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  1. Sicques, tigers or thieves is a very valuable book having historical accounts on Sikhs from 1606 to 1810. It can be bought at https://www.amazon.com/Sicques-Tigers-Thieves-Eyewitness-1606-1810/dp/1403962022 It's contents and introduction can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-137-11998-8%2F1.pdf In the introduction it's written: Of more concern, and a practice that would now be abhorrent, is the noted practice of forcing Muslim converts into the Sikh faith to take a form of amrit which includes pig blood. Variants of this observation record that Muslims are made to wear a boar's tusk as an amulet or to eat pork. This is an extremely unorthodox practice that has not survived into modern times and has no doctrinal roots. It is not known to have existed into the nine- teenth century, which would imply that it was introduced in the mid- to late eighteenth century as a practical measure for a particular set of circum-stances, possibly to counter the threat to survival arising from the high risk of infiltration by opposing forces. To detract any interlopers into the faith, especially those from the enemy camps who were predominately Muslim, the Sikhs may well have adopted a form of truth test by forcing the convert to defY the most basic practice of their former faith. Du Perron, while describ-ing the ceremony of initiation, provides perhaps the most practical reason, centering on the necessary change of beliefs for the new initiate: "Then the senior Siks give them food to eat, and all that they eat is stirred with the tooth of a wild boar. This latter ceremony is especially done to a Musulman who becomes Sik in order that he no longer feel repugnance towards pork."
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