Chandu Shah
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Chandu Shah is a man who features in Sikh historical accounts. Sikh tradition holds that he was an affluent banker and revenue official of the Mughal emperors from Lahore who conspired against the fif
Darbar of Jahangir with officials, ca.1620
Chandu Shah being paraded through the markets of Lahore, by the Half Tone Press, Ranjit Nagara, Lahore, Punjab, ca.1930's
Pashaura Singh is a religious studies scholar and a professor at the University of California, Riverside where he currently holds the Dr. Jasbir Singh Saini Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.
Chandu Shah
…fatal strike from an iron ladle. Ironically, the torturer who had tortured Guru Arjan was also the one who tortured Chandu Shah. It has been argued by Pashaura Singh that Jahangir shifted blame for the execution of the Guru solely on Chandu Shah as a means to escape responsibility himself. Chandu Shah had been…
William Hewat McLeod meeting Pashaura Singh (then a granthi) in Calgary, Canada, 1987. The photograph from the collection of Amarjit Chandan.