[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c19.81 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.81 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.81 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.81) Now at last an irreconcilable breach took place between the Sikhs and Islām. Govind Singh, the tenth and last of the Gurūs, was not a man to leave his father's death unavenged. He organised the sect into the most dangerous and implacable enemy of the Mughul empire and of the Muslim faith. All his thoughts were directed to turning the Sikhs into soldiers, to the exclusion of every other aim. He constantly drilled his followers, gave them a distinctive dress and a new oath of baptism, and began a course of open hostility to Islām. - [Previous: v4.c19.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.80) - [Next: v4.c19.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.82) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.81) · Pramāṇa