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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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Similarly, no Sikh will wear clothes of a 'suhi' colour,
having long been the Hindu devotees, as it is gradually becoming with Muhammadan ascetics. As a disi.e.
dyed with
safflower, such
favourite colour with
tinction of race, if not of creed, the unshorn locks of Sikhs have a parallel in the long hair of the Frankish nobles and freemen. The contrasting terms 'crinosus' and 'tonsoratus' arose in mediaeval Europe, and the virtue or privilege due to flowing hair was so great that Childebert talked of having his brother's children either cropped or put to death. (Hallam, Middle Ages,
notes to Chap.
II.)
The Sikhs continue to refrain from tobacco, nor do they smoke drugs of any kind, although tobacco itself seems to have been originally included as snuff only Tobacco was first introdu(M'Culloc, Commercial ced into India about 1517.
among proscribed things. Dictionary,
art.
'Tobacco'.)
It
was.
I
think, idly de-
nounced in form by one of Akbar's successors, but its use is now universal among Indian ^Muhammadans. Another point of difference which may be noticed is that the Sikhs wear a kind of breeches, or now many wear a sort of pantaloons, instead of girding up their The adoption loins after the manner of the Hindus. of the 'kachh', or breeches, is of as much importance to a Sikh boy as was the investiture with the 'toga virilis' to a Roman youth.
The Sikh women are distinguished from Hindus of their sex by some variety of dress, but chiefly by a higher topknot of hair.
APPENDIX XV
ON THE USE OF ARABIC AND SANSKRIT FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION IN INDIA Up to the present time England has made no great and lasting impress on the Indians, except as the introducer of an improved and effective military system; although she has also done much to exalt her character as a governing power, by her generally scrupulous adherence to formal engagements. The Indian mind has not yet been suffused or saturated by the genuis of the English, nor can the light of European knowledge be spread over the country, until both the Sanskrit and Arabic (Persian) Ian-
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^pp xiV
Similarly, no Sikh will wear clothes of a 'suhi' colour,
having long been the Hindu devotees, as it is gradually becoming with Muhammadan ascetics. As a disi.e.
dyed with
safflower, such
favourite colour with
tinction of race, if not of creed, the unshorn locks of Sikhs have a parallel in the long hair of the Frankish nobles and freemen. The contrasting terms 'crinosus' and 'tonsoratus' arose in mediaeval Europe, and the virtue or privilege due to flowing hair was so great that Childebert talked of having his brother's children either cropped or put to death. (Hallam, Middle Ages,
notes to Chap.
II.)
The Sikhs continue to refrain from tobacco, nor do they smoke drugs of any kind, although tobacco itself seems to have been originally included as snuff only Tobacco was first introdu(M'Culloc, Commercial ced into India about 1517.
among proscribed things. Dictionary,
art.
'Tobacco'.)
It
was.
I
think, idly de-
nounced in form by one of Akbar's successors, but its use is now universal among Indian ^Muhammadans. Another point of difference which may be noticed is that the Sikhs wear a kind of breeches, or now many wear a sort of pantaloons, instead of girding up their The adoption loins after the manner of the Hindus. of the 'kachh', or breeches, is of as much importance to a Sikh boy as was the investiture with the 'toga virilis' to a Roman youth.
The Sikh women are distinguished from Hindus of their sex by some variety of dress, but chiefly by a higher topknot of hair.
APPENDIX XV
ON THE USE OF ARABIC AND SANSKRIT FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION IN INDIA Up to the present time England has made no great and lasting impress on the Indians, except as the introducer of an improved and effective military system; although she has also done much to exalt her character as a governing power, by her generally scrupulous adherence to formal engagements. The Indian mind has not yet been suffused or saturated by the genuis of the English, nor can the light of European knowledge be spread over the country, until both the Sanskrit and Arabic (Persian) Ian-
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