This book is based on a wide range of the eighteenth-century sources. It bridges the earlier and later periods of Sikh history. In addition to the political struggle of the Khalsa, their polity, religious developments, and literary and artistic expressions, this study examines the issues of caste, gender, ethics, rites and ceremonies, and concludes with a discussion of heightened consciousness of distinctive Sikh identity by the end of the period.
This book is based on a wide range of the eighteenth-century sources. It bridges the earlier and later periods of Sikh history. In addition to the political struggle of the Khalsa, their polity, religious developments, and literary and artistic expressions, this study examines the issues of caste, gender, ethics, rites and ceremonies, and concludes with a discussion of heightened consciousness of distinctive Sikh identity by the end of the period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karamjit K. Malhotra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. She has edited a book titled The Punjab Revisited: Social Order, Economic Life, Cultural Articulation, Politics, and Partition (18th20th Centuries) , and published over a dozen research papers on Sikh history in national and international journals. Currently, she is working on a historical analysis of the Sikh literature of the eighteenth century.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Figures ix * Preface xi * Acknowledgements xiii * Introduction: Scope, Sources, and Debate about Dates 1 * Part I Sikh Political Resurgence and Sikh Polity * 1: 'R j Kareg Kh ls ' 19 * 2: The Khalsa R j (176599) 59 * Part II Religious and Social Life * 3: God, Guru, and Gurdw r 101 * 4: Rites and Ceremonies 142 * 5: Ethical Concerns of the Khalsa 170 * 6: The Sikh Social Order: Composition, Caste, and Gender 192 * Part III Cultural Articulation * 7: The Old and New Literary Forms 233 * 8: Painting and Architecture 256 * Conclusion: Convergence on Sikh Identity 281 * Appendix: The Goddess in Eighteenth-Century Sikh Literature 290 * Glossary 301 * Select Bibliography 313 * Index 329 * About the Author 342
* List of Figures ix * Preface xi * Acknowledgements xiii * Introduction: Scope, Sources, and Debate about Dates 1 * Part I Sikh Political Resurgence and Sikh Polity * 1: 'R j Kareg Kh ls ' 19 * 2: The Khalsa R j (176599) 59 * Part II Religious and Social Life * 3: God, Guru, and Gurdw r 101 * 4: Rites and Ceremonies 142 * 5: Ethical Concerns of the Khalsa 170 * 6: The Sikh Social Order: Composition, Caste, and Gender 192 * Part III Cultural Articulation * 7: The Old and New Literary Forms 233 * 8: Painting and Architecture 256 * Conclusion: Convergence on Sikh Identity 281 * Appendix: The Goddess in Eighteenth-Century Sikh Literature 290 * Glossary 301 * Select Bibliography 313 * Index 329 * About the Author 342
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