Four sites in Delhi hold Punjabi history that Delhi itself does not teach. Sis Ganj on Chandni Chowk marks where Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji was executed on 11 November 1675, having gone to the Mughal court on behalf of Kashmiri Pandits who were being forced to convert. Rakab Ganj marks where Lakhi Shah Vanjara burned his own house down over the body so the cremation would pass as an ordinary fire.
Bhai Jaita Ji carried the head north to Anandpur. He was given the name Bhai Jiwan Singh Ji and the words Rangretta Guru ka beta, and he died at Chamkaur in 1704.
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Ji was brought to Delhi in a cage in 1716 with several hundred of his men. They were executed at the rate of about a hundred a day in the open ground opposite the Kotwali in Chandni Chowk, over about a week. Contemporary European observers at the court wrote that not one accepted the offer of life in exchange for conversion.
In March 1783 a Sikh force under Baghel Singh entered Delhi and held the Red Fort area. The settlement negotiated with Shah Alam II gave the Sikhs the right to build gurdwaras at the sites of the executions and a share of the city's octroi. Seven gurdwaras were raised in about eight months and the force withdrew. This is the only occasion on which the Khalsa held Delhi.
In the first days of November 1984, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, organised mobs killed Sikhs across Delhi. Official figures put the dead at just under three thousand. Convictions have been few and slow. Colonies built for the widows still stand in the west of the city.
Delhi is where Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji was executed, where Guru Har Krishan Ji died, where Banda Singh Bahadur Ji was executed, and where Baghel Singh held the city in 1783.
It is also where the Punjabi refugee population of 1947 rebuilt the city, where the killings of November 1984 happened, and where the farm protest camped for thirteen months.
No other city outside Punjab carries as much of the Punjabi record. Almost none of it is marked as such, and the city's account of itself does not include most of it.