Word: sahibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...
Thus the story ran around the earth. Palestinians prayed each in his separate fashion, in church, synagogue and mosque," for the man who had gone. Indians saw "a bleak sad future" - they voiced their fore boding to passing G.I.s: "Sahib very bad news. Your President is dead ... a hard working man for war, a friend of poor...
Soon another precedent was shattered. Batches of "pukka sahib" generals, brigadiers and colonels, wise in the ways of frontier outposts and native rebellions, but notoriously untutored in modern jungle warfare, were ordered home to Britain. Replacing them were the bright young men of Admiral Mountbatten's old command, Combined Operations...
...Welcome, Sahib," he said without looking up. "I knew you would come today so I made an appointment with me for you. Please be seated...
Rangoon was a grave. The roads of southern Burma were alive with miserable Indian thousands, in flight both from the Japanese and from long-knived Burmese nationalists. To every white man they saw, the Indians lifted dark hands, dark faces, and cried "Sahib! Sahib!" They cried for water, for money, for safety from the lurking dacoits who knifed and stripped the stragglers...