"The National Guards were provided with army helmets purchased from the Military Disposal Department and many of them were given firearms They wore uniforms and were taught army drill Group physical training was also undertaken by members of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh on an increasing scale though there 1s no evidence of the members of this organization possessing any arms at this stage During December 1946 and January 1947 processions of National Guards in military formation began to parade the streets of Lahore, shouting provocative slogans This display of what can only be called a hostile private army compelled the Punjab Government to declare the National Guards and the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh unlawful bodies on January 24, 1947 The Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh submitted to the order and allowed its premises to be searched and locked up, but the Muslim National Guards took up a refractory attitude and, when the police arrived at their Lahore headquarters, they offered resistance."
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Khosla G. D. (1989). Stern reckoning : a survey of the events leading up to and following the partition of india. Oxford University Press. 95ff
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