With a view to create awareness for the conservation of precious tangible heritage of the Sikh Community, the National Institute of Panjab Studies initiated a major project of digitizing and cataloguing rare Guru Granth Sahib Manuscripts located in different parts of India and abroad. In the course of this field work, nearly three hundred rare Guru Granth Sahib Birs have been located, out of Which more than two hundred and fifty have already been digitized. In ...
Parsi, Jaina and Sikhs, or, Some Minor Religious Sects in India
THE QUEST CONTINUES: An exploration across 90 cities and villages in Pakistan, which provides a strong impetus to anyone curious about the legacy that bears mute witness to the heart-wrenching partition of the subcontinent.
This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975. It tells the remarkable story of Thondup, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkim's independence after their 'fairytale' wedding This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived ...
Sikhs in Asia Pacific: Travels among the Sikh Diaspora from Yangon to Kobe
This book is the second in a global trilogy looking at the unreported Sikh diaspora comprising mainly the non-English speaking countries. The first one in the Sikh Global Village series was Sikhs in Latin America. This volume covers Sikhs in Asia Pacific countries. The third will be on Sikhs in Europe. The Asia Pacific region is a vital and under-recognized home for the Sikh diaspora. Before 1947, most Sikhs migrated east. In addition to the commonly known ...
The wise say truth is the most common thing available. It is all around us. Yet truth is called a rare thing, since we see it and do not receive it. It is so mixed with worldly noise that we cannot separate and contain it exclusively. It comes and goes with the changing din of daily chore. It is only when the faculties of the heart and the mind and their powers-intuitions, thoughts, emotions and visions-get strung properly, like the players and the musical ...
Lost Heritage- A journey West Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan Administered Kashmir, delving into the vestiges of a community compelled to move eastwards owing to the partition of the Indian sub-continent. Provides insight by investigating the relinqueshed heritage spanning between 15th and 21st centuries. The 6 Chapter narrative in 504 pages is interspersed with 507 photographs of histroic monuments, forts, battlegrounds, commercial and residential ...
The Granth of Guru Gobind Singh: Essays, Lectures, and Translations
In the Granth of Guru Gobind Singh, the authors offer new insights into the Sikh scripture Dasam Patshah Ka Gra?th , or the Dasam Gra?th, which has traditionally been attributed to Guru Gobind Singh. While many studies have adopted a polemic approach and focused on the authorship of the text, this book takes a multi-disciplinary approach and considers the relationship of the scripture with the newly discovered manuscripts, apocryphal translations, and relics. ...
Beyond Otherness: Sikhism: New Mystical Experience and Interfaith Dialogue
Sikhism has a rich legacy of interfaith dialogue however, general survey of Sikh literature shows that intensive studies on interfaith dialogue are very few. In fact, Sikhism has been ignored in the studies of religion. Now the situation is changing, people from different traditions are eager to know about others. Moreover, in contemporary thought thinkers are recognizing the multiplicity of the truth. The scholars from different traditions are trying to ...
In this perceptive work, dr. Harish dhillon highlights the lives and times of the ten sikh gurus, beginning with guru nanak, who founded sikhism in 1469 and ending with guru gobind singh, who established the khalsa panth in 1699. It throws light on how the gurus acquired profound knowledge and wisdom, which they sought to pass on to the common people through their teachings. Their life histories show how they sincerely practised what they preached and how they ...
The Silence of the Many: The Fallout of Operation Blue Star
Even into seven decades of political independence the lndian nation strives to achieve social freedom for its masses. Among the various kinds of social malaise the most debilitating is the occurrence of periodic communal violence. In the lndian context the fault lines straddle religious, caste, ethnic, linguistic or economic class contours. This book is a testimony to the depravity of 1984 in the country extending to many years thereafter, following army action ...
Understanding the Spiritual Dialogues: Siddha Goshti
The Siddha Goshti is Guru Nanak’s dialogues with some sages. These sages had renounced the world and were living in caves in the Himalayas. They were yogis who believed in practising physical and mental exercises for the attainment ofspiritual powers (siddhis), which would ultimately lead to moksha (liberation). These dialogues are a summary of Guru Nanak’s views on life in general and spirituality in particular. While these ascetics asserted that one ...
