The kitchen at the Gurdwara Sahib Petaling Jaya (GSPJ) continues to cook up a storm on the fourth day of the flood relief work with the help of Malaysians who
In the 1960s, Kuala Lumpur’s High Street Police Station was manned almost entirely by Sikh policemen. Photo: Datuk Dr Surender Singh Cheema
The Sikh community has long played a crucial role in the development of this country. In the old days, Sikh bullock carters provided pivotal transport services, which boosted early tin mining and rubber industries.
From a pioneer immigrant generation starting off as policemen, soldiers, watchmen (
jaga), milk men and mining labourers, many Sikhs in Malaysia are now professionals, academics, high-ranking civil servants and top businessmen.
“Able-bodied Sikhs also played an important role in policing British Malaya, North Borneo, and Sarawak and thereby contributed to the preservation of law and order, which was a prerequisite for economic development, ” says Ranjit Singh Malhi, 66, a historian and author.