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HRD is the process of enabling the people of tribal areas for enhancing their capabilities and skills by use of the existing infrastructure facilities available through different institutions of social welfare and social service. The book is based on the opinion of the tribal people and their representatives of traditional institutions. It is based on the assumption that the maximum individual autonomy, increasing responsibility, participative decision making and ...
Guru Tegh Bahadur's passion in life was to fight for human rights and freedom of the oppressed people, irrespective of their creed and ideology. All his teachings demonstrate his deep faith in God. In most of his hymns, the Guru has reiterated that God is within us. God is not an abstract idea, or a myth, but a visible reality. There is no need to go to the forest in search of God, or on pilgrimages. One has to find him within. From Manmaukh to Gurumukh—from ...
The collection of papers being presented here is conceived in a genuine ecumenical spirit without being unfair to the rightful claims of the Sikh identity. Some of these papers were presented in the International conferences in India and abroad. Majority of the papers concern the study of basic Sikh themes. Papers relating to other traditions have the distinction of being approved by the scholars and laymen belonging to those traditions.
The main aim of any source book is to offer available source materials on any particular subject at one place. The present endeavour in bringing out the inaccessible rare papers and other selected writings by the earliest western writers on the Sikh religion, in the form of this volume is inspired by the same concern. The source book promises to fill the long awaited gap of information for the interested scholars and general readers for further studies in the ...
This book profiles Santa Ravidasa, one of the brightest luminaries in the firmament of medieval Indian bhaktic renaissance. His life and thought constitute an important facet of the history of Vaisnavism and Sikhism. A useful book for all students of Indian piety and theology. In one sense the life and personality of Santa Ravidasa illustrate one of the great sayings of the Buddha: " na jacca vasalo hoti, na jacca hoti brahmano. Kammuna vasalo hoti, ...