...The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Louis E. Fenech, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532843.003.0001. This chapter introduces readers to the Sikh institution of the Cherished Five and their role in Sikh ritual and tradition today. It also relays...

...The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Louis E. Fenech, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532843.003.0002. This chapter examines two facets of the Panj Piare narrative: the actual number and the names of the Panj Piare. The earliest evidence is very...

...The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Louis E. Fenech, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532843.003.0004. This chapter examines the Panj Piare narrative story in two separate texts, one from the middle of the eighteenth century, the Gur-bilas...

... apart from that of the ten human Sikh Gurus themselves: the Cherished Five, or the pañj pi re, among the most important components that make up the Sikh Khalsa panth (community) and the topic of this book the Khalsa being, of course, the Sikh martial-spiritual order inaugurated by Guru Gobind Singh...

...The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Louis E. Fenech, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532843.003.0005. This chapter begins with a summary of the early- to mid-eighteenth-century historical context, which was marked by a decline in the power...