Five Centuries Of Sikh Tradition

Author : Reeta Grewal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064137147

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Five Centuries of Sikh Tradition by Reeta Grewal Pdf

These Pathbreaking Essays By Historians, Geographers, Economists And Scholars In Sikh Religion And Punjabi Literature Cover The Whole Span Of Sikh History And Nearly All Its Important Aspects. The Study Covers Sikhism And The Martial And Political Culture Of The Khalsa. Sikh Patronage Of Painting, Journalism, Demographic Change, And Spatial Dispersal Along With The Diaspora Have Also Been Dealt With In This Volume. Contributors Who Have Made This Volume Possible As A Tribute To Professor Indu Banga Include J.S. Grewal, Iqtidar Alam Khan, Joginder Singh, Darshan Singh Tatla, Shinder Singh Thandi, And Gurinder Singh Mann Among Many Others.

Author : J. S. Grewal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Punjab (India)
ISBN : 0199080429

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History, Literature, and Identity by J. S. Grewal Pdf

This book examines the entire range of sacred literature produced between the sixteenth and nineteenth century to give a comprehensive account of Sikhism. Dealing with the historical evolution of the Sikh tradition, it discuss issues like self-image, identity, and ideology.

Author : University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014953361

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Sikh History and Religion in the Twentieth Century by University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies Pdf

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.

Author : Louis E. Fenech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197532867

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The Cherished Five in Sikh History by Louis E. Fenech Pdf

On the 30th of March, 1699, the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh called together a special assembly at the Keshgarh Fort at Anandpur. Following the morning devotions, the Guru asked for a volunteer, saying, "The entire sangat is very dear to me; but is there a devoted Sikh who will give his head to me here and now? A need has arisen at this moment which calls for a head." One man arose and followed the Guru out of the room. When the Guru returned to the assembly with a bloodied sword, he asked for another volunteer. Another man followed. This was repeated three more times, until at last the Guru emerged with a clean sword and all five men alive and well. Those five volunteers would become the first disciples of the Khalsa, the martial community within the Sikh religion, and would come to be known as the Panj Piare, or the Cherished Five. Despite the centrality of this group to modern Sikhism, scholarship on the Panj Piare has remained sparse. Louis Fenech's new book examines the Khalsa and the role that the the Panj Piare have had in the development of the Sikh faith over the past three centuries.

Author : W. H. McLeod
Publisher : Delhi : Oxford University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046459486

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The Evolution of the Sikh Community by W. H. McLeod Pdf

Author : J. S. Grewal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190990381

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Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) by J. S. Grewal Pdf

The unifying theme in the life of Guru Gobind Singh was confrontation with the Mughals, which culminated in a struggle for political power. This fact is brought into sharp focus when we consider the Guru’s life and legacy simultaneously in the contexts of the Mughal Empire, its feudatory states in the hills, and the Sikh movement. The creation of the Khalsa in 1699 as a political community with the aspiration to rule made conciliation or compromise with the Mughal state almost impossible. Their long struggle ended eventually in the declaration of Khalsa Raj in 1765. Using contemporary and near contemporary sources in Gurmukhi, Persian, and English, J.S. Grewal presents a comprehensive study of this era of Sikh history. The volume elaborates on the life and legacy of Guru Gobind Singh and explores the ideological background of the institution of the Khalsa and its larger political context. Grewal, however, emphasizes that the legacy of the Khalsa was also social and cultural. This authoritative volume on the tenth Guru is a significant addition to the field of Sikh studies.

Author : Doris Jakobsh
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860349

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Sikhism by Doris Jakobsh Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of Sikhism, which originated in India's Punjab region five hundred years ago. As the numbers of Sikhs settling outside of India continues to grow, it is necessary to examine this religion both in its Indian context and as an increasingly global tradition. While acknowledging the centrality of history and text in understanding the main tenets of Sikhism, Doris Jakobsh highlights the religion's origins and development as a living spiritual tradition in communities around the world. She pays careful attention to particular events, movements, and individuals that have contributed to important changes within the tradition and challenges stereotypical notions of Sikh homogeneity and stasis, addressing the plurality of identities within the Sikh tradition, both historically and within the contemporary milieu. Extensive attention is paid to the role of women as well as the dominant social and kinship structures undergirding Punjabi Sikh society, many of which have been widely transplanted through Sikh migration. The migration patterns are themselves examined, with particular focus on Sikh communities in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Finally, the volume concludes with a brief exploration of Sikhs and the Internet and the future of Sikhism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sikhism
ISBN : UOM:39015021590958

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Perspectives on the Sikh Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harjot Oberoi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226615928

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The Construction of Religious Boundaries by Harjot Oberoi Pdf

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.

Author : Maria Power,Helen Paynter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031178047

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Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts by Maria Power,Helen Paynter Pdf

This volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and peace in relation to its sacred text. The traditions covered are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. The role of religion in conflict, war, and the creation of peaceful settlements has attracted much academic attention, including considerations of the interpretation of violence in sacred texts. This collection breaks new ground by bringing multiple faiths into conversation with one another with specific regard to the handling of violence and peace in sacred texts. This combination of close attention to text and expansive scope of religious inclusion is the first of its kind.

Author : Louis E. Fenech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197532850

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The Cherished Five in Sikh History by Louis E. Fenech Pdf

On the 30th of March, 1699, the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh called together a special assembly at the Keshgarh Fort at Anandpur. Following the morning devotions, the Guru asked for a volunteer, saying, "The entire sangat is very dear to me; but is there a devoted Sikh who will give his head to me here and now? A need has arisen at this moment which calls for a head." One man arose and followed the Guru out of the room. When the Guru returned to the assembly with a bloodied sword, he asked for another volunteer. Another man followed. This was repeated three more times, until at last the Guru emerged with a clean sword and all five men alive and well. Those five volunteers would become the first disciples of the Khalsa, the martial community within the Sikh religion, and would come to be known as the Panj Piare, or the Cherished Five. Despite the centrality of this group to modern Sikhism, scholarship on the Panj Piare has remained sparse. Louis Fenech's new book examines the Khalsa and the role that the the Panj Piare have had in the development of the Sikh faith over the past three centuries.

Author : Sulakhan Singh
Publisher : Abs Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015052293803

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Heterodoxy in the Sikh Tradition by Sulakhan Singh Pdf

History of Udāsī Sect in Sikhism.

Author : Joseph T. O'Connell,Milton Israel,Willard Gurdon Oxtoby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Sikhism
ISBN : 1895214033

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Sikh History and Religion in the Twentieth Century by Joseph T. O'Connell,Milton Israel,Willard Gurdon Oxtoby Pdf

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen,Mikael Aktor,Kristina Myrvold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317675952

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Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions by Knut A. Jacobsen,Mikael Aktor,Kristina Myrvold Pdf

Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of these objects and their use is a theme which cuts across the religious traditions in the pluralistic religious culture of the region. Divine power becomes manifest in the objects and for the devotees they may represent power regardless of religious identity. This book looks at how objects of worship dominate the religious landscape of South Asia, and in what ways they are of significance not just from religious perspectives but also for the social life of the region. The contributions to the book show how these objects are shaped by traditions of religious aesthetics and have become conceptual devices woven into webs of religious and social meaning. They demonstrate how the objects have a social relationship with those who use them, sometimes even treated as being alive. The book discusses how devotees relate to such objects in a number of ways, and even if the objects belong to various traditions they may attract people from different communities and can also be contested in various ways. By analysing the specific qualities that make objects eligible for a status and identity as living objects of worship, the book contributes to an understanding of the central significance of these objects in the religious and social life of South Asia. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Religious Studies and South Asian Religion, Culture and Society.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607177

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Approaches to History by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.