Materiality of the Past
History and Representation in Sikh Tradition
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2012
326 pages
978-0-19-991628-3 (ISBN)
Description
Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social construction.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Related Conventions
- 1. Introduction: The Forms of Memory and History
- 2. Sikh Materialities
- SECTION I: The Past in the Sikh Imagination
- 3. Writing the Community: Literary Sources from the Eighteenth Century
- 4. Into the Nineteenth Century: History and Sovereignty
- SECTION II: Possessing the Past
- 5. A History of Possession
- 6. Colonial Governance and Gurdwara Reform
- 7. Territory and the Definition of Being Sikh
- 8. Conclusion: Community, Territory, and the Afterlife of the Object
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
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- S
- T
- U
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