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...Mohammedan reprisals against followers of Hindu St. Gandhi did not at once break out was due to his great shrewdness. Before he was spirited off to jail he appointed as his successor that venerable Mohammedan Abbas Tyabji, onetime judge of the Baroda court. Result: at Amritsar leaders of the Sikh Mohammedans, "best fighters in India," last week declared for St. Gandhi and independence...
...religion of high morality grew and waxed great in the border country. But, as the years passed, the independence of the Sikhs aroused the jealousy of Akbar the Great and his Imperial Muhammadan successors,* until finally a Sikh ruler, in self-protection, was forced to add militarism to the Sikh code. His name was Govind Singh. He instituted the ceremonial of baptism. When a mature Sikh youth became baptized, he added Singh (Lion) to his name-"John Jones" became "John Jones, Lion." From baptism, the youth must wear the five "K"s: 1) kes-uncut hair of the whole body...
This new doctrine did not appeal to women, who preferred the picturesque material brightness of Hinduism, but it developed the fighting man. Hardy, victory-or-die, well-disciplined sort of fellow, the Sikh has become without peer the greatest soldier in Asia. Him the British found hardest to conquer. Having conquered him, they found him their great military asset overseas. In Shanghai and other treaty ports of China, the only constabulary are the long-haired, short-drawered Sikhs.* And, in India, it is the Sikhs who keep the peace...
...Lahore, India, when Police Superintendent Horton and his assistants were in the act of arresting Dhanna Singh, notorious leader of the Baba Akalis (Sikh zealots), a bomb which Singh was carrying exploded, blowing him and five policemen to pieces. Superintendent Horton escaped with injuries...
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the forthcoming conference is that its members will represent an estimated population of 436,752,000-more than a quarter of the world's population - whose religions are Hindu, Mohammedan, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Animist, Sikh, Jain, Parsee, Jewish, polytheistic and idolatrous...