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I am very favourably impressed with the lucidity and thoroughness with which each word has been treated. It can truly be styled “The Encyclopædia of Sikh Literature." If a word has been used in twenty senses in different books, all those meanings are given with quotations from and references to the books concerned. In defining a locality, the legend or historical incident connected with it is related and its exact geographical position described. In case of persons mentioned, a short biographical sketch of each is given. Similarly terms connected with various arts and other branches of human knowledge are fully dealt with. It embodies more than seven thousand Arabic and Persian words. To ensure their correct pronunciation, they are also given in the Persian characters. In like manner, Sanskrit words are also given in the Devnagri characters. This work will be useful not only to the Sikhs, for whom it is of course primarily intended, but also to all Punjabis in general and to the students of Comparative Religion and Theology in particular. (BHAI BISHAN DAS PURI, M. A., P. E. S., Ex-Principal, Government College, Dharmsala, and Reporter on Books, Education Department, Punjab. My friend, Bhai Kahan Singh of Nabha, has done a remarkable service to the Sikh literary world in having completed his work the "Encyclopædia of Sikh Literature" after so many years of hard and costly literary labour. I wish the book would now have the appreciative reception it so richly deserves. (BHAI) VIR SINGH. The Encyclopædia of Sikh Literature is a store-house of information and gathered harvest of years of incessant labour. Sardar Kahan Singh has rendered a service not only to the Sikhs but to the Punjabi language. I admire his devotion, his deep studies and his research. (SJR) JOGENDRA SINGH. Your work, on which you have spent 14 years of your strenuous labour, is of monumental importance to the Punjabi literature. It deals with all the words used in the Sikh Scriptures and the books of historical importance of the Sikhs in great detail full of instructive information, and will be of very great help and use to the students of the Punjabi literature. (S. B. SIR) SUNDAR SINGH MAJITHIA. (iv).