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Copyright GANDA SINGH First Published 1972 PUBLISHERS' NOTE The Guru Nanak Foundation, Bhatinda District, Faridkot, considers •t a pr.v.lege to be associated with this scholarly wdrk of Dr Ganda Singh as its publishers. ' Faridkot, December 29, 1971 o L - Gurcharan Singh, Secretary, Guru Nanak Foundation, Bhatinda District Published by Sardar Gurcharan Singh, M.A., PES (1), for the Guru Nanak Foundation, Bhatinda District, Faridkot, and printed by J.R. Mangla at the Phulkian Press. Phulkian Marg, Patiala. V PREFACE All over the world and throughout the ages, history of religions has seen the rise of pretenders and false prophets. The multiplicity of gods and goddesses, of the so-called messiahs and their successors, and of spurious 'saris' and 'gurus', with pretensions and claims of their followers who preach them up, is a living example of it. This phenomenon is, the product of ancient polytheisms with widespread net of exploiting priestly classes whose influence, supported by the vested interestes of the burgeoisie, on the unsuspecting masses has been deep and strong. The result has been that the schismatic leaders have, for their own glamour and glory, not only misled their simple folk from the right paths but have also tried to undermine the fundamentals of their faiths. India, in common with other parts of the world, has had its own number of religious pretenders. Even the latest of religions, Sikhism—only five hundred years old—with the Unity and Uniqueness of One formless God as its creed, has not been exempt from them. The lure of the offerings of the devotees freely flowing and the importance of the position of the Guru among the Sikhs have led several people to stake pontifical claims. With politics gaining undue weightage from the twenties of this century and the Sikh religious institutions falling into the hands of the politicians, several schismatics going about in the garb of 'Sants', 'Babas', etc., have stepped into the vacuum created by the absence of true religious preachers, particularly in the rural areas, and are trying to establish their own 'Guruships' or deras, claiming to be either the successors of Guru Gobind Singh or his avatars or incarnations. One or two of them are seeking shelter under the fictitious theory of the supposed resurrection, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, of Guru Gobind Singh under the name of Baba Ajapal Singh of Nabha. The theory, with no
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