Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies

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Singh writes that the Kartarpuri Bir is a copy of some copy of
the Banno Bir, that in the Kartarpuri Bir the entire Sabad of
Bhagat Surd as had been copied but later had been rubbed off
by Hartal, but by oversight one line of the Sabad which had
been written in continuation of the Sabad of Bhagat Parma
Nand Ji was left from being removed. This is entirely baseless
since no Hartal has been used and only one line of Bhagat
Surdas stands written, and this line is written quite separately.
the same being not in continuation of any Sabad of Bhagat
Parma Nand Ji. Since the Kartarpuri Bir, as we know, has none
of the additional compositions that are there in the Banno Bir,
the question of its being a copy of the Banno Bir does not
really arise. 45
No one who reads the books of G.B. Singh and Jodh
Singh can escape the conclusion that G. B. Singh has not written
the book with any sense of integrity. and discrimination since
he makes numerous baseless and senseless assertions without
the least regard for truth. Jodh Singh, as mentioned above, has
completely exploded the claim of research or scholarship made
by G.B. Singh. Today, one can safely say that few persons with
even nominal pretensions to scholarship are capable of making
such wild and wrong statements as had been done by G.B.
Singh.
Since the criticism of G.B. Singh was too unfounded
to need any notice now, and since the same had been replied
to by Jodh Singh in 1946, ordinarily we need not have
mentioned it. But, Dr. Mcleod in 1975 and 1980 and Prof.
Pritam Singh in 1981 have tried to exume the burried ghost of
G.B. Singh. In a way they have kept him as a model in repeating
some of his exploded theories and assertions which, on
examination have been found to be baseless and untruthful.
One thing both the scholars share in common with G.B. Singh
is that none of them had examined the Kartarpuri Bir and
Mcleod had not even a look at the Banno Bir.