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Sikh history and religion in the twentieth century
- Title
- Sikh history and religion in the twentieth century / edited in Toronto by Joseph T. O'Connell, Milton Israel, Willard G. Oxtoby ; with visiting editors W.H. McLeod, J.S. Grewal.
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, 1988.
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- Description
- vii, 496 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Some fourteen million Sikhs worldwide are heirs today to a tradition of faith recalling the devotional spirituality of Guru Nanak, who lived in the Punjab five hundred years ago. The twentieth century has witnessed a heightening of Sikhs' self-awareness as a community with an identity and aspirations distinct from their Hindu as well as their Muslim neighbours. Overseas migration to countries such as Canada has also produced new challenges to Sikhs to think through the question of what the core of their tradition is and what aspects of their heritage are central in times far removed from Guru Nanak's and places distant from the Punjab. Twenty-four authoritative studies by scholars on four continents range across the contemporary Sikh experience in India and overseas. The contributors include experts on history, religion, literature, linguistics, politics, sociology and anthropology.
- Series Statement
- South Asian studies papers ; no. 3
- Uniform Title
- South Asian studies papers ; no. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Bibliography: p. [457]-486.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-486).
- Contents
- Part 1. Religion and culture -- Legacies of the Sikh past for the twentieth century / J.S. Grewal -- A Sikh theology for modern times / W.H. McLeod -- Ethical and spiritual aspects of Nam-simaran / Amarjit Singh Sethi -- Patterns of pluralism : Sikh relations with Radhasoami / Mark Juergensmeyer -- The secular heritage of the Sikhs / Sujit Hans -- Religious and secular strains in twentieth-century Punjabi poetry / Darshan Singh Maini -- Some observations on the evolution of modern standard Punjabi / Christopher Shackle -- Bengali perceptions of the Sikhs : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Himadri Banerjee -- Part 2. History and politics : India -- From ritual to counter-ritual : rethinking the Hindu-Sikh question, 1884-1915 / Harjot S. Oberoi -- Sikh politics in British Punjab prior to the Gurdwara reform movement / N. Gerald Barrier -- Akali struggle : past and present / Mohinder Singh -- Fox and the lions : the Akali movement revisited / Ian J. Kerr -- The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee and the politicisation of the Sikhs / Attar Singh -- The crisis of Sikh politics (1940-1947) / Indu Banga -- Sikh minority attitudes in India's federal system / Paul Wallace -- Part 3. History and society : diaspora -- Conceptions of Sikh culture in the development of a comparative analysis of the Sikh diaspora / Norman Buchignani -- Patterns of Sikh migration to Canada, 1900-1960 / Hugh Johnston -- Ethnicity confounded : Punjabi pioneers in California / Karen Leonard -- Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs : conflicting assertions of Sikh identity in North America / Verne A. Dusenbery -- Sikh identity in England : its changing nature / Arthur W. Helweg -- The presentation of Sikhs in recent children's literature in Britain / Eleanor M. Nesbitt -- The Sikh diaspora : its possible effects on Sikhism / Owen Cole -- Part 4. Comments on recent events -- The Sikhs and the challenge of the eighties / Patwant Singh -- Sikhs at the turn of the new century / Amerik Singh -- Postscript : comments from Toronto / Joseph T. O'Connell.
- ISBN
- 1895214033
- 9781895214031
- 0969290748
- 9780969290742
- 0969290756
- 9780969290759
- OCLC
- ocm19079237
- 19079237
- SCSB-1742792
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library