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{{see also|List of terrorist incidents in Punjab, India}}
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|+ '''Punjab insurgency chronology outline'''
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! Date || Event || Source
1955 Golden Temple Attack 200 Sikhs martyred
43 Sikhs martyred during Punjabi Suba
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| March 1972||Akalis routed in [[1972 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|Punjab elections]], Congress wins ||
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|17 October 1973 ||[[Anandpur Resolution|Akalis ask for their rights through Anandpur Sahib Resolution]] ||
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|25 April 1980||[[Gurbachan Singh]] of Sant Nirankari sect shot dead.||
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| 2 June 1980||Akalis lose election in Punjab ||<ref>Mrs. Gandhi's Party Wins Easily In 8 of 9 States Holding Elections, ''The New York Times'', 3 June 1980 [https://www.nytimes.com/1980/06/03/archives/mrs-gandhis-party-wins-easily-in-8-of-9-states-holding-elections.html?sq=akali++1980&scp=1]
</ref>
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|16 Aug 1981||Sikhs in [[Harmandir Sahib|Golden Temple]] meet foreign correspondents||<ref>IN INDIA, SIKHS RAISE A CRY FOR INDEPENDENT NATION, MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, ''THE NEW YORK TIMES'', 16 August 1981</ref>
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|9 Sep 1981||[[Lala Jagat Narain]], Editor, Hind Samachar group murdered.||<ref>GUNMEN SHOOT OFFICIAL IN A TROUBLED INDIAN STATE, THE NEW YORK TIMES,
18 October 1981</ref>
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|29 Sep 1981||Sikh separatists are killed on an Indian Jetliner in Pakistan when they hijack it.||<ref>Sikh Separatists murdered on Indian Jetliner to Pakistan, MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, ''The New York Times'' 30 September 1981</ref>
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| 19 November 1981 ||Police Inspector Pritam Singh Bajwa and Constable Surat Singh of Jalandhar were gunned down in [[Daheru]] village in [[Ludhiana district]]. The terrorists, who were hiding in the house of Amarjit Singh Nihang, all managed to escape. This act gained [[Babbar Khalsa]] and its chief [[Talwinder Singh Parmar]] notoriety. Named in the [[first information report]] were Wadhawa Singh (current Babbar Khalsa chief, now residing in Pakistan), [[Talwinder Singh Parmar]], Amarjit Singh Nihang, Amarjit Singh (Head Constable), Sewa Singh (Head Constable) and Gurnam Singh (Head Constable).||<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010521/punjab1.htm |website=www.tribuneindia.com |access-date=19 July 2018 |date=20 May 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043524/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010521/punjab1.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

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| 11 Feb 1982||US gives cisa to [[Jagjit Singh Chauhan]]|| <ref>Two Visa Disputes Annoy and Intrigue India, MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, ''The New York Times'', 11 February 1982</ref>
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|11 Apr 1982||US based Sikh activist G. S. Dhillon barred From India||<ref>Sikh Separatist Is Barred From Visiting India, ''The New York Times'', 11 April 1982</ref>
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| July 1982|| Protesting Sikhs storm the parliament after the inaction of authorities regarding the deaths of 34 Sikhs in police custody ||<ref name="select.nytimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A14FA3C5F0C718DDDA90994DA484D81&scp=1&sq=ANGRY+SIKHS+STORM+INDIA%27S+ASSEMBLY+BUILDING|title=ANGRY SIKHS STORM INDIA'S ASSEMBLY BUILDING, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12 October 1982|website=nytimes.com|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 4 Aug 1982||Akalis demand autonomy and additional regions for Punjab ||<ref>The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood By Darshan Singh Tatla</ref>
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| 11 Oct 1982||Sikhs stage protests at the Indian Parliament ||<ref name="select.nytimes.com"/>
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| Nov 1982||Longowal threatens to disrupt [[Asian Games]]||<ref>Sikhs Raise the Ante at A Perilous Cost to India, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, ''The New York Times'', 7 November 1982</ref>
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| 27 Feb 1983||Sikhs permitted to carry daggers in domestic flights||<ref>Concessions Granted to Sikhs By Mrs. Gandhi's Government, ''The New York Times'', 28 February 1983</ref>
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| 23 April 1983||Punjab Police [[Deputy Inspector General]] [[A. S. Atwal]] was shot dead as he left the Harmandir Sahib compound by a gunman from Bhindranwale's group||
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|3 May 1983||[[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]], talks of violence being perpetuated against Sikhs and for India to understand||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6071FF73E5C0C708CDDAC0894DB484D81&scp=8&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt SIKH HOLY LEADER TALKS OF VIOLENCE, WILLIAM K. STEVENSS, ''The New York Times'', 3 May 1983]</ref>
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|18 June 1983||A detective Inspector from Punjab police killed by Sikh militants||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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|14 July 1983||Four policemen killed by Sikh militants in physical confrontation||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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|21 September 1983||Senior superintendent of Police wounded and his guard killed by Sikh militants||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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|29 September 1983||5 Police constables killed by Sikh militants ||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>

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|5 Oct 1983||6 Hindu passengers killed in [[1983 Dhilwan bus massacre]]. ||<ref name="ReferenceA">INDIAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER A STATE SWEPT BY RELIGIOUS STRIFE, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, 7 October 1983</ref><ref name="JeffreySpringer">{{cite book |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Robin |title=What's Happening to India?: Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, and the Test for Federalism |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781349234103 |page=167 |edition=2, Illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQO_DAAAQBAJ&q=6+hindu+bus+passengers+killed&pg=PA167 |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
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|6 Oct 1983||President's rule imposed in Punjab||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>

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|14 Oct 1983|| 2 people killed in a bombing at a Hindu festival in Chandigarh ||<ref name=NYT16Oct1983>WILLIAM K. STEVENS, The New York Times'', {{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/world/mrs-gandhi-says-terrorism-will-end.html?ref=terrorism
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502160420/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/world/mrs-gandhi-says-terrorism-will-end.html?ref=terrorism
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=2 May 2019
|title=Mrs. Gandhi Says Terrorism Will Fail
|date=16 October 1983 }}</ref>

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| Oct 1983|| *Hindu pulled off a train and bus and killed||<ref>11 PEOPLE KILLED IN PUNJAB UNREST, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, ''The New York Times'', 23 February 1984</ref>
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| mid-Oct 1983||
* Two people injured in a bomb blast on the outskirts of Chandigarh.
* Two people were killed and more than 30 injured when grenades exploded in two theaters in Delhi.
* 2 people were injured when a grenade went off in the New Delhi railway station.
||<ref name=NYT16Oct1983/>
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|21 Oct 1983||A passenger train was derailed and 2 agricultural labourers travelling were killed by Sikh militants||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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|18 Nov 1983||A bus was hijacked and 4 passengers were killed by Sikh militants||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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| 9 Feb 1984||A wedding procession bombed||<ref>General Strike Disrupts Punjab By SANJOY HAZARIKA, ''The New York Times'', 9 February 1984;</ref>
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| 14 Feb 1984||Six policemen abducted from a post near Golden Temple and one of them killed. Romantic||
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| 14 Feb 1984||More than 12 Sikhs killed in riots in Haryana||<ref name="JeffreySpringer"/>
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| 19 Feb 1984||Sikh-Hindu clashes spread in North India||<ref>Sikh-Hindu Clashes Spread in North India, ''The New York Times'', 19 February 1984</ref>
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| 23 Feb 1984||3 Hindus killed and 24 injured by Sikh militants|| <ref>{{cite news |title=11 HINDUS KILLED IN PUNJAB UNREST |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/23/world/11-hindus-killed-in-punjab-unrest.html |access-date=5 November 2018 |work=New York Times |date=23 February 1984}}</ref>
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| 25 Feb 1984||1 Hindu killed in by Sikh militants, total 69 Hindus slayed over last 11 days ||<ref name="NYT25Feb1983">{{cite news |title=Sikh-Hindu Violence Claims 6 More Lives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/25/world/around-the-world-sikh-hindu-violence-claims-6-more-lives.html |access-date=5 November 2018 |work=New York Times |date=25 February 1984}}</ref>
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|28 Feb 1984
||President of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) H.S Manchada shot dead at ITO, Delhi||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sidhu|first1=G.B.S|title=The Khalistan Conspiracy |date=2020|publisher=HarperCollins|location=India|isbn=9390327725|page=113}}</ref>
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| 29 Feb 1984||By this time, the Sikh political centre had become the centre of the 19-month-old uprising by the Sikhs ||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C17FE3F5D0C7A8EDDAB0894DC484D81&scp=14&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt Sikh Temple: Words of Worship, Talk of Warfare, ''The New York Times'', 29 February 1984]</ref>
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| 03 Apr 1984
||A prominent member of [[BJP]], Harbans Lal Khanna, killed at Amritsar||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sidhu|first1=G.B.S|title=The Khalistan Conspiracy |date=2020|publisher=HarperCollins|location=India|isbn=9390327725|page=113}}</ref>
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| 04 Apr 1984
||Professor [[V. N. Tiwari]], a [[Rajya Sabha]] MP and father of Congress leader [[Manish Tewari]] was shot dead in [[Chandigarh]] while on a morning walk||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sidhu|first1=G.B.S|title=The Khalistan Conspiracy |date=2020|publisher=HarperCollins|location=India|isbn=9390327725|page=113}}</ref>
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| 14 April 1984||Surinder Singh Sodhi, follower of Bhindranwale, shot dead at the temple by a man and a woman||<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/15/world/around-the-world-125341.html|title=Around the World|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 April 1984|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 17 April 1984||Deaths of 3 Sikh Activists in factional fighting||<ref>3 Sikh Activists Killed In Factional Fighting, ''The New York Times'', 17 April 1984</ref>
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| 12 May 1984
||Romesh Chander, son of [[Lala Jagat Narain]], former Editor, Hind Samachar group murdered.||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sidhu|first1=G.B.S|title=The Khalistan Conspiracy |date=2020|publisher=HarperCollins|location=India|isbn=9390327725|page=113}}</ref>
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| 27 May 1984||Hindu politician killed in Ferozepur||<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/27/world/5-more-die-in-continuing-indian-unrest.html | title=5 More dies in continuing indian unrest|work=The New York Times|date=27 May 1984}}</ref>
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|1 June 1984||Army controls Punjab's security ||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A11FB3E5F0C708CDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=9&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt INDIAN ARMY TAKES OVER SECURITY IN PUNJAB AS NEW VIOLENCE FLARES, ''The New York Times'', 3 June 1984]</ref>
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|1 June 1984|| Total media and the press black out in Punjab, the rail, road and air services in Punjab suspended. Foreigners' and NRIs' entry was also banned and water and electricity supply cut off. Overall, draconian rules which would irrevocably alter the course of Punjab’s history, were thoughtlessly imposed by New Delhi. ||<ref>{{cite news | last = Hamlyn |first = Michael | title = Journalists removed from Amritsar: Army prepares to enter Sikh shrine | pages =36| work = The Times | date = 6 June 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle
|last=Tully
|first=Mark
|publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]
|year=1985
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Gun battle rages in Sikh holy shrine| pages =1| work = The Times | date = 5 June 1984}}</ref>
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| 5 June 1984||Operation Blue Star to remove militants from Harmandir Sahib commences, Punjab shut-down from outside world.||<ref>HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED AT SHRINE IN PUNJAB, ''The New York Times'', 5 June 1984</ref>
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|6 June 1984|| Daylong battle in temple ||<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/06/world/indians-report-daylong-battle-at-sikh-temple.html INDIANS REPORT DAYLONG BATTLE AT SIKH TEMPLE, ''The New York Times'', 6 June 1984]</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Correcting Previous Statement on Golden Temple|journal=Congressional Record – Senate (US Government)|date=17 June 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7KC0dkdQWWwC&q=sikhs+murders++dates&pg=PA13756|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref>
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| 7 June 1984||[[Harmandir Sahib]] desecrated by Indian Army||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70914FB395F0C748CDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=3&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt 308 PEOPLE KILLED AS INDIAN TROOPS TAKE SIKH TEMPLE, ''The New York Times'', 7 June 1984]</ref>
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| 7 June 1984||Sant [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]] attained Martyrdom as per the sikh perspective. But according to the Indian state the nation was relieved of a terrorist.||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A1FF8395F0C7B8CDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=2&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt,|title=SIKH CHIEFS: FUNDAMENTALIST PRIEST, FIREBRAND STUDENT AND EX-GENERAL New York Times, 8 June 1984|website=nytimes.com|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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|8 June 1984||27 Sikhs killed in protests in Srinagar, Ludhiana, Amritsar after Government forces fired on protesters||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D11F9395F0C7B8CDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=4&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt SIKHS PROTESTING RAID ON SHRINE; 27 DIE IN RIOTS, ''The New York Times'', 8 June 1984]</ref>
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|9 June 1984||Weapons seized, troops fired on||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D11F9395F0C7B8CDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=4&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt SIKHS IN TEMPLE HOLD OUT: MORE VIOLENCE IS REPORTED; 27 DIE IN RIOTS, ''The New York Times'', 9 June 1984]</ref>
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| 10 June 1984||Reports of anti-Sikh riots and killings in Delhi||<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10911FE385F0C738DDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=8&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt INDIAN GOVERNMENT TAKES ON SIKHS IN A BLOODY ENCOUNTER, ''The New York Times'', 10 June 1984]</ref>
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|11 June 1984||Negotiators close to a settlement on waters||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B14FB385F0C718DDDAF0894DC484D81&scp=4&sq=Bhindranwale&st=nyt,|title=''The New York Times'', 12 June 1984|website=nytimes.com|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 24 August 1984||7 Sikh terrorists abduct 100 passengers in [[1984 Indian Airlines Airbus A300 hijacking]]||<ref name="Nyt_IA_hijack1984">{{cite news |title=INDIAN JET CARRYING Z264 HIJACKED TO PAKISTAN, REPORTEDLY BY SIKHS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/06/world/indian-jet-carrying-z264-hijacked-to-pakistan-reportedly-by-sikhs.html |access-date=13 July 2018 |work=New York Times |date=1984 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713171330/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/06/world/indian-jet-carrying-z264-hijacked-to-pakistan-reportedly-by-sikhs.html |archive-date=13 July 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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|31 October 1984||[[Assassination of Indira Gandhi|Indira Gandhi assassinated]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1091FFF385D0C728CDDA80994DC484D81&scp=5&sq=Indira+gandhi+killed&st=nyt,|title=GANDHI, SLAIN, IS SUCCEEDED BY SON; KILLING LAID TO 2 SIKH BODYGUARDS New York Times, 1 November 1984|website=nytimes.com|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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|1 November 1984||[[1984 anti-Sikh riots]] begin in Delhi||<ref name="2009BBCremember">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8306420.stm|title=Indira Gandhi's death remembered|last=Bedi|first=Rahul|date=1 November 2009|publisher=BBC|quote=The 25th anniversary of Indira Gandhi's assassination revives stark memories of some 3,000 Sikhs killed brutally in the orderly pogrom that followed her killing|access-date=2 November 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091102113639/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8306420.stm| archive-date= 2 November 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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|3 November 1984|| Anti Sikh Violence a total of 2,733 Sikhs were killed||<ref name="2009BBCremember"/>
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|23 June 1985|| [[Air India Flight 182]] was bombed by Sikh terrorists killing 329 people (including 22 crew members); almost all of them Hindus||
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|20 August 1985||[[Harchand Singh Longowal]] assassinated||<ref>Religion and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab, By Harnik Deol, Routledge, 2000</ref>
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|29 September 1985
||60% vote, Akali Dal won 73 of 115 seats, Barnala CM||<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DF1239F93AA1575AC0A963948260&scp=8&sq=punjab+election&st=nyt TEMPLE Gandhi Hails A Loss in Punjab, ''The New York Times'', 29 September 1985]</ref>
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|26 January 1986
||Sikhs have a global meeting and the rebuilding of [[Akal Takht]] declared as well as the five member Panthic Committee selected and have draft of the Constitution of Khalistan written||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tatla|first1=Darsham|title=The Sikh Diaspora: The Search For Statehood|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=9781135367442|page=277}}</ref>
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|29 April 1986
| Resolution of Khalistan passed by [[Sarbat Khalsa]] and Khalistan Commando Force also formed at [[Akal Takht]] with more than 80,000 Sikhs present. ||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mandair|first1=Arvind-Pal|title=Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed|date=2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781441102317|page=103}}</ref>
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|25 July 1986
| 14 Hindus and one Sikh passenger killed in the [[1986 Muktsar Bus massacre]] by unidentified separatists||<ref name="LAT15Hindus">{{cite news |last1=Tempest |first1=Rone |title=Suspected Sikh Terrorists Kill 15 on India Bus |url=https://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-26/news/mn-2_1_sikhs |access-date=17 October 2018 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=26 July 1986}}</ref>
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|30 November 1986
|| 24 Hindu passengers killed in the [[1986 Hoshiarpur Bus massacre]] by terrorists ||<ref name="NYT_1Dec1986">{{cite news |title=TEMPLE EXTREMISTS HIJACK PUNJAB BUS AND KILL 24 PEOPLE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/01/world/sikh-extremists-hijack-punjab-bus-and-kill-24-people.html |access-date=17 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=1 December 1986}}</ref>
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| 19 May 1987 || General Secretary CPI(M) Comrade [[Deepak Dhawan]] was brutally murdered at Village Sangha, Tarn Taran||
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| 14 June 1987 || unidentified militants kill 25 in two attacks||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/33ef74e382e1329a3ed2b9e872c2d0c8|title=Sikh mili tanta kill 25 in two attacks|publisher=Apnews|access-date=22 July 2020|language=en|date=14 June 1987}}</ref>
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| 7 July 1987|| unidentified terrorists from attacked two buses. They singled out and killed 70 Hindu bus passengers in [[1987 Haryana killings]] ||<ref name=":NYT_34hindus">{{cite web |last1=Hazarika |first1=Sanjoy |title=34 Hindus Killed in New Bus Raids; Suspected |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/08/world/34-hindus-killed-in-new-bus-raids-suspected.html |work=New York Times |access-date=12 July 2018 |language=en |date=8 July 1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Tavleen |last2=Khandekar |first2=Sreekant |title=Terrorists kill bus passengers in Punjab and Haryana mercilessly |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19870731-terrorists-kill-bus-passengers-in-punjab-and-haryana-mercilessly-799092-1987-07-31 |work=India Today |date=31 July 1987 |language=en}}</ref>
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| 19 February 1988
|| In Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur and Patiala, bombs were exploded in courts by Babbar Khalsa. 12 to 13 persons killed and nearly 50 injured.||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/02/20/courts-bombed-in-indias-punjab/8b453431-8cee-43db-8a6d-ab0223a364e5|title=Courts bombed in India's punjab|work=Washington Post|date=20 February 1988}}</ref>
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| 2 April 1988 ||Unidentified gunmen stormed into huts and houses across Punjab state and killed 37 people, Including seven children.||<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/c03d07b22eecb6cd39e5a15e158ee74b|title=Sikh militants kill 35 in year's worst violence|publisher=Apnews|date=2 April 1988}}</ref>
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| 12 May 1988||[[Operation Black Thunder II]] to remove militants from Harmandir Sahib||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Sarabjit|title=Operation Black Thunder: An Eyewitness Account of Terrorism in Punjab|date=2002|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9780761995968}}</ref>

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| 20 May 1988
|| A series of bombs allegedly planted by extremists exploded in Himachal Pradesh state buses. At least 10 people were killed. ||<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/20/world/sikhs-blamed-in-bombing-at-shop-in-punjab-15-die.html|title=Sikhs blamed in bombing at shop in punjab|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 June 1988}}</ref>
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|10 January 1990||Senior Superintendent of Batala Police Gobind Ram killed in bomb blast in retaliation of police gang raping Sikh woman of Gora Choor village||<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mahmood|first1=Cynthia|title=Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants|date=2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=9780812200171|page=46}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=S. K.|title=Terrorism, World Under Siege|date=1995|publisher=APH Publishing|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788170246657|page=469}}</ref>

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| 16 June 1991||80 people killed on two trains by extremists||<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DE1539F935A25755C0A967958260&scp=3&sq=congress+win+punjab&st=nyt Extremists in India Kill 80 on 2 Trains As Voting Nears End, ''The New York Times'', 16 June 1991]</ref>
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| 17 October 1991||[[1991 Rudrapur bombings]]||

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| 25 February 1992||Congress sweeps Punjab Assembly elections||<ref>The Punjab Elections 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Gurharpal Singh, Asian Survey, Vol. 32, No. 11 (Nov. 1992), pp. 988–999 {{JSTOR|2645266}}</ref>
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| 3 August 1992 || 29 hindus, first kidnapped and then killed by unidentified extremists in Uttarpradesh.||<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/3248f21ad6fc3d5de669a29b501db8c5|title=29 hindus slain by suspected militants|publisher=Apnews|date=3 August 1992 }}</ref>
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| 7 January 1993||Punjab's Biggest encounter done in village Chhichhrewal Tehsil Batala, 11 terrorists were encountered||
<ref>Gurharpal Singh, Asian Survey, Vol. 32, No. 11 (Nov. 1992), pp. 988–999 {{JSTOR|2645266}}</ref>

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| 1 March 1993
|| [[Gurbachan Singh Manochahal]], the leader of is killed by the police. ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S-AVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2130,10808&dq=bhindranwala+tigers+force+of+khalistan&hl=en|title=The Milwaukee Sentinel - Google News Archive Search|access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-QwxAAAAIBAJ&pg=1778,127110&dq=bhindranwala+tigers+force+of+khalistan&hl=en|title=The Daily Gazette - Google News Archive Search|access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref>

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| 3 September 1995
||CM [[Beant Singh (chief minister)|Beant Singh]] killed in bomb blast||<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/world/assassination-reminds-india-that-sikh-revolt-is-still-a-threat.html|title=Assassination Reminds India That Sikh Revolt Is Still a Threat|first=John F.|last=Burns|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 September 1995|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

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| 28 July 2001 || The Army and district administration recover more than 1100 live bombs, a rocket and shells from steel scrap in [[Ludhiana]] in a joint operation over two days. ||<ref name=SATPPunjab2001>{{cite web|url=http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2001.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430205152/http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2001.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Punjab Timeline: 2001|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

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| 31 July 2001 ||Two boxes containing explosives were recovered from Khilchi village, [[Ferozepur district]] near the India-Pakistan border. ||<ref name=SATPPunjab2001 />

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| August 12, 2001 ||[[Punjab Police (India)|Punjab Police]] recover more than 120 live bombs on the outskirts of Mandi Gobindgarh town. ||<ref name=SATPPunjab2001 />

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| 31 January 2002 || Two persons are killed and 12 injured in an explosion inside a Punjab Roadways bus at Patrana, [[Hoshiarpur district]]. ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2002.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430221803/http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2002.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Punjab Timeline: 2002|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

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| 14 October 2007||Seven persons, including a 10-year-old child, were killed and 40 injured in a bomb blast in a cinema hall in Ludhiana. ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2007.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430214733/http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2007.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Punjab Timeline: 2007|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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|24 May 2009||[[Vienna temple attack]]||
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| 18 January 2010||A bomb was discovered along the Bhiwanigarh-Nabha highway outside [[Indian Oil]]'s LPG bottling plant in Nabha, [[Patiala district]]. ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2010.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430214206/http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2010.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Punjab Timeline: 2010|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 13 October 2011 ||Five kg of RDX and 5 detonators were recovered from a car outside [[Ambala]] Cantt Railway Station. Two timers were found in the cavity of the power window buttons. ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/videos/india/alerts-464-414415.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430220428/https://www.news18.com/videos/india/alerts-464-414415.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Ambala RDX haul: KTF claims responsibility|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

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| 15 September 2013
||Punjab Police busted a sleeper cell of [[Khalistan_Liberation_Force|KLF]] that had planned to target several [[Shiv Sena]] leaders. They arrested three militants named Sukhjinder Singh, Narinder Pal and Surinder Singh in [[Gurdaspur district]].||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2013.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430211709/http://old.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/timelines/2013.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2019|title=Punjab Timeline: 2013|date=30 April 2019|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

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| 2016|| The [[Dashmesh Regiment]] ''jathebandi'' group has claimed responsibility for two of the killings in the [[2016–17 Targeted killings in Punjab, India]]. ||<ref name=h1>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/little-known-sikh-group-claims-to-have-killed-punjab-rss-vice-chief-gagneja-shiv-sena-leader/story-hEEpDFiXxACk0q6gNWDRSO.html|title=Little-known Sikh group claims to have killed RSS leader Gagneja|date=September 29, 2016|website= hindustantimes.com/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaur |first1=Kamaljit |title=Pakistan's Khalistan agenda behind killing of 6 Hindu leaders in Punjab, says NIA |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nia-claims-scientific-proof-to-establish-pak-behind-killing-of-six-hindu-leaders-killing-in-punjab-with-aim-to-revive-khalistani-militancy-1144891-2018-01-15 |work=India Today |date=15 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
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| September 2019|| The police busted a terror module of the [[Khalistan Zindabad Force]] (KZF), backed by some persons based in Pakistan and Germany. Four KZF terrorists, Balwant Singh alias Nihang, Akashdeep Singh alias Akash Randhawa, Harbhajan Singh and Balbir Singh were arrested. KZF terrorists also burned a drone sent from Pakistan to drop arms and ammunition into Punjab after it failed to fly back.||<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/khalistanis-burn-arms-laden-pak-drone-after-it-fails-to-return/articleshow/71303107.cms|title=Pakistan drone in Punjab: Khalistanis burn arms-laden Pakistan drone after it fails to return | India News - Times of India}}</ref>
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| July 2020|| The Indian Government blocked 40 websites linked to the banned pro-Khalistan group [[ Sikhs for Justice]] being used to propagate an anti-India sentiment across the world and for enticing Sikh youth to join militancy. ||<ref>{{cite news |title=Pro-khalistan group websites blocked, SFJ's Pannun is govt's next target |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pro-khalistan-group-websites-blocked-sfj-s-pannun-is-govt-s-next-target/story-0Q74ZUaRkbdjEKpGz6r9JO.html |work=Hindustan Times |date=5 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

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==See also==
[[List of terrorist incidents in Punjab (India)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Insurgency in Punjab]]

Timeline of the insurgency in Punjab - Revision history

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