As a matter of fact, no other class} of the people of India leave their country to travel so much as the Sikhs. They are independent in thought and religion and so more venturesome than others of their countrymen. Years ago there abode in the district of the Punjab and men.
Their very adaptation to life in such a totally different environment as China is from their own shows their steadiness. They live in Chinese houses. But they live as they did in their homes in the Punjab. Their most important article of food is ghi, a: sort of clarin fied butter, without which they could not, it seems, live. It comes in tins, huge shipments of it, from India.
They have established two temples in Shanghai and these serve as caravanserais where an Indian may put up when newly arrived. One guru wata as a temple is called, is on Gordon Road, another on North Szechuan Road. It is from) here that orders are sent to India for ghi and also for many other articles of their native foods and clothing.
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