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From: raj@umcp-cs.UUCP (Raj Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Seperate Sikh State
Message-ID: <3775@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 12:26:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 12:26:35 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 04:25:23 EDT
References: <2536@ihlpg.UUCP> <1245@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: raj@umcp-cs.UUCP (Raj Bhatnagar)
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In article <1245@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> martillo@trillian.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>In article <2536@ihlpg.UUCP> nkg1@ihlpg.UUCP writes:
>>To: ihnp4!cbatt!clyde!caip!elbereth!rutgers!husc6!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-trillian!martillo
>>Subject: Re: An Independent Sikh State
>>In-reply-to: your article <1232@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
>
>>...........  Till about 40-50 years back, it was very common for
>>the eldest son of a Hindu family to become a Sikh.  Marriage between Hindus
>>and Sikhs is very common, even now.  There are thousands of families, nay
>>tens of thousand families, with both Hindu and Sikh blood reletives.  The
>>.............
>
>I have also read this as well and I am not sure if I believe it.  If
>there is a knowledgeable Sikh on the net, I would be interested in
>comments.  I was under the impression Sikh religion rejected a lot of
>specifically Hindu practices like caste.  Further I am under the
>impression Sikh religion owes a lot to Islam and is basically
>monotheist.  I do not understand what would be the caste status of the
>children of a Hindu/Sikh marriage.  The only Sikh/Hindu marriages I
>know of are between people who are totally removed from traditional
>Hindu or Sikh culture. 

So you don't believe what somebody from India may have to say about India.
You don't even say why not. Okay....Go to India and see for yourself!!!
But if you want to close your eyes from reality and live in an imaginary
world, don't be ridiculous by showing it off to the real world!!
>
>Maybe people
>have selfish motives for keeping a united India.
>
Yes, 700 million people have such selfish motives.
Mr Martillo, what is your objection?

>> With this kind of ideas
>>one can fragment any land into very small communities, and call them
>>COUNTRIES!!!??.  
>
>So what?  Almost all the countries in Europe are tiny even compared to
>India.
>
But what about 700 million people with selfish motives who like a united
India??

>
>Europe has been united under the Romans, the Holy Roman Empire, the
>French and the Germans but that is hardly any reason to say Europe
>should be one country today. 

Yes, that also is hardly any reason to say that India should be Balkanized!!

 Chinese culture is a unitary culture in
>a way that European culture or Indian culture is not but to tell the
>truth, most Chinese would probably be a lot better off if the People's
>Republic were split up into several countries.
 
Thanks for your advice but sorry, there are no takers!!!

Why do you so strongly feel that India should split up? What have you got
against a united India?

---raj