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Do you need help?
Are your in-laws bullying you or torturing you for not bringing enough dowry?
Are they stopping you to see your family members?
Are they abusing you mentally, physically or emotionally?
if yes, then you are at right website. Tell me, I will help you. Help doesn’t mean just inform the police, hopefully I will help you in way that won’t spoil your relationship with your in-laws or won’t cause any harm to your parents respect.
Thousands of our sisters and daughters are living under constant threat of their in-laws. This is not uncommon even in UK, Canada and other countries. Doesn’t matter where are we living, some of our people are still very uncivilized. They are still killing their (noohan) daughter in laws for not bringing enough dowry or not giving them grandson.
Wake up and try to fight for your right and for your self. There is lot of help available from police, help centres and from me.
Help line numbers you must try.
In UK;
Freephone 24 hr National domestic violence helpline
PHONE: 0808 2000 247
In Canada;
416-924-1491
Website: Interval House
In USA;
1-800-799-7233
1-800-787-3224
Questions & Answers for Immigrant and Refugee Women Dealing with Domestic Violence in USA.
Some examples with fake names;
Mrs Sandu came to UK 2 years ago, she phoned her parents in India only twice! because her mother in law is such a bitch! She is well educated girl of good family. Unfortunately now she gave birth to a little cute girl. She was beaten by her mother in law many times. Her husband is so nikama, na mard sala can’t help his wife. He is scared of his mum. (probably still breast feeding)
Mrs Singh came to Canada 7 years ago. She is living with her husband and two children in their own house. She is also contributing the mortgage. She works at night time in a factory and look after the kids at day time. She was the only girl of her parents. She brought so much dowry in her wedding. Recently she sponsored her parents to Canada. When her parents were on the way to Canada, her in-laws refused to accept them in their house. They had a big fight that day. Her husband said he can’t tolerate her parents in his house. She didn’t say a single word. She requested one of her friend if her parents can stay in her friends house. Luckily her friend agreed. Latter on she told the police. Her husband was arrested next day of her parents arrival.
Poor Kiran got married to one canadian guy. Her parents gave lots of dowry to that Canadian bastered. She become pregnant soon. Its been six years, her husband never phoned her and never sent any sponsorship letter. Her dad died with heart attack. Now she got married again. Her husband is still alive and living with another wife happily in Canada. No one helped her.
Please let me know if I can help in any way. Click here to contact me.
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Many of early migrants, who came to Coventry, came in search of employment opportunities. World War II had left Coventry in need of massive reconstruction and the 1950s and 60s was a period of dramatic change. While there were some South Asians living in Coventry prior to World War II, the majority came afterwards, especially during the fifties. They were usually young men, some single and some married with families to support back home. Many of the men interviewed for this project, came here initially for 3-5 years to earn some money but ultimately return back home. But as time went by, they remained and families joined them at a later stage. A large number of them worked in the foundries, such as Sterling Metals, Dunlop, Dunns, and Alfred Herberts, a minority who were better qualified managed to get “cleaner” jobs.
The men, who worked in the foundries, recollect stories of long hours with low wages, often taking on jobs, which no one else wanted to do. These were low-skilled jobs and required basic understanding of the English language. Organisations like the Indian Workers Association, established in Coventry in 1938, were able to assist the Indian workers. They provided colleagues who were proficient in English and were familiar with the system in this country to overcome any problems they encountered.
There is a picture of two men in a pub which apart from being a great picture also illustrates how these men spent some of their spare time. Quickly getting familiar with the English pubs.
The following are some of the experiences of the early South Asian migrants working in the Coventry in the 1950s and 1960s:
Source: Coming to Coventry
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Maharajah Duleep Singh, the Maharajah of Lahore and King of the Sikh Empire, was born on the 6th September 1838. The son of the legendary Lion of the Punjab - Maharajah Ranjit Singh, and the Messalina of the Punjab - Maharani Jind Kaur, the young Duleep Singh came to the throne of Punjab in 1843 succeeding his half brother Maharajah Sher Singh. After the close of the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the subsequent annexation of the Punjab in 1849, he was deposed at the age of 11 by the East India Company, separated from his mother and sent to England. Maharajah Duleep Singh’s a arrival to the shores of England in 1854 threw him into a different limelight. Her Majesty Queen Victoria showered affection upon the turbaned Maharajah, as did the Prince Consort.
The unlikely of alliances saw the start of a relationship of love and loyalty. The Maharajah was looked upon as an adopted son of Her Majesty, encouraged to mingle with the household, play with the younger Princes and holiday with them at Osborne House. His princely appearance and native ways were a sheer joy for the Royal Family. This being evident in the delightful photograph taken by Prince Albert of his children, little Prince Alfred, later the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha and Prince Arthur, later the Duke of Connaught dressed in the Maharajah’s turbans and Indian dress complete with rows of pearls. Even Her Majesty attempted her art skills by drawing sketches and watercolours of the handsome Sikh king in her sketchpad.
The Maharajah’s fondness of the weak Prince Leopold was touching, whilst his friendship with the Prince of Wales remained until the end. The committed Queen and Prince Consort became the godparents to the Maharajah’s eldest son Prince Victor, who the Maharajah named after his most gracious sovereign. Invited to almost every Royal gathering and wedding of his day, the Maharajah’s presence added a zest to every occasion. The big-spending Maharajah had all the ingredients of a Victorian Prince, besides being a serial playboy, he was an avid shooting squire who knew how to throw a party. His fondness of the highlife was a contributor to his demise if the injustice of the British establishment was not entirely to blame. Their inability to keep their promises drove the Maharajah to foreign meddlers, but his allegiance to other European superpowers proved less successful The Maharajah had six children from his first wife Maharani Bamba, namely, Princes Victor, Frederick, and Albert Edward Duleep Singh, and Princesses Bamba, Catherine and Sophia Duleep Singh.
The children led their very own and sometimes personal lives. There was Frederick the archaeologist, antiquarian and generous benefactor to East Anglia and resident of Blo Norton Hall, Victor the debt ridden possessive gambler and bankrupt married to Lady Anne Coventry, Sophia the fanatical Suffragette, Catherine the secretive and notorious visitor to war torn Germany and holder of a mysterious Swiss bank account, whose relations with her governess were more than intimate, and Bamba, the self styled grumpy Queen of Lahore who outlived everyone, living in her own imaginary Royal court. From his second wife, Maharani Ada, he had two daughters, Princesses Pauline and Irene Duleep Singh. Strangely none of Maharajah Duleep Singh’s children had any issue, and thus the lineage ceased. The Maharajah who died in Paris in 1893, is buried in Elveden Church beside the grave of his wife Maharani Bamba, and his son Prince Edward Albert Duleep Singh.
In the following five years, Duleep Singh was separated from his mother, exiled from Lahore, relinquished of his kingdom and property, converted to Christianity and eventually sent to Britain in 1854. It was at Buckingham Palace that the first encounter took place between the fifteen-year-old Duleep Singh and the thirty-five-year-old Queen Victoria. In her journal, she made the first of many entries concerning her subject whose background she had already studied in official memorandums:
“After luncheon… we received the young Maharajah Duleep Singh, the son of Ranjit Singh, who was deposed by us after the annexation of the Punjaub. He has been carefully brought up, chiefly in the hills, and was baptised last year, so that he is a Christian. He is extremely handsome and speaks English perfectly, and has a pretty, graceful and dignified manner. He was beautifully dressed and covered with diamonds. The “Koh-i-noor” belonged to, and was once worn by him. I always feel so much for these poor deposed Indian Princes.” (Queen Victoria’s Journal, 6 July 1854.)
This first meeting between the Empress of India and the last Sikh ruler went well. So much so that Queen Victoria was to become one of the greatest influences in the life of the young Maharaja, the first Sikh to have settled in Britain some 150 years ago.
Source: Duleepsingh.com
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The 2001 Census collected information about ethnicity and religious identity. Combining these results shows that while the population is more culturally diverse than ever before, White Christians remain the largest single group by far. In England and Wales, 36 million people (nearly 7 out of 10) described their ethnicity as White and their religion as Christian.
Sikhs are only 0.7% in whole UK. Only 301,000 according to 2001 census.
Among other faiths the largest groups were Pakistani Muslims (658 thousand) and Indian Hindus (467 thousand) followed by Indian Sikhs (301 thousand), Bangladeshi Muslims (260 thousand) and White Jews (252 thousand).
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•Ethnic minority groups are heterogeneous in their health
In terms of overall health (say measured by the all-cause SMR or self-reported health) and specific causes (say coronary heart disease or oral cancers) there is marked heterogeneity. There is also great heterogeneity within ethnic groupings.
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ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. THE NAME IS TRUTH.
CREATIVE BEING PERSONIFIED. NO FEAR. NO HATRED. IMAGE OF THE UNDYING, BEYOND BIRTH, SELF-EXISTENT. BY GURU’S GRACE ~ CHANT AND MEDITATE: TRUE IN THE PRIMAL BEGINNING. TRUE THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
TRUE HERE AND NOW. O NANAK, FOREVER AND EVER TRUE. || 1 ||
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