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Show India's Sikhs Honor Their Royal Martyrs x xxx x xx Nx r xx x- n v ;!x X,.' mpvi 1 - x . , ? x K, tsSK 'i'' x. v i ,k ' x - 4 j The Sikhs are the warriors of "Mother India." Leader of the 5 million is the Maharajah of Patiala, 33, of the state of Patiala. On December 27 they staged a great festival to honor the founder of their religion. Guru Gobind Singh, and his two sons who became martyrs. The story goes that the sons of Guru were taken and held hostage by Moslems in an attempt to force their father to give up his religion, lie refused, and the Moslems built a tomb around the seven and nine-year-old boys, burying them alive. Center shows the Maharajah, shoeless, carrying the first basket of earth from the site of the new shrine. Right shows the warriors in colorful contingent. |