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titled Pakistan Resolution Revisited (published in 1990) on the occasion of the
Golden Jubilee of the Pakistan Resolution, in which the eminent scholars of Pakistan
contributed, contained no article on the Muslim-Sikh relations. Hasan Masud and
Farooq Ahmad Dar’s M.Phil. theses (Department of History, QAU, Islamabad) are a
useful addition to the material on the Punjab because they have depicted the
communal trends and the political conditions of the Punjab but once again the work
addresses the Hindu-Muslim tussle rather than the Muslim-Sikh relations. Many
authors have compiled correspondence relating to the Sikh question as Latif Ahmad
Sherwani included eight letters in his book, Pakistan Resolution to Pakistan 1940-
1947. Imran Ali, Punjab Politics in the Decade before Partition gave no importance
to the subject of the Muslim-Sikh relationship. Dr. S. Qalb-i-Abid, Muslim Politics in
the Punjab, 1921-1947, presents a well-worked and comprehensive study on the
Punjab politics. The author has supported the historical events and directions with
authentic sources particularly the India Office Record. Although it undertakes the
study of the Sikh politics as well but does not deal with the Muslim-Sikh relations as
a separate chapter in the book. Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Tamimi has produced two
books, Bharat Mein Sikh Qaumi Tehreek (1992) and Sikh-Muslim Ta’aloqat: Aik
Tehqiqi Jaiza (2007) in which he defends the Mughal emperors on the issue of the
Gurus’ murder. He undertakes the study of the Muslim-Sikh relations under the
British rule up to 1947. This book deals partly with the period from 1940 to 1947. His
study from 1940 to 1947 is not authentic because it carries wrong data. For example,
his assertion that the Indian National Congress forced the Sikhs to demand Azad
Punjab, Sikhistan or Khalistan 5 cannot be accepted as he has cited no evidence to
prove it. It also contradicts his stand on page 179 and his conclusion in his other book
that Khalsa Raj had become a religio-political tradition of the Sikhs. 6 In his book
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