The Punjabi Republic of Workers and Peasants (also called PRWP, Punjabi Workers' Republic, PWR) has its roots in the 1920s, when radical Communism swept through the Sikh Punjabi community. A number of thinkers and ideologues (names unknown but no doubt named Singh :)) articulated key points of contact between traditional Sikhism and revolutionary Communism: the repudiation of the caste system, the forging of an internationally applicable system of beliefs, and the subservience of the individual to serve the group. Traditional misls were linked to militant cells, the vanguard of the coming Revolution.