Oxford University Press, 2011. — 272 p. Challenging the commonly accepted belief that the distinctive rituals, ceremonies, and cultural practices associated with the Khalsa were formed during the lifetime of the Tenth and last Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, Purnima Dhavan reveals how such markers of Khalsa identity evolved slowly over the course of the eighteenth century. By focusing...
New Delhi: Tulika; Indian History Congress, 2001. — 228 p. — ISBN: 81-85229-17-1. This volume is a part of the research and publication programme of the Indian History Congress to commemorate the tercentenary of the Khalsa. It presents translations of all major Persian sources of the Sikh history up to 1765, when Sikh power was established over the Punjab. These Sources offer...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that they were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising of sufficient...
London: 1923. — 170 p. This little book is written with the object of giving to the general public some idea of one of our most loyal Indian sects; though its numbers are comparatively few, yet it played no small share in upholding the traditions of the British Empire in no less than six theatres of war. No true picture would be complete without some account of the environment...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 672 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-969930-8. The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide...
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