This is the standard and well established book on its subject, accessible to a general non scholarly audience, while being based on scholarly archival research. Singh exhaustively covers the genesis and development of Sikhism and the Sikh community, up to the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Covers the social, religious and political background which led to the formation of the Sikh faith in the fifteenth century. Basing his account on original documents in Persian, Gurmukhi and English, the author traces the growth of Sikhism and tells of the compilation of its sacred scriptures in the Granth Sahib.

This work is a definitive study of R.K. Narayan, author of fifteen novels and novellas and more than half a dozen collections of short stories. Based on his personal experiences with Narayan and his friends and relatives, Rao does detailed critical analyses of all of Narayan's works, reading them through the lens of the Indian philosophical concept of the three 'gunas'.