Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity
Art, Music and Philology
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-46426-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-46426-8 (ISBN)
Cultivating Sikh Identity and Culture explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the ‘cultivation of culture’. Investigating diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, this book is of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.
Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the concept of ‘cultivation of culture’. It investigates diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, and considers their role in the making of a continuous living tradition.
The volume focuses particularly on the imperial encounter and intellectual interaction between coloniser and colonised. It emphasises the enduring importance of the modern rational approach of the Singh Sabha (Tat Khalsa) reformers in defining a normative Sikh tradition. In so doing, the author reflects on the importance of philological research and the complexity of modern knowledge production in relation to the formation of cultural identities. The chapters offer a critical historical overview of the changes in the performance and reception of Sikh devotional music in the context of the community’s successive encounters with the Mughals, the British and globalisation. They also provide new insights into the life and work of Max Arthur Macauliffe, author of the classic The Sikh Religion (1909), and a contextualised discussion of contemporary Sikh drawings by Emily de Klerk.
Taking a global, interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.
Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the concept of ‘cultivation of culture’. It investigates diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, and considers their role in the making of a continuous living tradition.
The volume focuses particularly on the imperial encounter and intellectual interaction between coloniser and colonised. It emphasises the enduring importance of the modern rational approach of the Singh Sabha (Tat Khalsa) reformers in defining a normative Sikh tradition. In so doing, the author reflects on the importance of philological research and the complexity of modern knowledge production in relation to the formation of cultural identities. The chapters offer a critical historical overview of the changes in the performance and reception of Sikh devotional music in the context of the community’s successive encounters with the Mughals, the British and globalisation. They also provide new insights into the life and work of Max Arthur Macauliffe, author of the classic The Sikh Religion (1909), and a contextualised discussion of contemporary Sikh drawings by Emily de Klerk.
Taking a global, interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.
Bob van der Linden studies modern South Asian cultural history in a global context. His previous publications include Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyahs (2008), Music and Empire in Britain and India: Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication (2013), Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music (2018) and Romantic Nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas (2024).
1. The Gurus’ Hymns at the Sikh Courts 2. Sikh Devotional Music, Empire and Globalisation 3. Max Arthur Macauliffe and the Sikhs 4. Visual Representations in Macauliffe’s The Sikh Religion 5. Aryanism, Martial Race Theory and Sikh Identity 6. Emily’s Eden: Contemporary Sikh Drawings
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Critical Sikh Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 510 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-46426-7 / 1032464267 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-46426-8 / 9781032464268 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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