Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; The Nabha Rulers; The Gill Family; The Document; The Historical Context; Translation; The Text; Epilogue; Chronology; Glossary; Index.

About the Author

Padmashree and a renowned historian, J.S. Grewal served the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla as its Director and Chairman of its Governing Body after serving Guru Nanak Dev University at Amritsar as its Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History. He has written extensively on Historiography, Medieval India, the Punjab and Punjabi Literature, and the Sikhs. His publications include Guru Nanak in History (1969); The Sikhs of the Punjab (1990); Sikh Ideology, Polity and Social Order (2007); A Study of Guru Granth Sahib: Doctrine, Social Content, History, Structure and Status (2009); and The Sikhs: Ideology, Institutions and Identity (2009). Veena Sachdeva, Reader in the Department of History, Punjab Univesity, Chandigarh has published Polity and Economy of the Punjab During the Late Eighteenth Century (1993) and several research papers on the socio-economic and socio-cultural history of late medieval India.