ABSTRACT
When the riots in Rawalpindi began in March 1947 the Nirankari darbar became a refugee camp. Thus, at the time of Independence and Partition on 15 August, Sahib Hara Singh was still in Rawalpindi while his family had moved across the border to India. Of equal importance to the tasks of relocation and rebuilding caused by Partition were the literary efforts of the Nirankaris through which they came to occupy an accepted place in Sikh history and in the Sikh community. Taken together, the two tracts represent a major attempt to bring together both Nirankari traditions and evidence from non-Nirankari sources into one coherent account of the history of the Nirankaris. On 30 January 1976 the official opening of the new Nirankari Harimandir Sahib took place at the annual function in Chandigarh. The Nirankaris had not only survived the Partition crisis but had succeeded in gaining a hearing and a place within the wider Sikh community.
