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India: Guru Nanak as a young man, disputing with Hindu holy men. Miniature from a prayer book of Rani Jindan, the mother of Maharaja Dalip Singh. c.18th-19th century

India: Guru Nanak as a young man, disputing with Hindu holy men. Miniature from a prayer book of Rani Jindan, the mother of Maharaja Dalip Singh. c.18th-19th century

Guru Nanak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of ten Sikh Gurus. Sikhs believe that all subsequent Gurus possessed Guru Nanak’s divinity and religious authority.

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