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What is the Sikh perspective on treatment of criminals? How would Sikhs deal with convicted criminals for example during reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh?

Would it best compare with British, American, sharia or current Indian system? Would there be capital punishment? 

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1 hour ago, dallysingh101 said:

I introduced to our distinguished guests. Col. Wade and Dr. Murray, an Akalee or Nahung, whose nose, ears and

hands had been cut off by order of Runjeet Sing (he had even deserved the gallows ), and whose nose had been so

well restored in the mountains that we were all surprised,and confessed it could not have been better done in Europe.

As we know, from history, this operation was even in the remotest antiquity, practised by the Hindoos ; and they

fermed the nose out of the cuticle of the forehead, which proceeding is now, and always will be the same. In Europe,

where cutting off of noses is only in use, in exceptional cases — as when ulceration or other circumstances make it

requisite — this operation is usually performed with the cuticle of the arm, and judiciously too, as, according to our

custom, the head mostly is uncovered, and a scar on one's forehead, with a new nose on the face, makes rather an ugly

appearance ; whilst, in the East, the scar remains hidden beneath the turban.

This is an interesting quote. Is it talking about a rhinoplasty (nose reconstruction)?

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24 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Yep. Apparently they've ('Indians') been experts at it for centuries even by that point. If I recall rightly Alberuni (the first Arab person to document Indic culture) even mentions it?

Yh i think the first nose reconstruction was done by an Indian surgeon

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