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Bansavalinama: The Chronicle of the Ten Kings

Name: Bansavalinama: The Chronicle of the Ten Kings
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By Kesar Singh Chhibbar · Translated by Amar Singh

The first complete English translation of the only continuous verse chronicle of all Ten Sikh Gurus.

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In 1769, Kesar Singh Chhibbar, a Brahmin scholar whose family had served inside the Gurus' household for generations, completed the only continuous verse chronicle of all Ten Sikh Gurus written within living memory of the later Gurus. He claimed seventy years of gathered accounts. For over 250 years the text has remained locked in archaic Punjabi and Braj Bhasha, accessible only to specialist readers.

This edition translates all fourteen chapters, over 2,500 verses, for the first time: the Ten Gurus, Banda Singh Bahadur, Jit Singh, Mata Sahib Devi Ji, and Chhibbar's remarkable closing account of the Panth in his own day, written as an eyewitness to the persecutions of the eighteenth century.

Every verse is numbered against the printed Gurmukhi edition. Every Samvat date carries its CE equivalent. Where Chhibbar quotes scripture, the original Gurmukhi is given with transliteration and translation. Translator's notes are ruled off from the verse text throughout, telling you where this source is invaluable, where Chhibbar's Brahminical framework colours his account, and where his dates differ from the standard record. Each chapter closes with Key Dates and Key People. We have not softened him: his caste politics, his Puranic cosmology and his contested claims stand as he wrote them, flagged rather than hidden.

Bound to be kept: A5 portrait hardback in black cloth with gold foiling, no dust jacket, the cover is the binding. Black and white insides on 80gsm paper, white end papers, and a dark gold ribbon marker. Approx. 600 pages. English edition; a bilingual Punjabi–English edition will follow.