W.H.MCLEOD AND HIS PERCEPTION ABOUT GURU NANAK DEV

Abstract

W.H. Mcleod is a leading Western Scholar of Sikhism and Sikh community. His ideas and insights and his western historical method has proved to be a beacon light for the students, researchers and scholars of the Sikh studies. By the sheer dint of his academic pursuits, linguistic skills and in depth analysis of Sikh history, doctrine and literature, he has earned the reputation of a critical historian of international stature. Mcleod played a major role in the establishing and popularizing the academic study of Sikhism outside India. He leaves behind a body of work on Sikhism which will be a source of reference to the coming generations of Sikh scholars.