Didar singh bains biography books
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Didar Singh Bains, 'Peach King' who built Northern California's Sikh community, dies
In 1980, Didar Singh Bains pitched a plan for what he hoped would be an annual Sikh parade in his hometown of Yuba City, Calif.
But his peers, in a town of 19,000 about 40 miles north of Sacramento, pushed back, fearing violence and unrest.
"Some thought he was crazy," recalled Karm Bains, Didar Bain's son and a Sutter County supervisor, in a 2018 interview with NBC News. "People are going to throw rocks."
But Didar Bains thought differently.
"He said it's important for us to tell the people who we are," said Karm Bains. "We are fellow Americans, law-abiding citizens, and we want everything you want for your kids."
The annual celebration during the first weekend of November now draws some 100,000 Sikhs and others from across the country.
A farmer once deemed the "Peach King" and one of the most prominent American Sikh leaders, Didar Ba
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S. Didar Singh Bains who was a living legend has passed away.
I came to know him through Yogi Bhajan and during his visit to India in 1983 he was an honoured guest in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
He was a towering personality and fully devoted towards Sikh cause. After the sad army attack on Golden temple Bains led the protest marches at many places in the USA. He was made the Chairman of the World Sikh Council. Because of that, he was debarred from visit to India.
When I was in Los Angeles during the Olympics I went to his village Yuba city. He picked me up from the Airport and we spent hours to see his agriculture farm which was in miles. I met his wife, a Mexicon who was controlling all the farms. I spent two days with him and remember how his young son at that time showed his anger against Indra Gandhi for the Army attack.
He at that young age gave me a letter addressed to PM in very harsh language.
It was the kindness of Sh. Narsimah Rao, Prime Minister who cleared his file and
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Didar Singh Bains
Arrival in Yuba City and Agricultural Success – “The Peach King”
Didar Singh Bains arrived in the United States in 1958 with eight dollars to his name and the belief that “money could grow on trees”. He was a ung jat—a Sikh farmer who believed that farming is next to godliness. When he took a whiff of the prime Columbian loam lining the fields of Sutter County, he knew he’d found paradise and home.
He started as a basic laborer with only a few words of English in his vocabulary. His first job in the USA involved working for farmers Roy Noreen and Steve Nelson driving tractors, irrigating, and pruning and laboring in their orchards for seventy-five cents per hour. Didar remained loyal to his family and worked tirelessly to help re-unite his parents and subsequently his mother Amar Kaur and his younger brother arrived in the USA in 1962.
Through sheer hard work and perseverance he quickly rose to the rank of foreman, where everyone acknowledged that