Sikh Jatha in The 20th Century
The most recent Sikh Jatha today is the Babbar Khalsa, also known as Babbar Khalsa International. There are many new Jatha's but the Babbar Khalsa was and is the most active. The name is traced to the Babbar Akali Movement of 1920, which agitated against British colonial rule.
The founders of this Jatha were Sukhdev Singh Babbar, Mehal Singh Babbar and Amarjit Kaur. Soon after the British left India, the crackdown on Sikh militant organizations and Jatha's began by the Indian Government in the 1990s, followed by the criminal and government infiltration of the Khalistan movement and the various militant organisations respectively, greatly weakened the Babbar Khalsa, leading to the death of Sukhdev Singh Babbar and Talwinder Singh Parmar in 1992.
The Babbar Khalsa was deemed a terrorist organization respectively, by the Indian, UK and Canadian Governments after the killings of many Indian police associate's such as Police Inspector Pritam Bajwa was gunned down, DSP Gobind Ram killed by a car bomb blast, killing of Chief Minister Beant Singh and many others including the bombing of Air India flight 182. These people were all targeted by the Babbar Khalsa as they were claimed to be traitors and gave bad names about the Babbar Khalsa and Khalistan movement to the press, in which led to reporters who published bad things about the Jatha's were all gunned down. The organization of the Jatha is the most active as it is predominantly active today in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and Pakistan.
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