ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KHURSH&#298D KH&#256LS&#256 </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><u>KH</u>URSH&#298D <u>KH</u>&#256LS&#256 (<u>kh</u>ursh&#299d</i> lit. the sun --- rays of the sun) is a book in Urdu pertaining to the history of the Sikhs from the time of Gur&#363 N&#257nak published at &#256ft&#257b-i-Hind Press in Lahore in 1885. The book caused a considerable amount of controversy in contemporary Sikhism. Already riven into two factions, the Amritsar and Lahore groups, the antagonism between the two --- one espousing the cause of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh, the deposed sovereign of the Punjab, and the other openly hostile to him --- sharpened. Members of the K&#363k&#257 sect were the principal supporters of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257. The book written by B&#257v&#257 Nih&#257l Si&#7749gh, an employee of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Bikram Si&#7749gh of Far&#299dko&#7789 , contained passages favourable to Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh, who had by then turned a foe of the British. The Lahore party objected and asked the author to withdraw the book. At celebrations in honour of Gur&#363 N&#257nak's birth, a portrait of Duleep Si&#7749gh was displayed by the Amritsar leaders in the presence of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib which was resented by the Lahore party. In October 1885 Gurmukh Si&#7749gh, secretary of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 D&#299w&#257n Lahore, issued a letter clearing the D&#299w&#257n of any connection with the publication and throwing the entire responsibility on the author and the publisher. The author had the implicit support of the Amritsar faction. The book was considered to be subversive of the Sikh tenets and the author was expelled from the membership of the Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>