... Gurdas Bhalla Bhai Ranjit Singh Maharaja Gur-sobha Sainapati Nand Lal hukam-namas Khalsa Rahit rahit-namas masands Baisakhi gurbilas With its distinctive physical, sartorial, liturgical, and behavioural regulations the ideal Khalsa—a Punjabi term (khālsā) derived from...

.... The civilians had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh to celebrate the annual Baisakhi festival, which also attracted peasants from surrounding villages for a visit to the Golden Temple. The troops fired at them on orders by Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer. The people were not aware that martial law had...

... are based, it appears quite clearly that the only time we ever see the Panj Piare throughout the narrative record is during the order s inception, the now-fabled Baisakhi Day of 1699, a fact that accounts for the story s and (we may assume) the institution s popularity over the centuries. This makes...