Overview

The present volume represents a major contribution to the field of Sikh studies. It grew out of an international conference on Sikh studies hosted by the Program in Sikh Studies and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in September 2001 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The scholars explored issues of scriptural authority, social history, gender, diaspora, and national and religious identity from a perspective solidly grounded in rich historical sources. The conference in effect was able to examine some of the consequences of Sikhism's appearance in the light of history---for scholars of Sikhism, for scholars of religion, and for scholares of history. The volume was put together in honour of one of the leading specialist in Sikh studies of present times, Hew McLeod, and it has articles by some of the most well-known names, as well as the young rising stars in the field: Pashaura Singh, N Gerald Barrier, Louis E. Fenech, Tony Ballantyne, and Doris Jakobsh.

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Author:   Pashaura Singh (, Assistant Professor of Sikh Studies, University of Michigan) ,  N. Gerald Barrier (, Professor of History and a Middlebush Chair in the Social Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9780195667080

ISBN 10:   0195667085
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   08 April 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Section II: Introduction I; Introduction II; keynote Speech; Response to Keynote Speech; Section II:; 1: Mythic Inheritance and the Historic Drink of the Khalsa; 2: Sikh identity in the Light of History; 3: Bhai Nanad Lal of the Sikh Tradition; 4: Strategies for Interpreting the Dasam Granth; 5: Maharaja Dalip Singh, History and the Negotiation of Sikh Identity; 6: What is in a Name? Circumscribing Sikh Female Nomenclature; 7: Authority, Politics, and Contemporary Sikhism: The Akal Takhat, the SGPC, Rahit Maryada and the Law; 8: Ethnic Dynamics within a Transnational Framework: The case of Sikh Diaspora; 9: Writing Prejudice: The Image of Sikhs in Bharati Mukherjee's Writings; Conference Participants; Bio-bibliographical Notes on Contributors

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