Rohtas is about 200 kilometres from Lahore on M2 motorway towards Rawalpindi. Unknown to most people, the town has a historical Gurdwara Sahib commemorating the visit of Guru Nanak while he was on one of his Udasis.
This Janamsakhi is the only document which provides valuable details of last years of Guru Nanak when he stayed at Kartarpur. Guru Nanak travelled and reached Shergarh town. The township had a spiritually enlightened faqir...
If Banda had committed Muslim carnage in Punjab he would not had got support from Punjabi Muslims. 5000 Muslims join Banda. Most of them were farmers but they were others as well.
Commemorating the 300 years of martyrdom of 'rebel' Banda Singh Bahadur and 700 Sikhs at Delhi in 1716 by the Mughal authorities, this is a review of the sack of Sirhind by Banda in 1710.
Banda is an enigma and intriguing character for all his 'virtues' and 'sins'. Early Sikh historians accuse him of going against Guru Gobind Singh Ji's instructions namely to remain single and no to style himself as a king.
The Ladakh & Tibetan campaign of Zorawar Singh and subsequent treaty has very important ramifications. It formed the basis of the McMohan Line, the border agreed by British India and Tibet in 1914.
Vilayatvali Janamsakhi, records a beautiful conversation between Guru Ji and Shaikh Ibrahim. During those times holy men used to express their feelings in verse.
The difference between Sikh and Hindu practices are obvious and well documented over the past 140 years. Following the annexation of Punjab and loss of royal patronage, the number of Sikhs started to decline rapidly.
"The Hindu Shahi dynasty is now extinct, and of the whole house there is no longer the slightest remnant in existence. We must say that, in all their grandeur, they never slackened in the ardent desire of doing that which is good and right, that they were men of noble sentiment and bearing."
Since the turbulent times of 1980s, Sikhs have been confronting number of issues in relation to their identity and past 'mistakes' have been highlighted...