Baba Prem Singh Hoti Mardan

Builders of the Khalsa Raj: The Biographical History of Baba Prem Singh Hoti Mardan

This course studies the biographical history written by Baba Prem Singh Hoti Mardan, an early twentieth-century chronicler of the Sikh kingdom. Working in Punjabi prose, he wrote life-accounts of the sardars, generals, and leaders who built and served the Khalsa Raj of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The course reads his…