SECTION I - Sikhs-in-Europe

PREFACE
This Select Bibliography of the Sikhs and Sikhism has grown out
of a small list of books I had drawn up for my private use in 1919 at
Peshawar where I was then posted with the Ist Brigade. With my transfer
to Mesopotamia in 1920, my interest In the collection of books on the
military history of the Sikhs grew and I was able to collect a fairly large
number of them during my nine years’ sojourn (1921-1930) in Persia. With
this came the idea of preparing a regular bibliography on the subject and I
published a selection from It in the Sikh ltihas Number of the Phulwari
(December, 1929—January, 1930), edited by the late Sardar Karam Singh.
But the Bibliography assumed Its present form at the Khalsa College,
Amrltsar, where I was in charge of the Sikh History Research Department
from 1931 to 1949. A large number of entries were made from October
1949 to 1956 at Patiala, where, In 1954, I published A Bibliography of
the Patiala and. the East Punjab States Union on behalf of the PEPSU
Archives.
The object of the Bibliography is to put together in one handy volume
for use of students and scholars of history all the necessary information
about the material on the history of the Sikhs and Sikhism available in
Indian and foreign languages lying scattered in rare and out-of-print books
and In scarce manuscripts in Persian and Punjabi available in far—flung
libraries In India and abroad.
The books and manuscripts included in this Bibliography have been
arranged authorwise under different languages, giving not only the titles of
the books, but also the names of their publishers and the places and the
dates of their publication. About the manuscripts the information is a little
more detailed. It gives the names of libraries and institutions In India and
abroad, where they are preserved and also their section and accession numbers