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en-wikipedia-org-598		Criticism of Sikhism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5078	703	69	He had been collaborating with granthis of the Nirmala sect, which interpreted Sikh scripture from within a Brahminical framework.[2] The Nirmalas and Udasis had risen to prominence at the expense of the mainstream Khalsa in the eighteenth century, which had been experiencing increased Mughal persecution in the 1700s that forced it to cede control of Sikh shrines to sects without external identifying articles, and subsequently focused on political sovereignty.[2] He found that the Sikh granthis who recited the text in the early 1870s lacked comprehension and its sense of meaning.[1] He stated that "as a result of their warlike manner of life and the troubled times,"[3] that "Sikhs had lost all learning" and the granthis were misleading.[1] Even for Sikhs the language of the Guru Granth Sahib is considered archaic and hard to understand without an interpreter, especially in relation to important but complex ideas.[4] According to Tony Ballantyne, Ernest Trumpp's insensitive approach such as treating the Sikh scripture as a mere book and blowing cigar smoke over its pages while studying the text, did not endear him to the Sikh granthis who regarded it as an embodiment of the Gurus.[1]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-598.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-598.txt