Foundation of the Sikh faith / J.S. Grewal -- The earliest manual on the Sikh way of life / Karamjit K. Malhotra -- Martial and political culture of the Khalsa / Iqtidar Alam Khan -- Sikh patronage of painting / B.N. Goswamy. -- Sikhs in the early census report / Anurupita Kaur -- Transition from socio-religious to political concerns : Sikh periodicals of the early twentieth century / Joginder Singh -- Mission abroad : Sant Teja Singh in the western world / Darshan S. Tatla -- The Nabha affair : Akali interest in a Sikh princely state / Mohinder Singh -- The Patiala enquiry : paramount power protects its Sikh protégé / Kuldeep Kaur Grewal -- Sikh spatial dispersal, 1881-2001 / Gopal Krishan -- Punjab agrarian economy : role of remittances by the Sikhs overseas / Shinder Singh Thandi -- Sikh identity and the issue of Khalistan / J.S. Grewal -- Five hundred years of the Sikh educational heritage / Gurinder Singh Mann.