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The Punjab Chiefs
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Ranjit Singh
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“...Of the Hindu, of whatever caste, it may be said, as of the poet, nascitur non fit. His birth status is unalterable. But with the Sikh the exact reverse is the case. Born of a Sikh father, he is not himself counted of the faith until, as a grown boy, he has been initiated and received the baptism of the pahul at the Akal Bungah or some equally sacred place.”
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
“Even in the palmiest days of the Khalsa it is astonishing how small a proportion of the Punjab population was of the Sikh profession. The fierce fanaticism of the earlier years of the century was succeeded by the unequalled military organisation of
the Maharaja, and these together enabled a people who were never numerically more than a sect of Hinduism to overrun the whole Punjab and Kashmir, to beat back the Afghans to the mountains, and to
found a powerful kingdom in which they were outnumbered by Hindus and Muhammadans by ten to one.”
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
the Maharaja, and these together enabled a people who were never numerically more than a sect of Hinduism to overrun the whole Punjab and Kashmir, to beat back the Afghans to the mountains, and to
found a powerful kingdom in which they were outnumbered by Hindus and Muhammadans by ten to one.”
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
“The children of the mountains are too free and independent to bear with any patience the restraints of civilization. But the Sikh is always the same ; in peace^ in war, in barracks or in the field, ever genial, good-tempered and uncomplaining: a fair horseman, a stubborn infantry soldier, as steady under fire as he is eager for a charge.”
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh
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