Karamjit K Malhotra

Gebundenes Buch

The Eighteenth Century in Sikh History

Political Resurgence, Religious and Social Life, and Cultural Articulation

Beschreibung

This book is based on a wide range of the eighteenth-century sources. It bridges the earlier and later periods of Sikh history. In addition to the political struggle of the Khalsa, their polity, religious developments, and literary and artistic expressions, this study examines the issues of caste, gender, ethics, rites and ceremonies, and concludes with a discussion of heightened consciousness of distinctive Sikh identity by the end of the period.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199463541
• ISBN-10: 0199463549
• Artikelnr.: 47866806