Contributed by Michael Hawley, Mount Royal College

Gurbachan Singh Nayyar, Guru Hargobind in Sikh Tradition (Based on Acknowledged Conventional Sources) (New Delhi: National Book Organisation, 1998)

W.H. McLeod, Sikhs of the Khalsa, pp. 33-40.

Gurmeet Rai and Kavita Singh, Brick by Sacred Brick: Architectural Projects of Guru Arjan and Guru Hargobind, in Kavita Singh (ed.), New Insights into Sikh Art, 54:4 (Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2003)

Iqtidar Alam Khan, Martial and Political Culture of the Khalsa, in Reeta Grewal et al (ed.), Five Centuries of Sikh Tradition: Ideology, Politics, and Culture (Delhi: Manohar, 2005), pp. 86-7.