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Tuesday 22 December 2009

Accounts of the Akali Nihang Singh Khalsa


They are, without any exception, the most insolent and worthless race of people in all India. They are religious fanatics, and acknowledge no ruler and no laws but their own; think nothing of
robbery, or even murder, should they happen to be in the humour for it. They move about constantly, armed to the teeth, and it is not an unconmion thing to see them riding about with a drawn sword in each hand, two more in their belt, a matchlock at their back, and three of four pair of quoits fastened round their turbans.
Sir Lepel Griffin, Ranjit Singh

Monday 21 December 2009

The Sikhs and their martial Skills against the British


Cavalry Swords.—In the Sikh war, arms , heads, hands, and legs of British soldiers were lopped off by the enemv on all sides, while swordsmen laboured often in vain to even draw blood, let the Sikhs, it was found, used chiefly our own cast-off dragoon blades, fitted into new handles, sharpened until they had a razor edge, and worn in wooden scabbards, from which they were never drawn except in action. In such scabbards they were not blunted and they were noiseless; they made none of that incessant clanging which almost drowns the trumpet or bugle, and quite word of command, in the ranks of our own cavalry regiments; and which, unless the men wrap hay about the steel, renders any attempt at surprise by cavalry perfectly absurd. The wooden scabbard, it was found upon inquiry, are even less brittle than steel ones. A squadron of the Third Dragoons charged a baud of Sikh horsemen under Major Unett. The Sikhs let the squadron enter. A dragoon of the front rank thrust with his sword point at the nearest Sikh. The weapon broke into the skin, but did not penetrate so far as to do any serious mischief. The Sikh, in return , struck the dragoon across the mouth, and took his head off. A Sikh at Chillianwallah galloped up to the horse artillery, cut down the two first men, and attacked the third. He, seeing that his comrades had been unable to save their lives by the use of their blunt swords , left his sword in the scabbard, and fought off the assailant with his riding-whip—flogging away the Sikh's horse, to keep the fatal arm at a safe distance. So he saved himself. There can be no doubt that heavy riding-whips would be more formidable weapons in all warfare than the cavalry swords now in use.—Dickens's " Household Words."

A newspaper article before Punjab was invaded by the British


Friday 18 December 2009

The sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom

gur giaan kharrag hathh dhhaariaa jam maariarraa jamakaal 7 You hold in your hands the sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom;
with this destroyer of death, kill the Messenger of Death. 7 Guru Raam Daas Ji in Raag Gauree on Panna 234.

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Thursday 17 December 2009

The Sanctuary of the Lord's Feet is my fortress and battlement.


Soohee, Fifth Mehla:
He is my friend, companion, child, relative and sibling.
Wherever I look, I see the Lord as my companion and helper. 1
The Lord's Name is my social status, my honor and wealth.
He is my pleasure, poise, bliss and peace. 1Pause
I have strapped on the armor of meditation on the Supreme Lord God.
It cannot be pierced, even by millions of weapons. 2
The Sanctuary of the Lord's Feet is my fortress and battlement.
The Messenger of Death, the torturer, cannot demolish it. 3
Slave Nanak is forever a sacrifice to the selfless servants and Saints of the Sovereign Lord, the Destroyer of ego. 41925