Sikh Figures

Sikh figures gathers women central to the Sikh Gurus' own household and court, from Guru Angad's wife who established the langar tradition of communal free kitchens to a Sikh confederacy's chief and a warrior-saint of the Guru's own bodyguard, a small heading reflecting how few women's names survive in the tradition's earliest recorded history rather than any narrowness in what counts.