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British knew how Loyal Sikhs were to their Religion and their way of life. The British knew that the Sikh people will never betray their Guru's, are loyal to their code of conduct, and these types of people are credible people. The Sikhs will never betray the British because the Sikhs are people of higher value and morals. Even the current sikh rehat maryada doesn't say "Thou shall love British" It emphasise to be a better Sikh
We know British have tried to do many wrong things in Sikhsim intially, but they had very minimum success.
First being was Maharaja Duleep Singh (at the age of 14) conversion to Christianity. So did all Sikh accepted Christ? NO..
Maharaja Duleep Singh was re-initiated to Sikhi later on.
I asked you for the original rehat maryada if the one we have is British made. Show it to us.
The preface you have shown is poorly written. But yes we Sikhs know what British have tried to do...but to say they were successful in their manipulations. They were not.
After many failures, the British knew Sikhs cannot be changed. M.A. Macauliffe job was to construct the bridge between the British and Sikhs...so the Sikhs accept British as their Friends...not enemy. It was very important for British to have Sikhs on their side.
Please Manush...remove your RRS nikkar off your head
Please produce proper proof between Pakistan and Bhindrawala.
From now on please paste the whole thing..mr. copy and paste
The freedom of women and their emancipation from the tyranny of the parda, may be inferred from the manner in which Bhai Budha received Mata[1] Ganga the wife of Guru Arjan, from Guru Amar Das's refusal to receive a rani who had visited him when she was closely veiled, and from Kabir's address to his daughter-in-law.
The high moral and enlightened teachings of the Gurus, their prohibition of the heinous crime of infanticide, and other injunctions for the public advantage will be found or understood from the composition of the Gurus and the Bhagats which we give in these volumes.
The Hindu practice of the concremation of widows was forbidden by the Gurus; though this was not generally known at the time of Lord William Bentinck, who had sufficient courage to issue an ordinance against it.
The Gurus most powerfully and successfully attacked the caste system and the Hindu belief in impurity and defilement in many necessary and harmless acts of domestic life.
It is admitted that a knowledge of the religions of the people of India, is a desideratum(important, pre-requisite) for the British Officials who administer its affairs and indirectly for the people who are governed by them so that mutual sympathy may be produced (Dears Sikhs, We have knowledge of your great Guru's teaching and believe us, we also think like you). It seems, at any rate, politic(sensible) to place before the Sikh soldiery(people) their Guru's prophecies in favour of the English and the texts of their sacred writings which foster their loyalty.
"M.A. Macauliffe is saying we should convey to the Sikh brothers that we British also think alike on social issues so that we can be their friends and win Sikh's loyality"
Learn to understand English properly
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To sum up some of the moral and political merits of the Sikh religion: It prohibits idolatry, hypocrisy, caste exclusiveness, the concremation of widows, the immurement of women, the use of wine and other intoxicants, tobacco-smoking, infanticide, slander, pilgrimages to the sacred rivers and tanks of the Hindus; and it inculcates loyalty, gratitude for all favours received, philanthropy, justice, impartiality, truth, honesty, and all the moral and domestic virtues known to the holiest citizens of any country.
A movement to declare the Sikhs Hindus, in direct opposition to the teaching of the Gurus, is widespread and of long duration. I have only quite recently met in Lahore young men claiming to be descendants of the Gurus, who told me that they were Hindus, and that they could not read the characters in which the sacred books of the Sikhs were written. Whether the object of their tutors and advisers was or was not to make them disloyal, such youths are ignorant of the Sikh religion, and of its prophecies favour of the English, and contract exclusive social customs and prejudices to the extent of calling us Malechhas, or persons of impure
"Again The author is referring to that Sikh thinking toward treatment of women and do not follow Hindu practices are in Favor of English because Sikhs & British think alike. Sikhs Gurus were great thinkers of their times and were far ahead of Hindus. The Sikhs matched like the British on social issues. Sikhs were not backwards like Hindus"
And here let me remark that the recognition of Panjabi as an official or optional official language in the Panjab, instead of the alien Urdu, would be a most powerful means of preserving the Sikh religion. Panjabi is the mother tongue of all natives of the Panjab, be they Sikhs, Hindus, or Muhammadans. If it were recognized as an official or optional official language, Sikhs would not have to resort to books written in foreign languages for religious instruction and consolation, and the exalted ethical instruction of the Granth Sahib would be open to all classes of His Majesty's subjects in the Panjab.
Give me a solid proof of Bindrawala and Pakistan connection. It was only after the Hindu Government attacked Sikh Shrines all over Punjab and butchered Sikhs on the streets of New Delhi that the Sikhs militancy movement started. ISI is not to blame if your own house in not in order. Wouldn't Indian RAW jump on this sort of Golden Opportunity in Pakistan? you bet they will. Look at Baluchistan, look at the state of Pakistan...RAW, CIA to blame for everything.
MY Dear Sikh Sangat, do not believe in this man Manush. He is a copy & paste Idiot. He only brings in a small quote and leaves behind the whole message in all his post to manipulate and alter this beautiful religion.