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Nehru and his party fared better last week in another of India's new states. In the northwest prairie state of Punjab, Tara Singh, 71, the white-bearded leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, abandoned his fight for a state of Sikhistan, and ordered his 36-year-old Akali Party of bearded, sword-wearing zealots to join the Congress Party. Henceforth, said Masterji Singh, Akali will stick to religious, economic and cultural matters only. His admonition to his Sikhs, traditionally the great warriors of India: "Girdle your loins. Buckle your sword-hilted belts. Shave no more...
...Sikhistan. The idea of having their own home state became firmly fixed in the Sikh mind at the time of the partition of old British India, when some Sikh country was shaved off to make part of what is now West Pakistan. Forced to move out, the Sikhs left a trail of massacre behind them, and were furious when Nehru ordered their swords to be sewn into their leather scabbards. Said old Tara Singh: "When the Moslems can get Pakistan, and the Hindus India, why not a Sikhs' Sikhistan?" But Nehru's Congress Party won over many...
...slight minority. "We multiply faster than Hindus and are more virile," said Tara Singh. "In ten years we will be in an absolute majority, leaving the soft-fleshed Hindus to trail behind." Two months ago Tara Singh's party, regaining its popularity, began whooping it up for Sikhistan...
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