our spiritual and overall guide and whenever the the Granths contradict, there are 4 Granths, the Adi Granth is what is followed, since that is who the Guru is. The other 3 granth are not even supposed to be followed.
This message has been edited by ShadowMast01 on Nov 12, 2005 10:46 AM This message has been edited by ShadowMast01 on Nov 12, 2005 10:44 AM
true, due to the expanisionist nature of Gulab Singh he tended to get himself involved in situations which he could not handle, and this is where the Khalsa Army itself had to go and not only suffered heavily but lost a lot of credibility.
You hear the pastuns used to say.
"Toba, toba-, Khuda Khud, Khalsa Shud" (God forbid, but it appears, God himself has turned a Khalsa)
But can you tell me the battle where we fought the Dards, i know the Gulab Singh did, but with his Dogras, and from what i have read only in Tibet we went for the aid of Gulab Singh.
And Darada these Nihangs, carry guns as well, sword-play is not their only form. You give them couple of modern weapons and you got yourself a hell of a gurilla force.
This message has been edited by ShadowMast01 on Nov 13, 2005 1:29 AM
During Ranjit Singhs reign Sikhs under the command of Gulab Singh were sent to take Gilgit, and they were initially successful. The Sikh governor was Nathu Shah (not sure if he was a Sikh or a Muslim).
Later when the Dogras established Kashmir State and occupied Gilgit town, the majority of their garrison was made up of Sikh rather than Dogra soldiers (this later changed with the Sikhs being replaced by more Dogras and Gurkhas). Sulaiman Shah, Gohar Aman and Aman-ul-Mulk were the main Dardic rulers who confronted both the Sikhs and Dogras.
At the battle of Bhup Singh Parri, Gohar Aman led a confederation of Dards from Yasin, Puniyal, Gilgit, Hunza and Chitral and annihilated the Dogra/Sikh force. Im not sure if Bhup Singh was a Sikh or a Hindu.
Im still not sure how Nahaang came to be a word for monster though. It must have been used to scare children, like how the Pashtuns used to say Chup Sha, Hari Singh Raghle! (Be silent or else Hari Singh will come.)
"Who are the rulers of the lands beyond Guraiz and Burzil? The Darada Rajas."
The Rajatarangini
This message has been edited by Darada_Raja on Nov 13, 2005 6:57 AM
This is quite interesting. But I can see why the Nihangs were called monsters. Their dress is very intimitating IMO. I can see why Sikhs were given the term Singh.
Baba Santha Singh, the Nihang spiritual leader, is surrounded by his bodyguards at all times. The Nihangs – from the Persian for crocodile - are divided into two armies (Dal), the Buddha Dal (army of the wise, the old) and the Tarna Dal (young army).
