Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysAuthor: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 525
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195626443
Description
A companion volume in the series, this work continues Khushwant Singh's history of the Sikhs, taking up the thread at the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1839, and focussing on the continuing Sikh struggle for survival as a separate community.
The development of religious, sociological, and political movements under British expansionism and the threat of Muslim domination are explored. The author chronicles the years following Indian independence, marked by the demand for a distinct Sikh state, and presents the events leading upto and following 'Operation Blue Star' when the Indian army entered the Golden Temple in 1984.
PRESS REVIEWS: the indispensable reference point for ... an historical and sociological understanding of the Sikh condition...these volumes are a tribute to the capacity for both a sympathetic and a balanced rendition of Sikh history. - - THE TIMES OF INDIA
Singh has done a good job of turning dry history into informed reading. - - SUNDAY MAIL
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Illustrations
PART I: FALL OF THE SIKH KINGDOM
CHAPTER 1
The Punjab on the Death of Ranjit Singh
CHAPTER 2
First Anglo-Sikh War
CHAPTER 3
The Punjab under British Occupation
CHAPTER 4
Second Anglo-Sikh War
PART II: CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER IN THE PUNJAB
CHAPTER 5
Annexation of the Punjab
CHAPTER 6
Sikhs and the Mutiny of 1857
CHAPTER 7
'Crescat a Fluviis'
PART III; SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS REFORM
CHAPTER 8
Religious Movements
CHAPTER 9
Singh Sabha and Social Reform
PART IV: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS: MARXIST, NATIONAL, AND SECTARIAN
CHAPTER 10
Rural Indebtedness and Peasant Agitation
CHAPTER 11
World War I and its Aftermath
CHAPTER 12
Xenophobic Marxism
CHAPTER 13
Gurdwara Reform: Rise of the Akali Immortals
CHAPTER 14
Constitutional Reforms and the Sikhs
PART V: POLITICS OF PARTITION: INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEMAND FOR A SIKH HOMELAND
CHAPTER 15
Sikhs and World War II (1939-1945)
CHAPTER 16
Prelude to the Partition of India
CHAPTER 17
Civil Strife, Exodus, and Resettlement
CHAPTER 18
A State of their Own
CHAPTER 19
Prosperity and Religious Fundamentalism
CHAPTER 20
The Anandpur Sahib Resolution and other Akali Demands
CHAPTER 21
Fatal Miscalculation
CHAPTER 22
Assassination and After
CHAPTER 23
Elections and the Accord
CHAPTER 24
Foreign Connections and Khalistan
PART VI: APPENDICES
1. Cultural Heritage of the Sikhs
2. Treaty between the British Government and the State of Lahore, March 9, 1846
3. Articles of Agreement Concluded between the British Government and the Lahore Durbar on March 11, 1846
4. Articles of Agreement Concluded between the British Government and the Lahore Durbar on December 16, 1846
5. Mr.. Suhrawardy's Statement on the Riots, September 30, 1946
6. Anandpur Sahib Resolution
7. Revised List of 15 Demands Received from the Akali Dal by Government in October, 1981
Bibliography
Index
