A Historian’s Approach to Guru Gobind Singh

by: Surjit Singh Gandhi (Principal)


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  • Hardback
  • ISBN: 81-7205-306-1
  • Edition(s): Mar-2004 / 1st
  • Pages: 533
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The present work is a comprehensive and analytical study of the life of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. It is an objective account of his response to the contemporary spiritual, polity, his attitude towards Muslims as well as Hindu orthodoxy, his floating of the Order of Khalsa, a new model of man as well as of society, his providing of fresh insights and fresh stimuli to make the people dynamic, forward-looking and transcendental in their approach and out-look.
  • Heritage / 15
  • Early Life in Bihar / 65
  • At Anandpur / 79
  • Paonta Period / 124
  • The Battle of Bhangani / 145
  • Return to Anandpur 1688 / 156
  • Emergence of the Khalsa / 189
  • Allenged Worship of Goddess Durga / 241
  • Onslaught of Hindu Conservatism and Islam Imperialism / 251
  • The Guru’s Escape Towards Malwa / 278
  • Damdama Period / 303
  • From Damdama to Agra / 316
  • From Agra to Nanded / 331
  • Culmination and Beginning / 364
  • A Multidimensional Personality / 376
  • Guru Gobind Singh’s Literary Activities / 391

Part-2

Guru Gobind Singh’s Vision of Metaphysics, Polity and Social Ideal

  • God, Universe and Man / 419
  • Sikh Polity / 443
  • Sikh Social Ideals / 467
  • Epilogue / 484

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