Table of Contents

PREFACE, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, PART I THE PUNJAB AND THE BIRTH OF SIKHISM 1. THE SIKH HOMELAND, 2. BIRTH OF SIKHISM, 3. BUILDING OF THE SIKH CHURCH, 4. THE CALL TO ARMS; 5. FROM THE PACIFIST SIKH TO THE MILITANT KHALSA. PART II THE AGRARIAN UPRISING 6. THE RISE AND FALL OF BANDA BAHADUR; 7. PERSECUTION OF THE SIKHS AND THE REORGANISATION OF THE KHALSA ARMY; 8. AHMED SHAH ABDALI AND THE SIKHS; 9. FROM THE INDUS TO THE GANGES, PART III PUNJAB MONARCHY AND IMPERIALISM 10. RISE OF THE SUKERCHAKIA MISL, 11. MAHARAJA OF THE PUNJAB; 12. SUZERAIN OF MALWA; 13. BRITISH ANNEXATION OF MALWA: TREATY OF LAHORE, 1809; 14. CONSOLIDATION OF THE PUNJAB. PART IV FALL OF THE SIKH KINGDOM 15. THE PUNJAB ON THE DEATH OF RANJIT SINGH, 16. FIRST ANGLO-SIKH WAR; 17. THE PUNJAB UNDER BRITISH OCCUPATION; 18. SECOND ANGLO-SIKH WAR; PART V CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER IN THE PUNJAB 19. ANNEXATION OF THE PUNJAB; 20. CRESCAT E FLUVIIS. PART VI SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS REFORM 21. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS; 22. SINGH SABH; A; AND SOCIAL REFORM; PART VII POLITICAL MOVEMENTS: MARXIST, NATIONAL, AND SECTARIAN 23. RURAL INDEBTEDNESS AND PEASANT AGITATION; 24. WORLD WAR I AND ITS AFTERMATH; 25. XENOPHOBIC MARXISM; 26. GURDWARA REFORM: RISE OF THE AKALI IMMORTALS PART VIII POLITICS OF PARTITION: INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEMAND FOR A SIKH HOMELAND 27. SIKHS AND WORLD WAR II (1939-1945); 28. PRELUDE TO THE PARTITION OF INDIA; 29. CIVIL STRIFE, EXODUS, AND RESETTLEMENT, 30. A SATE OF THEIR OWN; 31. PROSPERITY AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM; 32. THE ANANDPUR SAHIB RESOLUTION AND OTHER AKALI DEMANDS; 33. FATAL MISCALCULATION; 34. ASSASSINATION AND AFTER; 35. ELECTIONS AND THE ACCORD; 36. FOREIGN CONNECTIONS AND KHALISTAN. 37. EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Khushwant Singh is a renowned journalist, the author of several works of fiction, and an authority on Sikh history.