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Ink drawing of an open account register with ruled columns and one saffron column, resting on a stone parapet beside three bound ledgers, a small inkwell and a dip pen. Beyond, fields and small trees lead to Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib at Anandpur, small and far off beneath the Shivalik foothills, with a Nishan Sahib beside it. Ink drawing of an open account register with ruled columns and one saffron column, resting on a stone parapet beside three bound ledgers, a small inkwell and a dip pen. Beyond, fields and small trees lead to Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib at Anandpur, small and far off beneath the Shivalik foothills, with a Nishan Sahib beside it.
featured field note No. 01 · ONE NAME · 1699 open the field note →

Today's Which Year?

three events a day

Three moments from Sikh history. Slide to the year.

Round 1 of 3

123

After years of mass arrests and hunger strikes led by Master Tara Singh and Sant Fateh Singh, India redrew Punjab on lines of language.

1750

How to play

Three events from Sikh history, three years to guess. Everyone gets the same ones, and every guess scores.

  1. Read the clue. Look for words that date it: a Mughal governor, the Maharaja, British officers, a steamship.

  2. Slide to a year. The timeline names five ages. Drag the marker, or use the buttons for single years, then Lock in.

  3. Closer scores more. Within two years is the full 1,000, and a wild guess still earns points. Another clue makes it easier but caps that round at 700.

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History Each volume below is an era. Pick one and see where it happened. Explore history by place and era

Today Every gurdwara we could find, drawn as it stands now. Find a gurdwara today

4,581 GURDWARAS · MAPPED SO FAR

Gurdwaras today

every speck is one we could find

Beyond South Asia we count gurdwaras by hand, one country at a time: Australia (63), United Kingdom (201), New Zealand (30), Canada (134), United States (225), Fiji (2).

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The volumes: pick one to travel into history.

Vol. 1
The Guru Period
1469–1708
Vol. 2
Sovereignty & Banda Singh
1708–1748
Vol. 3
The Misl Period
1748–1799
Vol. 4
The Sikh Empire
1799–1849
Vol. 5
The Singh Sabha Reform
1849–1947
Vol. 6
The Modern Era
1947–today

every field note so far

No. 01 · ONE NAME
Anandpur Sahib · 1699 No. 02 · NOVELLARA
Emilia-Romagna · 2000 No. 03 · KOMAGATA MARU
Vancouver · 1914 No. 04 · BHAGAT PURAN SINGH
1947 No. 05 · WOOLGOOLGA
New South Wales · 1968 No. 06 · BANDI CHHOR DIVAS
 No. 07 · BHAGAT SINGH THIND
1923 No. 08 · BHAI GHANAIYA
 No. 09 · KARTARPUR
Punjab · 2019 No. 10 · BHAI MARDANA
 No. 11 · THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
Amritsar · 1604 No. 12 · THE KOH-I-NOOR
1849
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The Daily

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People

The ten Gurus, and those who followed.

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ਅਰਦਾਸ

Ardas

The formal Sikh supplication, recited standing at the close of any service or undertaking.

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