Gurbachan Singh Talib

Photograph of Gurbachan Singh Talib

Sardar Gurbachan Singh (Punjabi: ਸਰਦਾਰ ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਤਾਲਿਬ (Gurmukhi); 1911–1986) was a Sikh scholar, professor, and author. He was born in Moonak, Sangrur district. He was a lecturer at the Sikh National College at Lahore. At the Banaras Hindu University he held the Guru Nanak Chair of Sikh Studies. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1985.^[1] He received in 1985 the National fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.

Bibliography

Source:^[2]

• The idea of Sikh State ( 1946)
• Anapachhate Rah (1952)
• Adhunik Punjabi Sahit (Punjabi Kav) (1955)
• Pavittar Jivan Kathavan (1971)
• Baba Shaikh Farid (1975)
• Muslim League Attack on the Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab, 1947 (1950) It was first published in 1950 by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC).^[3] This book details the witness accounts of the Hindus and Sikhs who fled their homes in the West Punjab,^[4] the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and parts of Jammu & Kashmir.
• The Impact of Guru Gobind Singh on Indian Society (1966),
• Guru Nanak: His Personality and Vision (1969)
• Bhai Vir Singh: Life, Times and Works (1973)
• Baba Sheikh Farid (1974)
• Guru Tegh Bahadur: Background and Supreme Sacrifice (1976)
• Japuji: The immortal Prayer-chant (1977); and his classical
• Translation in English of the Guru Granth Sahib (Four Volumes)

References

1. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
2. Dilagīra, Harajindara Siṅgha (1997). The Sikh reference book. Internet Archive. Edmonton, Alb., Canada : Sikh Educational Trust for Sikh University Centre, Denmark ; Amritsar : Available from Singh Bros. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-9695964-2-4.
3. Gyanendra Pandey; Professor of History Gyanendra Pandey (22 November 2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-521-00250-9. A Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) report on the 'Muslim League' attack on Sikhs and Hindus in 1947, published in 1950, was equally ardent in its acclaim of the 'epic resistance' offered by Sikh men and women in village after village throughout Punjab.
4. Farahnaz Ispahani (2017). Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities. Oxford University Press. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-19-062165-0. ....information collated by a Sikh religious organization, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), in a 453-page book, Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947, indicates "that the main Muslim communal party, the Muslim League, wanted the whole of Punjab and therefore planned the expulsion by all means of Sikhs and Hindus from the areas that were assigned to Pakistan...

• Encyclopedia of Sikhism by Harbans Singh ji. Published by Punjabi university, Patiala

External links

• History of Sikhism
• Personalities of Sikhism