CHANDIGARH: Around 1880, a reformist movement had started within Sikhs and one of its core characters was to work against caste discrimination.
In his book, The Gurdwara Reform And The Sikh Awakening, first published in 1922, Principal Teja Singh, a participant in the movement who observed things from close quarters, wrote: “It is a significant fact that, while all other communities at that time felt the inspiration for reform from the Western education the Sikhs’ first attempts at reform were the result of their own inherent genius. ”
