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The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Oxford Handbooks Online The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech Print Publication Date: Mar 2014 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Apr 2014 (p. iv) Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2014 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2014 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. 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Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press Page 1 of 2 The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2013952973 ISBN 978–0–19–969930–8 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. Page 2 of 2 Front Matter The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Dedication Preface List of Contributors Introduction Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech Part I Historical Expressions An Overview of Sikh History Pashaura Singh The Evolution of the Sikh Community Louis E. Fenech Sikhism in the Eighteenth Century Purnima Dhavan The Sikh Kingdom Sunit Singh Colonial Formations of Sikhism Navdeep S. Mandair Sikhs in Independent India Joginder Singh Representations of Sikh History Anne Murphy Part II Literary Expressions Survey of Literature in the Sikh Tradition Christopher Shackle The Guru Granth Sahib Pashaura Singh The Dasam Granth Robin Rinehart The Works of Bhai Gurdas Rahuldeep Singh Gill The Works of Bhai Nand Lal Goya Louis E. Fenech Sectarian Works Hardip Singh Syan Precolonial Sikh Literature Toby Braden Johnson Sikhism in TwentiethCentury Punjabi Literature Tejwant Singh Gill ‘Western’ Writers on the Sikhs Harpreet Singh Linguistic and Philological Approaches to Sacred Sikh Literature Michael C. Shapiro Part III Ideological Expressions Gurmat: The Teachings of the Gurus Pashaura Singh The Khalsa and the Rahit Louis E. Fenech Sikh Interactions with Other Religions W. Owen Cole Secular and Religious (Miri/Piri) Domains in Sikhism: Frames for Sikh Politics Virinder S. Kalra Sikh Nationalism Giorgio Shani Postcolonial and Postmodern Perspectives on Sikhism Balbinder Singh Bhogal Sikh Philosophy ArvindPal Singh Mandair Part IV Institutional Expressions Sikh Institutions Michael Hawley Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee: An Overview Kashmir Singh The Shiromani Akali Dal Amarjit Singh Narang Sikh Sects Opinderjit Kaur Takhar Sikh Sants and Their Establishments in India and Abroad Eleanor Nesbitt Taksals, Akharas, and Nihang Deras Paramjit Singh Judge Global Sikhism Mark Juergensmeyer Part V Artistic Expressions Sikh Music Gurnam Singh Sikh Cultural Performances Michael Nijhawan Sikh Art NikkyGuninder Kaur Singh The Darbar Sahib Charles M. Townsend The Khalsa Heritage Complex William J. Glover Sikh Material Culture Anne Murphy Sikh Martial Art (Gatkā) Kamalroop Singh Sikhi through Internet, Films, and Videos Susan Elizabeth Prill Sikh Culture and Punjābiyat Pritam Singh and Meena Dhanda Part VI Diasporic Expressions The Sikh Diaspora Darshan Singh Tatla Sikhs in Mainland European Countries Kristina Myrvold Sikhs as a Racial and Religious Minority in the US Jaideep Singh Sikhs Living Beyond Punjab in India Himadri Banerjee Sikh Migration, Diasporas, and Transnational Practices Shinder Singh Thandi Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs Verne A. Dusenbery ‘Khalistan’ as Political Critique Cynthia Keppley Mahmood Part VII Expressions of Caste and Gender in the Panth Changing Manifestations of Caste in the Sikh Panth Surinder S. Jodhka Gender in Sikh Traditions Doris R. Jakobsh A Feminist Interpretation of Sikh Scripture NikkyGuninder Kaur Singh Part VIII Future Trajectories New Directions in Sikh Studies Pashaura Singh End Matter Index Dedication Oxford Handbooks Online Dedication The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech Print Publication Date: Mar 2014 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Apr 2014 Dedication (p. v) Dedicated to the memory of Harbans Singh, W. H. McLeod, N. Gerald Barrier, and W. Owen Cole pioneers in the field of Sikh Studies Page 1 of 1 Preface Oxford Handbooks Online Preface The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech Print Publication Date: Mar 2014 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Apr 2014 Preface (p. vi) (p. vii) THE Oxford University Press has been publishing substantial academic texts in their Handbook series of which there are now well over one hundred. These texts are geared towards advanced graduate students as well as research scholars, and often include the world’s leading authorities on the respective subjects of each individual Handbook. What make these texts so exciting are their scope and the fact that they often set the pace of the particular field with which they deal. The Oxford University Press handpicked one of the editors, Pashaura Singh, from an international pool of scholars in the field of Sikh Studies, who then selected a co-editor, Louis E. Fenech, to assist him in this project. After going through the review process the proposal for this new research project was formally approved by the Delegates of the Oxford University Press. The present Handbook contains fifty-one essays by a team of international experts in the field of Sikh Studies, integrating the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and, in many ways, post- colonial perspectives on the nature of religion, society, literature, art, institutions, gender, diaspora, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. It will provide a suitably lucid and critically nuanced volume which integrates all of these perspectives into a single framework, an innovation well in keeping with the mandate of the new series of Oxford Handbooks. This volume is being published online first, to be followed by the print edition in 2013–14. Our foremost gratitude goes to Tom Perridge, Commissioning Editor, Oxford University Press (UK), for inviting us to bring out this timely volume in the field of Sikh Studies. We thank Elizabeth Robottom, Alexander Johnson, Alixandra Gould, and Molly Davis for overseeing this project in both online and print publications. We also acknowledge the support of the Dr Jasbir Singh Saini Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Dr Jasbir Singh Saini Trust and the Sikh Foundation of Palo Alto, California. As a matter of fact this volume has been a significant venture for us, and we would like to thank our esteemed authors for their patience and collaboration, Page 1 of 2 Preface and for accepting our critique of their work in the process of revision with grace and perseverance. This Handbook is divided into eight parts, covering historical, literary, ideological, institutional, artistic, diasporic, and social expressions of Sikhi (‘Sikh-ness’), ending with future trajectories. Although the essays are well documented and discuss certain sensitive issues in a scholarly fashion, the interpretations are the responsibility of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the editors, sponsors of the volume, or the publishers. Some contributors withdrew from this project at the eleventh hour for personal reasons. We wish to record our gratitude both to those (p. viii) colleagues who met the deadlines and those who stepped in at short notice to fill unanticipated gaps. Our earnest thanks go to our spouses, Baljeet K. Singh and Christine Fenech, who provided their unflinching support on a number of occasions when we were facing some let-downs. This volume is dedicated to four great pioneers in the field of Sikh Studies—Harbans Singh (1921–98), W. H. McLeod (1932–2009), N. Gerald Barrier (1940– 2010) and W. Owen Cole (1931–2013)—with gratitude for their scholarly contributions and admiration for their vision. They have been the trailblazers for new generations of scholars. Pashaura Singh Louis E. Fenech 30 April 2013 Page 2 of 2 List of Contributors Oxford Handbooks Online List of Contributors The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies Edited by Pashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech Print Publication Date: Mar 2014 Subject: Religion Online Publication Date: Apr 2014 List of Contributors (p. xiv) (p. xv) Himadri Banerjee is Professor Emeritus of Indian History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His work focuses on the changes in the agrarian economy and society of Punjab under colonial rule and the history of Sikhs beyond Punjab in India. His publications include Agrarian Society of the Punjab, 1849–1901 (Manohar, 1982) and The Other Sikhs, vol. i (Manohar, 2003). His articles on Sikh migration and settlement to distant parts of India are published in different journals and edited volumes in Sikh Studies. Balbinder Singh Bhogal is Associate Professor of Religion and Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies, at Hofstra University, New York. His research is focused at the intersection of various discourses of Continental and Indic philosophy, mysticism and decolonization, translation and hermeneutics. Recent publications are ‘Oak Creek Killings: The Denial of a Culture of Oppression’, editorial for SOPHIA (2012); ‘The Hermeneutics of Sikh Music (rāg) and Word (shabad)’, Sikh Formations (2011); ‘Decolonizations: Cleaving Gestures that Refuse the Alien Call for Identity Politics’, Religions of South Asia (2010); ‘Sikh Dharam and Postcolonialism: Hegel, Religion and Zizek’, Australian Religion Studies Review (2012); and ‘The Animal Sublime: Rethinking the Sikh Mystical Body’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2012). Page 1 of 15
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