edited by Ganda Singh (Two Vols. April 1971 and Oct.1980) Ganda Singh (15 November 1900-27 December 1987) launched a new trend in the history of Sikh through his sustainable and pioneering work in the field of historical research. He was born on November 15, 1900 in Javala Singh, Hariana, near Hosiapur, Punjab. He began teaching at a village mosque and later transferred to elementary school. He passed junior high school, leaving the DA.V. exam. (Dayanand Anglo-Vernacular) His admission to a junior high school, a government high school in the same city as Hoshiarpur. He enrolled in Forman Christian College in Lahore, but soon left to join the army (1919). He was assigned to the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in Basra in 1920 after working at the Supply and Transportation Corps Base in Rawalpindi and the Division Office in Peshawar, and then in 1921 as well in the Royal Army Pay Corps in Basra. There, his thigh was torn by a bullet and he was taken to the hospital. October 1931, Ph.D. A long and fruitful career as a Gandasin researcher and historian. Kalsa College in Amritsar entrusted him with the newly established Sikh History Research Department, which he held until 1949. During this time, he extensively searched various public libraries, archives, and personal collections throughout India to search for materials on the history of Sikhism, enriched the libraries of his department, and several based on it. Published books and booklets. In 1949 he came to Patiala and was appointed director of the museum's archives and curators under the government of PEPSU (Patiala and the Union of East Punjab). In 1950 he was further appointed Director of the Punjabi Language Bureau. He founded the Punjab History Conference in 1965. This has become a very lively forum for discussing issues related to the history of Punjab. In 1967 he started the university journal The Punjab Past and Present, in which he himself was an editor and has been highly regarded and reputed for many years.