In the Punjab, too,
several men of leading were converted. Among them may-
be named Shamaun, a Sikh priest in Amritsar ; Abdulla
Athim, who had been a leader in Mohammedan controversy
in Karachi, and rose to be an extra Assistant Commissioner
under the Punjab Government ; and Dilawar Khan, who
had been a brigand on the border, and afterwards became an
officer in the ftimous corps of the Guides, a fact which shows
how far the Government had travelled since the days of the
Meerut Sepoy in its attitude towards the conversion of a
member of the native army.
