We fight . ' ` My sister 's brother 's son is naik -LSB- corporal -RSB- in that regiment , ' said the Sikh craftsman quietly . ` There are also some Dogra companies there . ' The soldier glared , for a Dogra is of other caste than a Sikh , and the banker tittered . ` They are all one to me , ' said the Amritzar girl . ` That we believe , ' snorted the cultivator 's wife malignantly . ` Nay , but all who serve the Sirkar with weapons in their hands are , as it were , one brotherhood . There is one brotherhood of the caste , but beyond that again ' -- she looked round timidly -- ` the bond of the Pulton -- the Regiment -- eh ? ' ` My brother is in a Jat regiment , ' said the cultivator . ` Dogras be good men . ' ` Thy Sikhs at least were of that opinion , ' said the soldier , with a scowl at the placid old man in the corner . ` Thy Sikhs thought so when our two companies came to help them at the Pirzai Kotal in the face of eight Afridi standards on the ridge not three months gone . ' He told the story of a Border action in which the Dogra companies of the Ludhiana Sikhs had acquitted themselves well . The Amritzar girl smiled ; for she knew the talk was to win her approval . ` Alas ! ' said the cultivator 's wife at the end . ` So their villages were burnt and their little children made homeless ? ' ` They had marked our dead . They paid a great payment after we of the Sikhs had schooled them . So it was .
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Afridi Amritzar Dogra Jat Kotal Pulton Sikh Sikhs cultivator months