A
Sikh soldier Umr Singh, who was a servant of Kurban Sahib wants to go back to his
mother country India. Umr Singh served
in the British Army for a long time and now he is old. Although Umr Singh held
the position of trooper in the British army, he clung to his Kurban sahib and did
all kinds of choruses for him like cooking and other tasks. Kurban Sahib died
three months ago. The relationship between Kurbaan Sahib and Umr Singh was so
intense and that they broke the ideological differences and became good
friends. At one moment, Kurbaan Sahib decided to go back to England but after
sometimes he rejoined the contingent of British army. Despite returning to
England, Kurban Sahib always remembered his Indian soldiers and when he
rejoined the British army he curiously searched for them. Umr Singh and Kurbaan
Sahib knowingly got themselves transferred from India to Capetown to become
eyewitness of the Boer war.
Kipling
advocates that either a nation rules or being ruled; it cannot be ruler and
ruled at the same time. It is provocative statement from Umr Singh underscores
the glorious era of British rule in South Africa and prestige earned by
Englishmen.
Boer
war accounts disseminates across continents via writing records and memoirs of
Indian soldiers went into the battle. Mostly the people fighting in the Boer
war adopted gorilla techniques pretending to be in peace with white flags on
their houses but shooting the English soldiers at night. Farmers, women and
children wear soldiers uniform. Untrained people were battling with the British
soldiers.
