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When Sparrows Became Hawks

The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699–1799

by Purnima Dhavan

A history of the eighteenth-century Khalsa that examines how Sikh warrior bands, rural society and Khalsa ideology shaped one another. Dhavan shows how the martial identity of the Khalsa was forged in the decades after Guru Gobind Singh.

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