Manmohan is Punjabi Poet, Novelist, Critic and Linguist. He is retired Indian Police Service officer. He did his Ph.D on Dasam Granth of Tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in 1994. He got Sahitya Akademi Award on his debut novel 'Nirvaan' in 2013. He is author of 12 books of poetry, 2 novels, 13 books of Literary research and criticism. Besides he has translated 9 books from English, Hindi to Punjabi and Punjabi to English. He has also edited 4 books for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. He has been honoured with 'Poetry Award' (2001) 'Criticism Award' (2005) and 'Prose Award' (2009) by Punjabi Academy Delhi, 'Best Poet Award' (2003) by Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, 'Award of Recognition' (2018) by Chandigarh Sahitya Academy Chandigarh and 'Shiromani Sahitkaar' (2019) by the Government of Punjab.
It is a fact universally acknowledged that Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji's ultimate sacrifice for the helpless people, and that of his three devotees, is unprecedented and unparalleled in human history and in his lifetime, in the lineage of the Gurus, he applied the balm of his bani to the lacerated souls of the people of Hind. On these counts he is revered as Hind di Chaadar, the protecting cover of the land of Hindus.
The ten Sikh Gurus from 1500 to 1708 were the dhal, shield, against the tyranny of 181 years of Mughal rule (1526-1707) from the first battle of Panipat in 1526 to the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, the first of the ten Gurus, composed around 1507 his hymn Baburbani about Babur's wholesale slaughter of the unarmed helpless old men, women and children after capturing in 1506 Saidpur (now Imanabad). In that hymn, Guru Nanak ji even blames God for not taking pity on the helpless old men, children and women. Thus began the Sikh Gurus' voice of protest and their unremitting defence of the people and dharma and their struggle continued through the ten Gurus till the tenth Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji was stabbed to death in Nasik in 1708. To understand the place and nature of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji's contribution, we need to contextualize his work, in the (i) tradition of the Sikh Gurus, and (ii) the work of the Ten Gurus in India's social history and the history of ideas.
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