This pictorial edition of A History of the Sikhs has updated and edited the most comprehensive two-volume book on the community. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general audience, it is based on scholarly archival research of original documents in Persian, Gurmukhi and English. It examines the social, religious and political background which led to the formation of the Sikh faith in the fifteenth century. The transformation of the Sikhs from a pacifist sect to a militant group called the Khalsa led by Guru Gobind Singh is portrayed in detail, as is the relationship of the Sikhs with the Mughals and the Afghans, until the consolidation of Sikh power under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The continuing Sikh struggle for survival as a separate community marked by the demand for a distinct Sikh state has been chronicled, until the events leading up to and following Operation Blue Star when the Indian army entered the Golden Temple. The edition includes an epilogue that analyses events following the end of terrorism in Punjab and the achievement of the community's aspirations never more visible than in the elevation of a Sikh to the country's Prime Ministership.
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This is a pictorial edition of A History of the Sikhs, 1469-1839(vol 1), 1839-2004 (vol 2). Edited and updated into a single volume, it highlights significant movements, issues, people, and events in the history of the Sikhs. The text is supplemented by over 100 photographs.
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PREFACE, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, PART I THE PUNJAB AND THE BIRTH OF SIKHISM 1. THE SIKH HOMELAND, 2. BIRTH OF SIKHISM, 3. BUILDING OF THE SIKH CHURCH, 4. THE CALL TO ARMS; 5. FROM THE PACIFIST SIKH TO THE MILITANT KHALSA. PART II THE AGRARIAN UPRISING 6. THE RISE AND FALL OF BANDA BAHADUR; 7. PERSECUTION OF THE SIKHS AND THE REORGANISATION OF THE KHALSA ARMY; 8. AHMED SHAH ABDALI AND THE SIKHS; 9. FROM THE INDUS TO THE GANGES, PART III PUNJAB MONARCHY AND IMPERIALISM 10. RISE OF THE SUKERCHAKIA MISL, 11. MAHARAJA OF THE PUNJAB; 12. SUZERAIN OF MALWA; 13. BRITISH ANNEXATION OF MALWA: TREATY OF LAHORE, 1809; 14. CONSOLIDATION OF THE PUNJAB. PART IV FALL OF THE SIKH KINGDOM 15. THE PUNJAB ON THE DEATH OF RANJIT SINGH, 16. FIRST ANGLO-SIKH WAR; 17. THE PUNJAB UNDER BRITISH OCCUPATION; 18. SECOND ANGLO-SIKH WAR; PART V CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER IN THE PUNJAB 19. ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB; 20. CRESCAT E FLUVIIS. PART VI SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS REFORM 21. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS; 22. SINGH SABH; A; AND SOCIAL REFORM; PART VII POLITICAL MOVEMENTS: MARXIST, NATIONAL, AND SECTARIAN 23. RURAL INDEBTEDNESS AND PEASANT AGITATION; 24. WORLD WAR I AND ITS AFTERMATH; 25. XENOPHOBIC MARXISM; 26. GURDWARA REFORM: RISE OF THE AKALI IMMORTALS PART VIII POLITICS OF PARTITION: INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEMAND FOR A SIKH HOMELAND 27. SIKHS AND WORLD WAR II (1939-1945); 28. PRELUDE TO THE PARTITION OF INDIA; 29. CIVIL STRIFE, EXODUS, AND RESETTLEMENT, 30. A SATE OF THEIR OWN; 31. PROSPERITY AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM; 32. THE ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION AND OTHER AKALI DEMANDS; 33. FATAL MISCALCULATION; 34. ASSASSINATION AND AFTER; 35. ELECTIONS AND THE ACCORD; 36. FOREIGN CONNECTIONS AND KHALISTAN. 37. EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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ISBN
9780195677478
Publisert
2006
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP India
Vekt
1244 gr
Høyde
283 mm
Bredde
228 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
292

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