Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1: The Everlasting City. Chapter 2: In the Master's Service. Chapter 3: Survival of the Fittest. Chapter 4: The Rise of the Bookeeper. Chapter 5: The Sikh Threat. Chapter 6: Building the Master's Shrine. Chapter 7: Intrigues at the Heart of Hazoor Sahib. Chapter 8: The End of an Era. Chapter 9: Reining in the Sikhs. Chapter 10: The Eyes & Ears of Empire. Chapter 11: The Return of the Boy-king. Chapter 12: Hill of Treasure. Chapter 13: Sacrificial Lamb at the Altar of Development. Endnotes. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Index. Acknowledgments & Picture Credits.
NIDAR SINGH NIHANG is widely acknowledged as India's last great swordsman and an exponent of Sikh battlefield traditions. He has lectured and contributed to several television documentaries, radio programmes and publications on the subject. PARMJIT SINGH is an independent researcher, historian and curator specialising in Sikh history. He has worked as special consultant for the BBC, The Discovery Channel, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, British Library and Wallace Collection.
'A beautiful production - a precious collector's item which I will treasure' - Khushwant Singh, author of History of the Sikhs. 'Fascinating!' - William Dalrymple, author of The Last Mughal. 'Immensely readable... the first ever study that has been written of the shrine of Guru Gobind Singh in present day Maharashtra.' - Susan Stronge, Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK. 'Comprehensive research' - The Tribune, Punjab. 'A fabulous achievement... Hazoor Sahib takes us into a lost world of Sikh history. We are in the presence not only of the Master - but of world class scholarship and research.' - Christy Campbell, author of The Maharajah's Box. 'What a treasure-chest of a book! Nidar Singh Nihang and Parmjit Singh's timely new book In the Master's Presence: the Sikhs of Hazoor Sahib combines fascinating and deeply informed text with an abundance of superbly reproduced images - many of them previously unpublished. (These include the earliest known painted portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.) This aesthetically and historically rich volume celebrates an important and under-acknowledged strand of Sikh tradition at a time when it is at risk as never before.' - Professor Eleanor Nesbitt, University of Warwick, UK. '[The authors] do remarkable work in cataloguing the history of the Deccani Sikhs...' - World Sikh News.
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