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Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Guru Gobind Singh's Bani, Bhai Gurdas and the early Sikh literature, Eighteenth century Literature, Nineteenth century Literature, Writings by non-Sikhs on Sikhs and Punjab, Literature in the Singh Sabha movement, Modern works on Sikhs and Sikhism
 
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Sikh Scriptures and Literature/Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Guru Gobind Singh's Bani
BABAR VANI (Babar's command or sway) is how the four hymns by Guru Nanak alluding to the invasions by Babar (1483-1530), the first Mughal emperor of India, are collectively known in Sikh literature. The name is derived from the use of the term in one...
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Sikh Scriptures and Literature/Nineteenth century Literature
BACHAN SAIN LOKA KE, a book of morals in Punjabi prose belonging to the Sevapanthi sect. There is no internal evidence to establish its date or authorship, but several of the bachans or sayings in this work are identical with those in Sahaj Ram's Pot...
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Sikh Scriptures and Literature/Nineteenth century Literature
BACHITRA NATAK (bachitra = marvellous, wondrous + natak = drama, play) is the name given a complex of compositions, commonly attributed to Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru or prophet teacher of the Sikh faith, assembled in his book, the Dasam Granth...
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Sikh Scriptures and Literature/Writings by non-Sikhs on Sikhs and Punjab
BAHR ULMAWWAJ (lit. stormy or tempestuous sea), also known as Akhbar usSalatin, is a comprehensive work on Muslim history divided into nine parts and 49 sections fancifully called bahr (sea) and waves (mauJ) respectively, and hence the title. Its las...
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Sikh Scriptures and Literature/Nineteenth century Literature
BAINTAN SHER SINGH KIAN, by Nihal Singh, is a poem dealing with some gruesome events from the history of the Sikhs murders in 1843 of the Sikh monarch Maharaja Sher Singh, his young son Partap Singh, and minister Dhian Singh Dogra at the hands of San...
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