Baba Naudh Singh
Title | Baba Naudh Singh PDF eBook |
Author | Wīra Siṅgha |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Politics and the Novel in India
Title | Politics and the Novel in India PDF eBook |
Author | Malik |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 2023-07-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004643745 |
The Sikhs of the Punjab
Title | The Sikhs of the Punjab PDF eBook |
Author | J. S. Grewal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1998-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521637640 |
In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak, the development of his ideas by his successors and the growth of his following. The book offers a comprehensive statement on one of the largest and most important communities in India today.
Bhai Vir Singh
Title | Bhai Vir Singh PDF eBook |
Author | Gurdial Singh Khosla |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Study of Bhai Bir Singh, 1872-1957, Panjabi litterateur.
The Construction of Religious Boundaries
Title | The Construction of Religious Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Harjot Oberoi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 1994-12-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780226615929 |
In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism. A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Bhai Vir Singh
Title | Bhai Vir Singh PDF eBook |
Author | Jagit Singh Guleria |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Issued on the birth centenary of Bhai Bir Singh, 1872-1957, Panjabi litterateur; contributed articles.
The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 673 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0199699305 |
This handbook innovatively combines the ways in which scholars diverse fields (including philosophy, psychology, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics) have integrated the study of Sikhism within critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion.