An Akalis Fanatical Devotee

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 42

“This old warrior is such a religious enthusiast that on the day on which the birthday of Govind Sinh was celebrated he clothed his pony in a pair of drawers and thus made a Sikh of him , for this article of clothing is one of the five things essential to the true Sikh.”

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