...e women and bullock carts for the luggage, all escorted by the Highland platoon and a brigade of Sikh troops and their British officer, who had join... ... from the military cantonment in Allahabad. Helen observed that these tall, bearded and turbaned warriors looked proud and strangely at home in the... ...s from their dandy,’ said John MacGregor, when Helen requested a horse. One of the tall, bearded Sikh soldiers brought her a sturdy, little, hill p... ...asian nurses. Gavin was called once again to the Punjab for negotiations between the Company and Sikh leaders and the morning he was leaving, he cam... ...Muhammad Khan.’ On the journey, Ram Das explained that after his meetings in the Punjab with the Sikh leaders, Gavin had decided to visit Kashmir to... ... bring you food and water presently.’ He left them alone, but Helen noticed that two of the armed warriors squatted just outside the hut. The old wo... ... Helen, desperate to convince the Khan that he alone should decide, because she feared his fellow warriors would not agree to lose their valuable ba... ... Mirapore. Now if you will excuse me, I must prepare my report on my recent negotiations with the Sikhs.’ Gavin walked out on to the verandah withou... ...ing at the tall, bearded Sikh soldiers riding ahead of them could not believe that these splendid warriors could be anything but loyal to the Compan...

...At the head of the hierarchy come the Brahmins (priestly class), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (merchants and artisans) and Sudras (slaves). Outs... ...ple grew their hair, their beards, got themselves a kirpan (knife) and became Sikhs. Some people converted into Christianity along with their family... ...or Gandhi. He claims himself to be the leader of Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Untouchables. On this basis he is treated respectfully. But ... ...itutions, school records, court records but only write as ‘Hindu’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Sikhs’ or ‘Christians’. When I heard about this I whole-heartedly welc... ...t Hinduism, since the Untouchables were converting themselves to Muslims and Sikhs. They broke their heads only to save, and to make this nation re... ...eeing this, the Brahmins here sent communication to Gandhi. They accused the Sikhs of provoking a war against Hinduism. Gandhi expressed his view. ...

...ne before, and lifted up his voice in thanksgiving for that the world held warriors so wise as Stalky and McT urk. “Well-nourished old lady, ain’t she... ...ped, shouted, and yelled. A desk was carried away in the tumult, a knot of warriors reeled into and split a door-panel, a window was broken, and a gas... ...The last was Stalky’s. He was at the head of the road with some of his pet Sikhs. Mac said he believed he was all right.” “Stalky is a Sikh,” said Ter... ... Emperor!’ he said. ‘You’re just in time for the performance.’” “I saw his Sikhs looked a bit battered. ‘Where’s your com- mand? Where’s your subalter... ...d had to move and replace the corpse every time he used the pas- sage. The Sikhs wouldn’t go near the place, of course. Well, he’d got out of this hol... ...f the little accidents. Stalky’s notion was to crawl out at dusk with his Sikhs, manoeuvre ‘em along this ungodly goat-track that he’d found, to the ... ...ul Sher Khan and Rutton Singh. Our Jemadar said—he was quite right—that no Sikh living could stalk worth a damn; and that Koran Sahib had better take ...

....” Indeed, he joked quite comically in speaking of the famous horse-guards—warriors who sit on their horses to be looked at, and do not mind it, becau... ...e with her husband to India, where Harry Lovell encountered the sword of a Sikh Sirdar, and tried the last of his much-vaunted swordsmanship, which, w...

...th their rifles and bundles, shouldered into the press of Punjabi farmers, Sikh craftsmen, and greasy-locked Afreedee pedlars, escorting with all pomp... ...where he introduced him, quite carelessly, to not less than thirty ancient warriors whose sons were not the youngest majors in the army and had not th...