H. R. Gupta, Dean, Punjab Histories (History Of Sikhs)

We now close the narrative of Sikhs, who placed themselves at the head of the nation (India); who showed themselves as the interpreters of the rights of the people; who maintained the struggle between good and evil, between sovereign will of the people and the divine right of Kings, who avenged the insults, the outrages and the slavery of many past generations; who delivered their country from the yoke of foreign oppressor; who displayed all that was great and noble; who left to the children of this province a heritage unsullied by the presence of any foreign soldier; who won for the Punjab the envied title of ‘the land of soldiers; who alone can boast of having erected a bulwark of defense against foreign aggression, the tide of which had run its prosperous course for the preceding eight hundred years; and to whom all other people of Northern India in general and Punjab in particular owe a deep debt of gratitude.