A History of the Sikhs
Author | : Khushwant Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sikhism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Khushwant Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sikhism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louis E. Fenech |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1442236019 |
Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in northwest India. Today the total number of Sikhs is approximately twenty million worldwide. About a million live outside India, constituting a significant minority in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Many of them are highly visible, particularly the men, who wear beards and turbans, and they naturally attract attention in their new countries of domicile. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sikhism covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key persons, organizations, the principles, precepts and practices of the religion as well as the history, culture and social arrangements. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sikhism.
Author | : Institute of Sikh Studies (Chandīgarh, India) |
Publisher | : Chandigarh, India : Institute of Sikh Studies |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Contributed articles.
Author | : Sangat Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sikhism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Davey Cunningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Punjab (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pashaura Singh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Contributed papers presented at a conference.
Author | : Eleanor M. Nesbitt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198745575 |
An accessible introduction to the world's fifth largest religion, this work presents Sikhism's meanings and myths, and its practices, rituals, and festivals, also addressing ongoing social issues such as the relationship with the Indian state, the diaspora, and caste.
Author | : Khushwant Singh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patwant Singh |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0720615240 |
The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and charismatic Indian rulers of his ageRanjit Singh has been largely written out of accounts of the subcontinent's past by recent Western historians, yet he had an impact that lasts to this day. He unified the warring chiefdoms of the Punjab into an extraordinary northern Empire of the Sikhs, built up a formidable modern army, kept the British in check to the south of his realm, and closed the Khyber Pass through which plunderers had for centuries poured into India. Unique among empire builders, he was humane and just, gave employment to defeated foes, honored religious faiths other than his own, and included Hindus and Muslims among his ministers. In person he was a colorful character whose his court was renowned for its splendor; he had 20 wives, kept a regiment of "Amazons," and possessed a stable of thousands of horses. The authors make use of a variety of eyewitness accounts from Indian and European sources, from reports of Maratha spies at the Lahore Durbar to British parliamentary papers and travel accounts. The story includes the range of the maharaja's military achievements and ends with an account of the controversial period of the Anglo-Sikh Wars following his death, which saw the fall of his empire while in the hands of his successors.
Author | : University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies |
Publisher | : South Asia Books |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Some fourteen million Sikhs worldwide are heirs today to a tradition of faith recalling the devotional spirituality of Guru Nanak, who lived in the Punjab five hundred years ago. The twentieth century has witnessed a heightening of Sikhs' self-awareness as a community with an identity and aspirations distinct from their Hindu as well as their Muslim neighbours. Overseas migration to countries such as Canada has also produced new challenges to Sikhs to think through the question of what the core of their tradition is and what aspects of their heritage are central in times far removed from Guru Nanak's and places distant from the Punjab. Twenty-four authoritative studies by scholars on four continents range across the contemporary Sikh experience in India and overseas. The contributors include experts on history, religion, literature, linguistics, politics, sociology and anthropology.