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|author = [[Kahn Singh Nabha]]
|title_orig = ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨਹੀਂ
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|country = [[British India]]
|language = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
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|subject = A critique on the [[Sikhism|Sikh]] identity
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|pub_date = 1898 (1st ed.)
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|media_type = Print
|pages = 185 (4th ed.)
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'''''Ham Hindu Nahin''''' ({{lang-pa|ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨਹੀਂ}} ; Translation: ''We are not [[Hindu]]s''), also spelled as '''Hum Hindu Nahin''', is a 19th-century [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] book by [[Kahn Singh Nabha]],<ref name="hhn">{{cite book | title=ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨਹੀਂ | publisher=Singh Brothers | author=Nabha, Kahn Singh | author-link=Kahn Singh Nabha | year=2011 | location=[[Amritsar]] | pages=128 | isbn=978-81-7205-051-1 | language=pa}}</ref><ref name="ol">{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10618690W/Ham_Hindu_nahin | title=Ham Hindu Nahin | publisher=[[Open Library]] | date=December 11, 2009 | access-date=July 23, 2012}}</ref><ref name="pdl">{{cite web | url=http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2409&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched=%22Hum+Hindu+Nahin%22 | title=Hum Hindu Nahin | publisher=[[Panjab Digital Library]] | access-date=July 23, 2012}}</ref> on the distinction of the [[Sikhism]] and identity.<ref name="at">{{cite news | url=http://www.amritsartimes.com/2011/05/26/5024 | title=ਕੀ 'ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨਹੀਂ' ਕਿਤਾਬ ਵੰਡੀ ਪਾਉਂਦੀ ਹੈ? | agency=[http://www.amritsartimes.com Amritsar Times] | access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref> First published in 1898,<ref name="ht">{{cite news | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/Opeds/A-lethal-cocktail-of-religion-and-politics/Article1-238998.aspx | title=A lethal cocktail of religion and politics | work=News in English | date=July 27, 2007 | agency=[[The Hindustan Times]] | access-date=July 23, 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025193620/http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/Opeds/A-lethal-cocktail-of-religion-and-politics/Article1-238998.aspx | archive-date=October 25, 2012 }}</ref> the book was registered under this title in the [[Punjab Gazette]] on June 30, 1899, at number 447.

Pressing its claim vehemently and vigorously to the distinction of the Sikh identity and religion, it concludes with a versified note by the author, describing the characteristics of the [[Khalsa]].

== Subject and need to write ==
When there were a lot of misconceptions
and questions raised upon the Different identity of Sikh Religion and it being a sect of Hindu Religion, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha wrote this book in order to clarify and answer those misconceptions and questions.
In this book, the writer discusses about the differences in between the beliefs of Hindu faith and the Sikh faith in depth along with the letters which writer received from various Sikh Scholars and Prominent Sikh Shrines, in favor of this book.
The book gives deep analysis along with references to religious texts and Historical incidents.

== See also ==
*[[Mahan Kosh]]

== References ==
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[[Category:History of Punjab]]
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