“Through deft study of sites and objects revered within Sikh tradition, Annre Murphy explores the historical production of the representation of the past within Sikh tradition and how such representations were transformed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth in Punjab. Murphy moves beyond the ‘Sikh identity’ debate toward a more substantive and historically-oriented accounting of the central sensibilities and com-mitments in the tradition. An excellent addition to the growing corpus of works in the colonial history of South Asia.