"It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda, defying the age-long conventions of the Hindu society, made his followers one, by breaking down all barriers of caste and thereby made them free to inherit the true blessings of a self-respecting manhood. Sikhism has a brave message to the people and it has a noble record."
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Letter to Mahadevi Desai, 4 January 1937. Quoted in The Essential Tagore, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941
bengalischer Dichter und Philosoph
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