Terms

A community project

Sikhitihas is a community project: a shared record of Punjab and the Sikh Panth, built together with the Sangat. Reading it is free and never needs an account.

Using what you find here

You may quote, share and present what you read here, in a talk, an article, a video, a class or your own research, and you may cite Sikhitihas as your source. Please name Sikhitihas and link to the page you used, so others can check it.

Every fact on the site comes with a published outside source. Cite that source too where you can. Those books, papers, reports and pictures belong to their authors and publishers, and their rights stay with them.

A † marks our own analysis, by Panthic View. If you use it, present it as ours, not as a fact from the source.

We can make mistakes

We try to be as factual as we can. But this is a community project and nobody is perfect, so we will sometimes get something wrong. We correct mistakes as we find them, in English and in Punjabi, and the site keeps changing as we go. It is offered as it is, without a promise that every line is free of error.

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Changes and questions

We may update these terms as the project grows; the date below says when they last changed. For questions, write to [email protected], or press Suggest a correction on any page.

Last changed 22 October 2026.