Access to them is readily given to Hindus and Sikhs who have not actually joined the Samaj.

They are attracted by the political discussions which are carried on there with great freedom, and having no such resorts of their own, they are soon tempted to obtain the fuller privileges of membership.

In this way the Samaj has made many converts among the educated classes and even among native officials.

But its influence is by no means confined to them.

It makes many converts among the Sikhs, and not a few among _Nau-Muslims_ or Mahomedans who have embraced Islam in relatively recent times and mainly for the purpose of escaping from the tyranny of caste.