"Their houses were plundered, wealth destroyed, their heads shaven, urinated upon, publicly paraded, jeered upon, beat…"

"They told me further, that some years after this book of Naneek Shah had been promulgated, another made its appearanc…"

"The Sikh literati which emerged under the shadow of the Raj were powerfully influenced by the European discourse on t…"

"Those who represented the reformist sector of the Singh Sabha movement came to be known as the Tat Khalsa (the ‘True …"

"A most spectacular sign of the success of popular opposition to Tat Khalsa hegemony comes from the domain of festive …"

"Finally, a sustained campaign was launched to prevent Sikhs from taking part in festivals like Holi and Diwali. These…"

"Long after the monsoons cease in the plains of northern India and half the lunar year is over, there comes the widely…"

"But people refused to abandon festivities linked inextricably to the agrarian cycle and north Indian culture.° To ren…"

"The figure who pre-eminently draws these themes together in a single episode is that most famous of all Sikh martyrs,…"

"The historiography of the Sikh experience in the nineteenth century is based on two principles, one of silence and th…"