They are the burliest men on the face of the planet – tough and capable and slightly grim. If human life survives the present chapter of Man’s history, the Sikhs, for sure, will still be on the map. — An excerpt from a post on SikhChic of an interesting essay from 1958 by British historian Arnold J. Toynbee in which he wrote about the partition of the Sikh homeland in 1947.   The partition of Punjab was carried out by the departing British rulers […]

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