WILL SETTLE TROUBLES.
Effect of Sikh Women’s Threat. CALCUTTA, May 28. Alarmed at the threat made ten days ago by forty Sikh women of high caste to starve themselves to death as a protest against the differences in religious leadership which are disrupting this vast martial community in northern India, prominent Sikh leaders have appealed to Mrs Amrit Kaur, leader of the women, to postpone the fast on promise that religious leaders will meet at Lahore to endeavour to settle the differences in the community. Mrs Kaur, in announcing the inten tion to fast to death, said that the Sikh community at present was disunited, disrupted and the laughing-stock of the world. The Sikhs were denied their political rights in the Punjab Province, and ignored by the Government and Congress Party. Their great temples had become citadels of individual power and corruption, and the Sikh leaders were quarrelling with each other.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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151WILL SETTLE TROUBLES. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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