A History of the Sikh People     (1469-1988)

A History of the Sikh People (1469-1988)

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Author: Gopal Singh
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 860
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170231396

Description

This is the first-ever exhaustive and authoritative history of the Sikhs based on original records, both published and unpublished, available in India or abroad. It is a highly readable book whose style has an easy flow but whose intensity of feeling and sincerity of utterance cannot fail to move the reader.

It however steers clear of the hagiographic myth-making, as much as the prophets of doom who look upon the Sikh phenomenon as a momentary historical upsurge whose authenticity ad potential will soon be exhausted.

On almost every page, the reader will come across fresh information and ideas such as have not been provided by any single publication before. Almost every question raided with regard to the Sikh faith or historical events have been authoritatively answered by the celebrated author, whose first-ever English translation of the entire corpus of the Sikh scripture has won him world-wide acclaim.

Though written by a man of faith, the author’s outlook especially with regard to the Hindu-Muslim-Sikh relations throughout the past 500 years would be found highly balanced and revealing.

Having been himself a participant in the fateful political drama over the past fifty years, his eyewitness account throws much fresh light on the eventful hears of the partition of India and what led to this gruesome tragedy.

The book, first published in 1979, has been brought up-to-date and its balanced judgments and the fresh information offered, may lead to a better appreciation of the Sikh situation by all concerned.

Contents

PART I

CHAPTER I
The Background

CHAPTER II
Guru Nanak

CHAPTER III
The Sources of Guru Nanak’s biography

CHAPTER IV
Guru Nanak’s Travels

CHAPTER V
Guru Nanak as a Philosopher and a Poet

CHAPTER VI
Guru Angad Dev
Guru Amar Das
Guru Ram Das

CHAPTER VII
Guru Arjun Dev

CHAPTER VIII
Socio-political conditions of India as depicted in the Adi Granth

CHAPTER IX
Bhai Gurdas and the Sikh way of life

CHAPTER X
Guru Hargobind

CHAPTER XI
Guru Hari Rai
Guru Hari Krishan

CHAPTER XII
Guru Teg Bahadur

CHAPTER XIII
Guru Gobind Singh

PART II

CHAPTER XIV
Banda Singh Bahadur

CHAPTER XV
Life-and-death Struggle

CHAPTER XVI
The Sikh bid for peoplehood (1)

CHAPTER XVII
The Sikh bid for peoplehood (2)

CHAPTER XVIII
The Misal Period

CHAPTER XIX
The Panjab as a Sovereign state

CHAPTER XX
Ranjit Singh:
An Assessment of his character and administration

CHAPTER XXI
Sunset of the Empire

CHAPTER XXII
The Anglo-Sikh wars

CHAPTER XXIII
End of the Dynasty

CHAPTER XXIV
1857

CHAPTER XXV
Revival or Regeneration?

CHAPTER XXVI
The Sikhs fight for India’s Freedom

CHAPTER XXVII
The Rise of Muslim Nationalism

CHAPTER XXVIII
The Transfer of Power

CHAPTER XXIX
The Era of Hope

CHAPTER XXX
The Troubled Decade

Appendices I-XIV

Index