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The Zafarnama (Wikipedia and SikhiWiki)

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A combined citation covering Wikipedia's article on the Zafarnama and SikhiWiki, a community reference maintained by Sikh editors. Their strength is corroborated agreement on the letter's 1705 composition, its 111 verse Persian structure, its dispatch to Aurangzeb by two named Sikhs and its rebuke of broken oaths. Their limit is that the sources do not agree on the exact village where it was composed, Dina in most accounts consulted, Kangar in one, and this citation states that gap rather than resolving it, and Wikipedia additionally records a scholarly authenticity debate, Banerjee and Shackle both questioning whether the surviving verse text represents an original prose letter later versified, which a general reference alone cannot settle. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Citation
Author
Wikipedia contributors; SikhiWiki editors
Publisher
Wikipedia and sikhiwiki.org
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zafarnama_(letter)
Source Type
reference
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Both Wikipedia and SikhiWiki are community-edited tertiary reference sources rather than authored or peer reviewed works, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority, hence the tradition's-own-account tier.
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Aurangzeb, Historical Figures

This source names Aurangzeb directly: "Persian structure, its dispatch to Aurangzeb by two named Sikhs and its rebuke of broken oaths."

Source The Zafarnama (Wikipedia and SikhiWiki)Wikipedia contributors; SikhiWiki editors
Persians, Cultures

This source names Persians directly: "A combined citation covering Wikipedia's article on the Zafarnama and SikhiWiki, a community reference maintained by Sikh editors."

Source The Zafarnama (Wikipedia and SikhiWiki)Wikipedia contributors; SikhiWiki editors
Claims Backed By This Source (35 claims)

This source backs 35 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Literary Works, 16 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 8 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
  • Historical Figures, 2 claims: 2 general references.
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