THE AUTHOR

Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal is an independent research scholar with expertise in Sikhism and the history of Punjab. He earned his M.A. in English literature from Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar. He moved to the US in 1979 and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Senior University International, USA in 1999 under Prof. Noel Q. King, then Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. He wrote a comprehensive volume Religion and Politics in Sikhism: The Khalsa Perspective, published by Singh Brothers, Amritsar in 2011. Dr. Nahal has worked in Silicon Valley in technical communication for the last four decades.