The Sikhs

The SikhsBy: Patwant Singh First Printed in 1999, this is the 17th edition printed by Rupa & Co in 2021. It is a new soft book.. Size: 8. 5" x 5. 5" 312 pages. Patwant Singh does a remarkable job of telling Sikh history as the formative context of our people, showing how the unfolding events of history have marked and defined us. From the birth of Guru Nanak through partition of the Punjab in 1948 to the pogroms of New Delhi in 1984, Patwant Singh recounts

While in jail he lived only on parched gram for months on end

nearly 120 years after the death of Guru Nanak in 1539

Predictions in the Dasam Granth

Pages: 314

The sheer scale of the killings exceeded the combined civilian death tolls of the conflict in Northern Ireland

she is forever liberated from the aches and illusions of life

The book begins with a short introduction explaining the tradition of Battle Honours and goes on to explain the origins of the Nishan Sahib

This extensive history of Sikhism covers the entire period of Guru Nanak through Banda Singh Bahadur in chronological order

Edited by Gurbhagat Singh and Jasbir Kaur

and was written by Guru Gobind Singh to Aurangzeb at the height of oppression by the Mughal regime in 1705

the great warrior-poet who bravely brought the head of Guru Tegh Bahadur back to Anandpur Sahib after his martyrdom in Delhi

If you have not read a book on Sikh History before - this is the one to buy