South and Central Asia · Religion

Sikh tradition, Khalsa and Punjab polities

1469-1849 CE across distinct religious and political phases · Punjab

Teachings beginning with Guru Nanak developed through ten Gurus, scripture, congregations and the Khalsa, followed by Sikh confederacies and the kingdom of Ranjit Singh.

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How the setting appeared

Villages, trading towns, gurdwaras, fortified settlements and irrigated fields anchored communities in a mobile and contested Punjab.

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How people lived

Congregational practice and shared kitchens expressed equality, while caste, gender, landholding and military power continued to shape lived experience.

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How people worked

Cultivation, trade, craft, manuscript copying, hospitality, armed service and state administration sustained religious and political institutions. Gurdwaras depended on donated labor and food for congregational worship and langar, but practice varied by place and period.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Sikhs gather in sangat around the Guru Granth Sahib through recitation, kirtan, prayer and seva, with langar joining worship to shared service. Khalsa discipline and later gurdwara or state institutions should not be projected unchanged onto Guru Nanak's first communities.

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World-atlas stage: Oceanic empires
Region: South Asia · Punjab
Languages and scripts: Punjabi; Gurmukhi; Persian; Braj and other literary registers
Important people: Guru Nanak; Guru Arjan; Guru Gobind Singh; Mata Sahib Kaur; Ranjit Singh
Events and changes: Formation of Sikh congregations; Compilation of the Adi Granth; Creation of the Khalsa in 1699; Sikh Empire; British annexation of Punjab
Evidence confidence: High: scriptures, records and institutions are substantial; hagiographic accounts and the relationship between religious and political identity changed over time.

Agent citation CIT-MET-SOUTH-ASIAN-CULTURECIT-LOC-COUNTRY-STUDIESCIT-BRITISHLIBRARY-SIKH-WORSHIP Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-MET-SOUTH-ASIAN-CULTURE

South Asian Art and Culture

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/south-asian-art-and-culture

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-LOC-COUNTRY-STUDIES

Country Studies Collection

https://www.loc.gov/collections/country-studies/about-this-collection/

Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

CIT-BRITISHLIBRARY-SIKH-WORSHIP

Sikh Prayer and Worship

https://smarthistory.org/sikh-prayer-and-worship/

British Library via Smarthistory

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