Re: Poetic and Concise History of Punjab!
same book referred in post 2. Though, its work of fiction, but it highlights historical, social and cultural aspects of Punjab (pre-partition) very well.
Latest, a Sikh character is annoyed at Gandhi ji for not opposing (saying any thing) Arya Samja and their Shudhi, when he sees an incident of forcibly cutting hair of a Sikh boy by Arya Samaj. He went on to tell story to his son about what happened at Jaliyanwala Bagh and linked this force conversion with that. He considers that after Jaliyanwala Bagh British gave an indication that rights will be given on population basis. Gandhi ji was silent for these conversions being a Hindu (who wants to see Hindus in majority). I think the characters will keep on changing the thought process as the time passes (for the time being they are in late 1920s).
There comes this quote ''stories are not told for the telling, but for the teaching.”