| Sikh Akalis
at Amritsar
"....
a party of Akhalees (fanatics) on foot stopped and fought
us, in some instances very fiercely. One fine bold 'Nihung'
beat off four sowars one after another, and kept them all
at bay. I then went at him myself, fearing that he would
kill one of them. He instantly rushed to meet me like a
tiger, closed with me, yelling 'Wah Gooroo ji', and accompanying
each shout with a terrific blow of his tulwar. I guarded
the three or four first, but he pressed so closely to my
horse's rein that I could not get a fair cut in return.
At length I pressed in my turn upon him so sharply that
he missed his blow, and I caught it from him, and cut him
down with the right, having received no further injury than
a severe cut across the fingers; I never beheld such desperation
and fury in my life. It was not human scarcely..."
- Twelve years of a soldier's life in India, William Hodson
(1859)
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