Word: sikhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean...
...This is a genuine religion with no hypocrisy about it.'' said Harbans Singh. "Once you become a Sikh you are one of them.*no matter what color you are or what you were before-something few other religions can claim to practice...
Last week two other quiet marriage ceremonies of seven couples were held by the small Namdhari sect of the Sikhs, who have carried on the un-Indian custom for 96 years. Any Namdhari Sikh couple has religious sanction for group marriage so long as it is conducted personally by the sect's leader, Satguru Partap Singh, 68. The cost per couple last week: $5.46. Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects...
Next largest religious group in Congress is the Methodist, with 99, followed by Presbyterians (67), Baptists (64) and Episcopalians (63). There are 13 Jewish Congressmen, eleven in the House and two in the Senate, and one Sikh, Democratic Representative Dalip S. Saund of California. Five reported no religious affiliation...
...Nangolan. As the grimy paratroopers in their red berets moved in, Major Nangolan hastily moved out, first scooping up 18 million rupiahs from a local bank and taking all the arms and gasoline he could carry. The only report of damage in the recapture of Medan came from a Sikh businessman who declared that someone had shot a hole clean through his refrigerator...