Badges of Bondage: The Conquest of the Sikh Mind (1847-1947 C.E.) Whitney Ellsworth Backpacker

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Badges of Bondage: The Conquest of the Sikh Mind (1847-1947 C.E.) Whitney Ellsworth BackpackerIn 1846 C. E., when they had defeated the Sikh nation of Punjab, the officers of the British East India company found themselves in charge of a vast tract of land inhabited by a proud people with a history of surviving political and religious oppression. The Khalsa Sikhs, the order of "saint soldiers" founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 had weathered Mughal oppression and rebounded from two ghallugharas, or "holocausts" (1746 and 1762). When the Sikh