11. AKHBAR DARBAR LAHORE,

AKHBAR DARBAR LAHORE, an unpublished collection of 92 letters, reports, notes and summaries of events connected with the second Anglo Sikh war, 1848-49. The manuscript, in Persian, is preserved in Dr Ganda Singh Collection at Punjabi University, Pati...

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12. AKHBAR-I-DARBAR-I-MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH,

AKHBAR-I-DARBAR-I-MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH, also called AkhbariDeorhi Sardar Ranjit Singh Bahadur, is a set of Persian manuscripts comprising 193 loose sheets of unequal size and containing, as the title indicates, news of the court of Maharaja Ranjit S...

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13. AKHBAR LUDHIANA

AKHBAR LUDHIANA, a weekly newspaper in Persian sponsored by the British NorthWest Frontier Agency at Ludhiana in November 1834. The paper, a fourpage sheet initially, but doubling its size within two years, started printing at the American Missionary...

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14. ALAHNIAN

ALAHNIAN, Guru Nanak's composition in measure Vadahans in the Guru Granth Sahib. Alahni, generally used in its plural form alahnian, is a dirge wailingly sung in chorus by women mourning the death of a relation. Etymologically, the word means an utte...

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15. AMAR KATHA,

AMAR KATHA, of unknown authorship, comprises a mixture of diverse hagiographic traditions bearing on the life of Guru Nanak. The work remains unpublished, but several manuscripts are known to exist: for instance, two of them, dated AD 1818 and 1872, ...

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