Senker, Cath (2007). My Sikh Year. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN978-1-4042-3733-9., Quote: "Vaisakhi is the most important mela. It marks the Sikh New Year. At Vaisakhi, Sikhs remember how their community, the Khalsa, first began."
Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh (2013). Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 53-54. ISBN978-1-4411-0231-7., Quote: "The Guru's stance was a clear and unambiguous challenge, not to the sovereignty of the Mughal state, but to the state's policy of not recognizing the sovereign existence of non-Muslims, their traditions and ways of life".
Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh (2013). Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 53-54. ISBN978-1-4411-0231-7., Quote: "The Guru's stance was a clear and unambiguous challenge, not to the sovereignty of the Mughal state, but to the state's policy of not recognizing the sovereign existence of non-Muslims, their traditions and ways of life".
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The World's Religions. Cambridge University Press. p. 401. ISBN9780521637480. «Eventually he took five men forward and took them behind the tent. Gobind reappeared with a dripping sword: later it was revealed that he slaughtered five goats.»
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Fenech, Louis E. (2001). «Martyrdom and the Execution of Guru Arjan in Early Sikh Sources». Journal of the American Oriental Society121 (1): 20-31. JSTOR606726. doi:10.2307/606726.
Fenech, Louis E. (1997). «Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition». Journal of the American Oriental Society117 (4): 623-642. JSTOR606445. doi:10.2307/606445.
Deol, pp. 25–28 Deol, Jeevan (2001). «Eighteenth Century Khalsa Identity: Discourse, Praxis and Narrative». En Arvind-pal Singh and Mandair, Gurharpal Singh and Christopher Shackle, ed. Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Routledge. pp. 25-26. ISBN978-0700713899. OCLC45337782.
Deol, pp. 25–28 Deol, Jeevan (2001). «Eighteenth Century Khalsa Identity: Discourse, Praxis and Narrative». En Arvind-pal Singh and Mandair, Gurharpal Singh and Christopher Shackle, ed. Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Routledge. pp. 25-26. ISBN978-0700713899. OCLC45337782.
Deol, pp. 30–33 Deol, Jeevan (2001). «Eighteenth Century Khalsa Identity: Discourse, Praxis and Narrative». En Arvind-pal Singh and Mandair, Gurharpal Singh and Christopher Shackle, ed. Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Routledge. pp. 25-26. ISBN978-0700713899. OCLC45337782.
Deol, pp. 25–26 Deol, Jeevan (2001). «Eighteenth Century Khalsa Identity: Discourse, Praxis and Narrative». En Arvind-pal Singh and Mandair, Gurharpal Singh and Christopher Shackle, ed. Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Routledge. pp. 25-26. ISBN978-0700713899. OCLC45337782.