However, commotions died down fairly quickly and normal life returned. Also, ‘there were instances of mutual help and cooperation’. In September 1883, Hindu and Muslim leaders in Hoshiarpur jointly appealed for cooperation at a large public meeting chaired by a Christian. Three years later, in Ferozepore, ‘a number of Muslims contributed subscriptions for a Ram Lila procession’ and ‘on the whole supported the Hindus’ campaign against the opening of beef shops in the city’. Hindus attended Muharram congregations in Lahore, and in the 1893 Isa Khel disturbance ‘several Hindu shopkeepers
...more
