Angad, one of the disciples of Nanak, founder of Sikhism, is chosen by Nanak as his spiritual successor, and following Nanak’s death at Kartapur in 1538 or 1539, Angad assumes the leadership of the young Sikh community as Guru Angad.
“What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history."
―Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures (1803)