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Friday 30 April 2010

they seem to be at war with all mankind..

Those Sikhs who adhere to the original doctrines of Nanac are called Khalasa; they are less fanatical and warlike then the Singhs or followers of Guru Govind. Of these latter, a peculiar
class is called Acalis, or immortals, and sometimes Nihungs. Their fanaticism, Bumes observes, borders on insanity, and they seem to be at war with all mankind.. .They are a lawless and sanguinary class, and would have rendered the country desolate, had they not been vigorously coerced by Runjeet Singh.
Edward Thornton, A gazetteer of the Countries adjacent to India on the north-west: includingSinde, Afghanistan, the Punjab and the neighbouring states, 1844.

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