Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman (1908)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London T.F. Unwin · leaf 127
y matter atfirst sight, for we had to get through a closely packed andstruggling mass of human beings, which occupied theentire space between us and the door of the shrine. Butthe policemen, representatives of the irresistible powerof the Sarkar, brought us safely, and in a very fewminutes, to the… … THE GOLDEN TEMPLE OF THE SIKHS 87 use of their official batons on the turbaned heads of theirunoffending countrymen, the policemen cleared the wayfor us, without, as far as I could observe, creating thesmallest outward sign of irritation in the rnen so uncere-moniously handled. Possibly the stolid…
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