ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GUR&#362 GOBIND SI&#7748GH</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279<i>GUR&#362 GOBIND SI&#7748GH</i>, by &#7788i&#7749kar&#299 Banerjee, is a biography, in Bengali, of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh, the tenth and last of the spiritual teachers of the Sikh faith. The author, a noted nineteenth-century litterateur, felt moved by once listening to Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's <i>Bhagaut&#299</i> hymns and this led him to undertake a biography of the Gur&#363 which "took thirty years of his labour and throughout this period he received all possible help from the Ba&#7771&#257 B&#257z&#257r Sikh <i>Sa&#7749gat</i>" and the <i>bh&#257&#299s</i>, i.e. Sikh priest-preachers, of the Ba&#7771&#257 B&#257zar Gurdw&#257r&#257 in Calcutta. The book, first published in AD 1896, had three fourths of it devoted to the lives of the nine preceding Gur&#363s with the last three chapters describing the career of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. However, the bulk of the second edition which came out in 1918 was taken up with the story of the Tenth Gur&#363. The new edition also included portraits of the Ten Gur&#363s and two maps, one of which showed the major political centres and religious places connected with the life of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. The attitude of the author towards the Gur&#363 is one of wholehearted admiration and reverence. He considered him a true messenger of God, and he sums up his historical role as the creator of a body of men, saints as well as soldiers, committed to the defence of the weak and to challenging State tyranny.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Him&#257dr&#299 Banerjee<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>