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The Sikh Minority and the Partition of the Punjab 1920-1947 (Hardcover)
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The Sikh Minority and the Partition of the Punjab 1920-1947 (Hardcover)
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Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had
given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesced the hymns
authored or collected by the Gurus and made them a people of the
book. Guru Govind Rai created the Khalsa identity with its five
symbols (Panj Kakke). Maharaja Ranjit Singh's conquests gave them
the pride of race. British insistence on recruiting only keshdhari
Sikhs encouraged the Khalsa to assert their distinct identity. The
trend accelerated since the revolt of 1857, when John Lawrence
reversed the initial successes of the rebels with the recovery of
Delhi with forces from the Punjab. Sikhs were co-opted by the
British with the clever broadcast of the Guru Tegh Bahadur myth
that the Sikhs would be able to avenge the martyrdom of the Guru in
Delhi with the help of a white race. Since then the Sikhs formed
the backbone of the British Indian army and all their political
influence flowed out of this military connection. The unexpected
Congress concession of weightage to the Muslims in the Lucknow Pact
of 1916 awakened the Sikhs to the necessity of the defence of
Khalsa interests. Their vociferations compelled the British to
concede a 19 per cent weightage for the Sikhs in the
Montagu-Chelmsford Act of 1919. Gandhi appreciated the
indispensable nature of Sikh support for the success of the British
military machine. His attempt to subsume the Akali movement under
the umbrella of the Non-Cooperation movement in the 1920s against
the British and again his attempt to win over the Sikhs for his
Civil Disobedience movement during the Lahore Congress in 1929
reflected this shrewd political sense. Sikhs continued to wrench
concessions both from the British and the Congress as long as the
Pax Britannica had any chance of survival. But as the negotiations
for decolonization quickened after the end of the Second World War,
the magic of Sikh arms could no longer work miracles for their
slender numbers. While British statesmen from Cripps to Attlee -
all burnt gallons of midnight oil thinking of an acceptable
settlement of the Hindu-Muslim impasse, no one paid much attention
to the pathetic quest of Sikh leaders since 1940 to work out an
acceptable formula for readjusting the borders of the Punjab to
accommodate the birthplace of the Gurus or the canal colonies,
worked through long years of Sikh toil. This book traces the
history of Sikhs in India, from the formation of a distinct Sikh
identity, to their struggle for political representation in the
pre-indedenpence era and their quest for an independent state.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka
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