Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0195663152
Length
xii+296p., References; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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This penetrating volume is one of the first to chart the history of gender construction in Sikhism. Focusing specifically on the Singh Sabha reform movement—spearheaded by British-educated Sikhs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—it analyses the development of gender ideals under the Sikh Gurus, and their adaptation and in some cases transformation by the new intellectual elite. The Singh Sabha reform movement aimed at resurrecting the ...
