Akali

Hargobind also set up schools to train an elite warrior caste called the Akali Nihang, the immortal crocodiles, which developed secret fighting techniques

BBC News - Home 2011

Left, National Akali Dal activists shouted slogans during a protest against the increase in the price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas in New Delhi, June 4, 2008.

Steep Rise in Indian Gasoline Prices 2011

Sanjeev Gupta/European Pressphoto Agency Activists of Youth Akali Dal, a Sikh political group, shouted anti-government slogans and carried cooking gas cylinders during a protest in Amritsar, in India's state of Punjab, Friday.

Protesting Rising Fuel Prices 2011

But with elections looming in 2012, top officials from Punjab's ruling Akali Dal party weren't interested in accepting such conditions, he says.

Punjab, Star of India's Rise, Faces Steep Fall Amol Sharma 2011

The Sikh rebellion was started in the late seventies by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, whom Sanjay Gandhi, the other son of Indira Gandhi, had actively promoted in order to weaken the Sikh's Akali party for the benefit of the Congress party.

Abdul Malik Mujahid: Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan 2009

For opposition too, there is bad news with some Akali MPs likely to cross-vote for Singh and one or two Sena MPs are also said to be in favor of the motion.

Confidence Vote: Confidence Levels of UPA and Opposition 2008

Unlike Christians who have their Vatican councils Sikhs do not have a similar body and seeped in othodoxy our Sat sri akal members (Akali Dal ke beta) will not take decisions that would alter tradition.

Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002

Then an Akali, a wild-eyed, wild-haired Sikh devotee in the blue-checked clothes of his faith, with polished-steel quoits glistening on the cone of his tall blue turban, stalked past, returning from a visit to one of the independent Sikh States, where he had been singing the ancient glories of the Khalsa to College-trained princelings in top-boots and white-cord breeches.

Kim 2003

The formation of Akali dal in 1980, an organization advocating Sikh independence, began an era of conflict.

c. Globalization and Special Identities 2001

"Your punkah-wallah confessed how you wrote your cyphers with the aid of a book," sneers the Akali.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990