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I think they wanted to bring the Sikh nation to their knees because they were afraid and realized they would never truly be victorious unless they could promote scriptural texts that compromised the clarity and simplicity of Sri Guru Granth Sahib by making Sikhs, and their leaders, look like hypocrites and fools.Dr. Baldev Singh has even written that their agenda in part was to make Sikh men seem so morally misguided that they could effectively castrate them, diminish their manhood and sense of dignity, which came accompanied with pride and fierce loyalty to a principled philosophy rather than enslavement to old gods and ideas.They were just picking up where the Moghuls left off. Think about how that would work.
I think they wanted to bring the Sikh nation to their knees because they were afraid and realized they would never truly be victorious unless they could promote scriptural texts that compromised the clarity and simplicity of Sri Guru Granth Sahib by making Sikhs, and their leaders, look like hypocrites and fools.
Dr. Baldev Singh has even written that their agenda in part was to make Sikh men seem so morally misguided that they could effectively castrate them, diminish their manhood and sense of dignity, which came accompanied with pride and fierce loyalty to a principled philosophy rather than enslavement to old gods and ideas.
They were just picking up where the Moghuls left off. Think about how that would work.
