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From: nkg1@ihlpg.UUCP (Neeraj K. Gupta)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Seperate Sikh State
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 19:32:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 19:32:51 1986
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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>

I belong to Punjab State. I and all my ancestors, as far long ago as I can
know, were born in Punjab.  There is a big difference comparing
Muslim and Hindu, AND Sikh and Hindu religion.  The Sikh religion grew
out of Hindu religion.  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
Sikhs and Hindus both cremate there dead and immerse the ashes in river.
The marriage customs are very very similar.  AND to top it all, Guru Granth
Sahib, The Holy Book, is full prayers to Rama and Shiva.  At one place
it says, a real Sikh is he, who says the name Rama atleast 10 times every day.
Visiting the Sikh Gurudwaras and Hindu temples by both communities has been
very common.  The reverence to Sikh Gurus is same amongst Hindus as for Sikhs.
The Holy places to visit are very common, the reason being, the Sikh Gurus
visited and prayed at places which were holy to Hindus at  that time.  The 
Golden Temple was built with great contribution of both Hindus and Sikhs.
And I can go on and on -----.

None of this is true for any other two religions.  Even today the trouble
or the contradictions are not over Hindus not accepting Sikh Gurus or
Sikh temples but  purely over political power.  Some selfish people are
exploting the two communities for their own selfish motive.

There are many subgroups amongst Sikhs, not accepted as such by EXTREMISTS:
Nirankaries, etc.  Will they not ask for political power in future for 
themselves?  Even with in the rank of extremists, has there not been group
fights over who takes the higher positions ? With this kind of ideas
one can fragment any land into very small communities, and call them
COUNTRIES!!!??.  

The artificial integeration of INDIA ? Even before the English, India was
joined together by one king many times, in fact it included Afghanistan and
parts of USSR (Samarkand and Tashkent). Chandragupta Mauraya, Ashoka are some
of the very old examples, Akbar is a later example.  But then China also had
its share of smaller kingdoms at times.  At which time period of history
do you draw the cut off point.  At different times different communities ruled
over various areas of land, with the same land overlapping for different
communities.  Who gets that land?