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Probably you know very little about the Sikhs, although some of you may have seen them directing the traffic in Hong Kong or Singapore. They are all well-built, handsome men who wear picturesque turbans and never cut their hair, so that they grow long beards which they curl up under their chins. If you have thought of them at all, you probably believe that they are just one of the races of India.

The truth is that their distinguishing feature is not race but religion—a Puritan religion in which each man looks upon himself as a soldier of God, and wears a steel band on his wrist to remind him of his martial faith. The Sikhs speak of themselves as the “Brotherhood of the Elect.”

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Probably you know very little about the Sikhs, although some of you may have seen them directing the traffic in Hong Kong or Singapore. They are all well-built, handsome men who wear picturesque turbans and never cut their hair, so that they grow long beards which they curl up under their chins. If you have thought of them at all, you probably believe that they are just one of the races of India.

The truth is that their distinguishing feature is not race but religion—a Puritan religion in which each man looks upon himself as a soldier of God, and wears a steel band on his wrist to remind him of his martial faith. The Sikhs speak of themselves as the “Brotherhood of the Elect.”