SEPARATE SIKH STATE
TALKS WITH INDIAN CABINET REPORTED
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Secret consultations this week-end between the Maharajah of Patiala, ruler of the leading Sikh State, and members of the Indian Cabinet may result in a separate Indian State of “Sikhistan,” under the leadership of the Maharajah and Sardar Bsldev Singh, the Indian Defence Minister. This is reported by the New Delhi correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” The correspondent adds: “The comparative lull in communal warfare continues, with relative quiet in New Delhi and the Punjab, but the tension is still high in the west of the United Provinces, where danger persists that the Hindu Mahasabha, the extreme communal element of Hinduism, and the counterpart of the Moslem League, will undermine the Government’s efforts to maintain peace.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25302, 30 September 1947, Page 7
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