The Eighteenth Century in Sikh History: Political Resurgence, Religious and Social Life, and Cultural...

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Karamjit K. Malhotra (, Assistant Professor in the Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.)

The Eighteenth Century in Sikh History

Political Resurgence, Religious and Social Life, and Cultural Articulation

Karamjit K. Malhotra (, Assistant Professor in the Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.)

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English

OUP India
17 March 2016

Asian history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Sikhism

The eighteenth century in Sikh history stands for a political revolution in which the erstwhile peasants and artisans who had joined the Khalsa order instituted by Guru Gobind Singh replaced first the Mughal and then the Afghan authority in the province of Lahore (Punjab). Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, the present study takes a fresh look at the political processes, and explores for the first time the accompanying transformation in the religious, social, and cultural life of the Sikhs. The aspects specifically taken up for study are the political resurgence of the Sikhs; their system of government; conception of God and the Guru; the institution of Gurdwara and the emergence of Amritsar as the premier centre of the Sikh world; rites, ceremonies, and ethics of the Khalsa; vertical and horizontal lines of demarcation among them; issues of caste and gender; literary articulation of the Sikhs; and their interest in art and architecture. A convergence of all these developments led to the crystallization of a distinctive Sikh identity by the end of the century. In a very real sense, the eighteenth century emerges in this book as a bridge between the earlier and later history of the Sikhs.

By: Karamjit K. Malhotra ( Assistant Professor in the Department of Punjab Historical Studies Punjabi University Patiala.)
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780199463541
ISBN 10: 0199463549
Pages: 794
Publication Date: 17 March 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.