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The Sikhs in History (The Sikhs in History, 2005)

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Sangat Singh uses a detailed account of historical events, recurringly supported by references to listed external documentation, to help the reader understand how Sikhism came to be, and how it's adherents, the Sikhs, have participated in, and have been subject to, the events that have made up the last 500 years of history in the Greater Punjab region of South Asia.

Questions ranging from the history of Guru Nanak, the bringer of the Sikh message to humanity, are considered along with other detailed commentary on more recent events such as:

- Operation Bluestar during Mrs. Indra Gandhi's reign, when genocide was undertaken in Punjab by the Hindustani government; - The events which transpired in the Punjab leading up to Partition of India into Hindustan and Pakistan, with a harsh splitting up of the Punjab; - The creation of government-sponsored terrorist groups by the Hindustan Congress, leading to the RAW-sponsored terrorist bombing of an Air India Toronto-Delhi Boeign 747 flight over the Atlantic Ocean.

In "The Sikhs in History", other aspects of history from the Sikh perspective are described, such as: - The gradual introduction of non-Sikh Brahminical doctrine into the sangat (the community of Sikhs) and how this has influenced the present day community of Sikhs into adopting a more non-Sikh Hindu communal philosophy; - Detailed accounts of the lives of the first 10 Sikh Gurus, their accomplishments, and their setbacks;

Sangat Singh does not skip a beat as he takes the reader through every stage in history where Sikhs have been involved, providing references for his facts with every new development. The mind that questions what Sikhism is, and why Sikhs and Sikhism seem to be two distant notions from each other, will surely want to have this book as a reference on thier bookshelf.

The best book on Sikh history I have read. I think it is back in print again. Sangat Singh has inside knowlege on the anti Sikh activities of the Indian Government which to his credit he exposes.