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ZAFARNAMAH
Tags: thou, singh, guru, zafarnamah, faith, letter, gobind, emperor, verse, aurangzib, verses, kings
ZAFARNAMAH, Guru Gobind Singh's letter in Persian verse addressed to Emperor Aurangzib included in the Dasam Granth. The word zafarnamah is a compound of Arabic zafar, meaning victory, and Persian namah, meaning letter. Zafarnamah thus means a...
ZAFARNAMAH MU lN UL-MULK
Tags: shah, mulk, ahmad, lahore, punjab, durrani, governor, 1748, book, author, delhi, emperor
ZAFARNAMAH MU'IN UL-MULK, an unpublished manuscript, is a book written in 1748-49 by Ghulam Muhaiy ud-Din Khan. It gives an account of Ahmad Shah Durrani's first two invasions of India. Copies of the manuscript are available at the University of the...
ZAFARNAMAH SAHIB GURUDWARA
Tags: sahib, zafarnamah, guru, gurdwara, literally, wrote, tradition, letter, victory, allaboutsikhs, local, singh
ZAFARNAMAH SAHIB - It is a Gurdwara, at village Dialpura Bhai Ka, built in the memory of the visit by Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. According to a local tradition, it is here that Guru Sahib wrote Zafarnamah (literally: letter of victory); hence the name...
ZAFARNAMAH-I-RANJIT SINGH
Tags: singh, ranjit, nath, amar, author, maharaja, part, book, zafarnamah, sikh, gorkhas, work
ZAFARNAMAH-I-RANJIT SINGH (A Chronicle of the Victories of Ranjit Singh), by Diwan Amar Nath, is a contemporary account in Persian of the events of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's reign from AD 1800 to AD 1837. Amar Nath, born in 1822, was the son of Diwan...
ZAFARNAMAH-I-RANJlT SINGH
Tags: singh, persian, kanhaiya, zafarnamah, ranjit, maharaja, lahore, account, panjab, punjab, conquests, heroes
ZAFARNAMAH-I-RANJlT SINGH, subtitled Ranjhnamah, by Kanhaiya Lal is an account in Persian verse of the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his successors, covering the period 1799-1849. The manuscript copies of the work are preserved in Panjab...
ZAIL SINGH, GIANI
Tags: singh, giani, zail, minister, punjab, india, faridkot, political, raja, states, patiala, village
ZAIL SINGH, GIANI (1916-1994), the first Punjabi to become President of the Republic of India, was born on 5 May 1916, the son of Bhai Kishan Singh and Mata Ind Kaur, a Ramgarhia couple of a small village, Sandhvan, near Kot Kapura, in the princely...
ZAIN KHAN
Tags: singh, sikhs, khan, zain, sirhind, ahluvalia, jassa, khalsa, sikh, 1764, delhi, patiala
ZAIN KHAN (d. 1764), an Afghan, was appointed governor of Sirhind in March 1761 by Ahmad Shah Durrani. Earlier he had acted as Faujdar of Char Mahal the four districts of Sialkot, Gujrat, Pasrur and Aurarigabad. This was from 1759 when Karim Dad...
ZAKARIYA KHAN
Tags: sikhs, singh, khan, sikh, lahore, zakariya, delhi, tlie, governor, government, rupees, police
ZAKARIYA KHAN (d. 1745), who replaced his father 'Abd us-Samad Khan as governor of Lahore in 1726, had earlier acted as governor of Jammu (1713-20) and of Kashmir (1720-26). He liad also taken part in Lahore government's operations against the Sikh...
ZINDAGI NAMAH
Tags: guru, nand, bhai, namah, book, singh, zindagi, true, couplets, human, life, poet
ZINDAGI NAMAH, a book of pious poetry in Persian by Bhai Nand Lal Goya, an honoured Sikh of Guru Gobind Singh, whose name continues to be remembered with affection and esteem. A distinction which uniquely belongs to him is that his verse can be sung...
ZOBEIR RAHAMA
Tags: singh, zobeir, duleep, maharaja, cairo, freedom, friends, india, turban, father, jasvant, called
ZOBEIR RAHAMA (1830-1913), Egyptain pasha and Sudanese governor whose name is mentioned in connection with the campaign for the restoration of Maharaja Duleep Singh to the throne of the Punjab, was a member of a family which claimed descent from the...

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