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Life and Work of Guru Arjan

History, Memory, and Biography in the Sikh Tradition

by Pashaura Singh

A full scholarly study of the fifth Sikh Guru, weighing Persian, Jesuit and Sikh sources on his life, his compilation of the Adi Granth and his execution at Lahore in 1606. It also traces how his martyrdom was remembered and reinterpreted in later Sikh tradition.

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