For the same reason it attracts low-caste Hindus, for though it does not ostentatiously denounce or defy caste, it has the courage to ignore it.
Though the Arya leaders are generally men of education and sometimes of great culture, they know how to present their creed in a popular form that appeals to the lower classes and especially to the agricultural population.

One of the most unpleasant features has been the propaganda carried on by them among the Sepoys of the Native Army, and especially among the Jats and the Sikhs, with whom they have many points of affinity.

The efforts of the Aryas seem to be chiefly directed to checking enlistment, but they have at times actually tampered with the loyalty of certain regiments, and their emissaries have been found within the lines of the native troops.

Sikhism itself is at the present day undergoing a fresh process of transformation.

Whilst it tends generally to be reabsorbed into Hinduism, the very remarkable movement for sinking the old class distinctions--themselves a survival of caste--and recognizing the equality of all Sikhs, is clearly due to the influence of the Arya Samaj.