num_pages: 407
description: First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.
language: English
title: A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469-1839
publisher: Oxford University Press