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Need to translate documents on Ranjit Singh’s rule, says Pak historian

Patiala, Punjab: Nearly 8,000 letters and documents written in Persian are lying at Anarkali’s Tomb in Pakistan’s Lahore city and their translation could provide an insight into the undocumented administrative and personal details of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, says art historian Fakir ...

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Akal Takht to honour Sikh historian

Chandigarh: The Akal Takht Jathedar will bestow the title of National Professor of Sikhism on Dr Kirpal Singh, an eminent historian and author of several books, including one on the Partition, early next week. “I have got a communication that a ...

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Subeg Singh and Śāhbāz Singh – This pain it is a Wheel of Fire

It is time’s own secret when Subeg Singh was born, but we know that the place of his birth was the Jagīr Rāi Bhāgā of the village Jambar in the district of Lāhaur, whose he Zamīndār was to become later ...

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Rawalsar Gurdwara – its Importance

Mandi, HP: In his “Mahankosh” (Panjabi encyclopaedia) Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha refers to Rawalsar as the place where Guru Gobind Singh ji addressed the hill rajas (in 1701). From gurdwara and open divaan stages, dhadhis and kavishars (folk singers and ...

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