Gurdaspur
Punjab, India
The district in the Bari Doab between the Beas and the Ravi. Its marshes at Kahnuwan, and the wooded country running up to the Himalayan foothills, were the refuge Sikh bands fell back into when the plains were closed to them — and where they were caught in 1746.
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- Khushwant Singh. A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839. Oxford University Press (2004). The chapters on the persecutions of the 1740s
- J. S. Grewal. The Sikhs of the Punjab (The New Cambridge History of India II.3). Cambridge University Press (1990). Ch. 5, on the eighteenth century
- Harbans Singh (ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism. Punjabi University, Patiala. Entry: Chhota Ghallughara