Au XVIIIe siècle, les dirigeants de l'Empire tyrannique moghol interdisaient à la population de devenir un sikh et ordonnaient à quiconque pouvait trouver un sikh de lui couper la tête et de l'échanger à un poste de police contre environ une année de salaire.
During the 18th century becoming a Sikh was against the law of the land ruled by oppressive Mughal rulers who ordered that anyone who could find a Sikh could chop his head off and could exchange that head at any police station for about one year's wages.