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Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition

Playing the "Game of Love"

by Louis E. Fenech

A study of the place of martyrdom in Sikh history and memory, from the deaths of Guru Arjan and Guru Tegh Bahadur to the eighteenth century and its later retelling. Fenech examines how martyr narratives shaped Sikh identity.

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