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William Hewat McLeod (1932–2009; also Hew McLeod) was a New Zealand scholar who helped establish Sikh Studies as a distinctive field. [1] [2]Considered to be the most prominent Western historian of Sikhism, his publications had introduced higher criticism to Sikh sources for the first time and influenced generations of scholars.
The Sikhs were brought to Delhi in a procession with the 780 Sikh prisoners, 2,000 Sikh heads hung on spears, and 700 cartloads of heads of slaughtered Sikhs used to terrorise the population. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] They were put in the Delhi fort and pressured to give up their faith and become Muslims. [ 76 ]
The Sikh Reference Book is his magnum opus. [4] The Sikh Reference Book is an encyclopedia consisting of more than 2400 biographies, a chronology of Sikh history, 400 concepts of Sikh philosophy, and 800 Sikh shrines. He has produced a Sikh Encyclopedia CD-ROM.
Ratan Singh Bhangu (ca.1785 – 10 February 1846 [1]: 17 ) was a Sikh historian and Nihang who wrote about the Sikhs' struggles and rise to power in North India, in his book Prachin Panth Prakash. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This work describes how the Sikh people came to dominate Punjab in the 1700s and remains one of the few historical accounts of the era.
"The Rise of the Honorable Guru Panth/Sikh Community"), [1] is a historical text about Sikh history in the 1700s by Rattan Singh Bhangu and was completed in the early 1810s. [ note 1 ] [ 2 ] The text's opening foundation briefly covers the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus, then traces the accomplishments of the Sikh community from 1708 to the ...
A few Sikh groups have put pressure on universities to stifle academic criticism of popular Sikh literature and theories of Sikh history. [21] In the early 1990s, Pashaura Singh, an academic of the Macleodian school, was campaigned against for challenging the authenticity of Guru Granth Sahib. Singh was pressured to withdraw sections of his thesis.
Sikh victory: Battle of Jammu (1808) Sikh Empire: Dogra Rajput: Sikh victory: Gurkha-Sikh War (1809) Sikh Empire: Kingdom of Nepal: Sikh victory: Siege of Multan (1810) Sikh Empire: Durrani Empire: Sikh victory: Battle of Bhimber (1812) Sikh Empire: Chibhal: Chibhal victory: Battle of Anandpur (1812) Sikh Empire: Kahlur: Sikh victory: Afghan ...
Sikh Militancy in the Seventeenth Century: Religious Violence in Mughal and Early Modern India. Vol. 4 of Library of South Asian history and culture. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350160996. Singh, Ishwar (19 September 2022). The Brief History of Budha Dal: From the Establishment of Akal Sena to the Creation of Budha Dal. Notion Press.