Religion, Violence, and the Performance of Sikh History

Name: Religion, Violence, and the Performance of Sikh History
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ISBN: 9780195679670

ISBN-10: 0195679679

ISBN-13: 9780195679670

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Nijhawan

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The dhadis (or songs sung by minstrels) have exercised considerable influence amongst rural Sikhs, relating martial traditions concerning Guru Hargobind, Guru Gobind Singh, and other Sikh heroes.This book is a historical and anthropological study of the dhadi tradition and how it has influenced notions of martyrdom and violence in the Sikh community. The author draws on a wide range of unexplored historical and ethnographical sources on the rhetorical culture in Punjab and argues that religion is an evolving area of social interaction, thus giving rise to narrative linkages between religious and political discourse. He establishes that vernacular traditions of oral narration…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 286
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.43" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




Cultural geography and the Dhadi past



Sikh religious aesthetics and the gendered Dhadi voice



A new Dhadi subject in colonial Punjab



The event as monument : reading Saka Shahidganj



The vicissitudes of partition memory : literary genres and the Dhadi voice



Realignments of agency : Dhadi rhetoric and the martyr image



Interpellated subjects and formation of the Dhadi Sabha



The making of a border genre



Saka Shahidganj




Dhadi performative style



Instrumentation



Glossary of Punjabi terms