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the plebian political objectives and character of the Khalsa which
was preserved even in that post-revolutionary period when the Sikh
movement had passed into a veiled autocracy and the orthodox caste
ideology and made inroads into the Sikh society. Fortunately, the
corroborative evidence from non-Sikh sources about the plebian
political character of the movement (Chapter XI, XII and XVIII) is
sufficient enough. And this feature of the Sikh Revolution proves
ipso-facto the other main features of the movement as well. There
could have been plebian Sikh political Revolution without the Khalsa
having an egalitarian base. That means the Sikh Panth had carved out
its way across caste barriers, and this very fact was enough to separate
it from the caste society.