"Brahmin priests and their idols had been associated with the Golden Temple for at least a century and had over these …"

"A new Muslim invader, Ahmad Shah Abdali, who tried to salvage the Muslim rule, had to give up after several attempts …"

"Another expression of this tendency is the induction of Muslim divines into Sikh history, e.g. the by now widespread …"

"Ahmad Shah greatly desired to subdue the Sikhs, and his army attacked and gained control of the Sikh's holy city of A…"

"The Hari Mandir, dedicated to Hari/Vishnu, is as sacred to Vaishnavas as any of their non-Sikh temples; its tank was …"

"Their plan for Amritsar City was ambitious. They wanted to keep the City beseiged, to force Hindus and Sikhs out by a…"

"Steinbach, a European ex-army officer, who worked at the Lahore Durbar for nine years, described the Golden Temple at…"

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