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When sparrows became hawks : the making of the Sikh warrior tradition, 1699-1799 / Purnima Dhavan.
- Title
- When sparrows became hawks : the making of the Sikh warrior tradition, 1699-1799 / Purnima Dhavan.
- Author
- Dhavan, Purnima.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- x, 253 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Purnima Dhavan examines the creation of the Khalsa Sikh warrior tradition during the 18th century. By focusing on the experiences of long-overlooked peasant communities, she reveals how a dynamic process of debates, collaboration, and conflict transformed Sikh practices and shaped a new martial culture.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Khalsa (Sect) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1 introduction: the origins of the khalsa -- Ch. 2 early narratives of the last guru and the creation of the khalsa -- Ch. 3 (re)making the khalsa, 1708-48 -- Ch.4 the making of a sikh sardar: two jassa singhs and the place of sikhs in the eighteenth-century military labor market -- Ch. 5 rereading alha singh: rebel, raja, and sikh sardar -- Ch. 6 from peasant soldier to elite warrior: raiding, honor feuds, and the transformation of khalsa identity -- Ch. 7 devotion and its discontents: the affective communities of gurbilas texts -- Ch. 8 conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780199756551 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0199756554 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010053502
- OCLC
- 695560144
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library