Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies

FOREWORD
This book is an attempt to throw new light on the
authenticity of Sikh scripture, i.e. Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The
author, S. Daljeet Singh, delivered Guru Tegh Bahadur
commemorative lectures for the year 1987 in the University
and in one of these lectures he established the authenticity of
hand-written Bir presently preserved at Kartarpur, District
Jullundur (Punjab).
Among the revelatory religions of the world, Sikhism
has a unique place. This is so because the Kartarpuri Bir of Sri
Guru Granth Sahib was authenticated by the fifth master, Guru
Arjan Dev Ji himself. But certain doubts regarding this
established fact have been wilfully created by some scholars.
This University has already published a book “Kartarpuri Bir
De Darshan” written by Dr. Bhai Jodh Singh, the founder Vice-
Chancellor of the Punjabi University Patiala. Despite this the
controversy regarding the authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir persists.
This has motivated the learned Sikh scholar, S. Daljeet Singh,
to settle the controversy once for all. He has been able to do it
very ably by adducing arguments based on the internal evidence
from the original copy of Kartarpuri Bir. The present volume
seeks to dispel many erroneous notions and misconceptions
about Kartarpuri Bir and the doctrine of the Sikhs.
The second lecture deals with the doctrinal aspect of
the Sikhs. The uniqueness of the Sikh thought is discussed in
detail in this lecture entitled “The Integrated Logic And Unity
of Sikhism”, with the result that this small book has
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