You hit on an important thing there. I think we venerate and (understandably) idolise and even glamourise our ancestors and their achievements so much that we lose sight of the reality of them and their times, ignoring things that go against our whitewashed perception. When you read real, raw Sikh history from uninfluenced Sikh sources, like Bhangu's Panth Prakash, you'll see that he had no problem confronting it all - good, bad and ugly. He was a realist who explored the truth, as opposed to creating a fairy tale whitewashed version of events. Read vol 2 of the PP translation and see for yourself what our ancestors got up to.
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