Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2104028
Rebekah Cumpsty
ABSTRACT Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination (2013) situates secularism and religious discourse within national and colonial contexts. His literary critical approach, which brings postcolonial critiques of nationalism to bear on the literary registration of secularism, has informed my own work in sub-Saharan African fiction. I focus on Ratti's postcolonial analysis of the secular; his conceptualization of the postsecular as an imaginative and recuperative humanist ethic that foregrounds ‘powerful modes of living together in spite of the divides of religion and nation’ (Ratti 2013, xviii); and finally how the Nigerian writer, Okey Ndibe, engages with the secular, religion, and the nation as flawed, incomplete projects.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2104030
R. Saikumar
ABSTRACT In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ratti, subtly, provides a capacious and emancipatory conception of secularism itself that is particularly productive for the post-2014 phase we inhabit. Third, I turn to Dalit literature as a site where rationalism is evoked in a way that is not reductive and bureaucratic in the Weberian sense. Might Ambedkar-inspired Dalit texts help us rethink rationality more capaciously?
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2104029
S. Obirek
ABSTRACT This article argues that among Manav Ratti's distinctive theorizations of postsecularism in his landmark book The Postsecular Imagination (Routledge, 2013) is the concept's function as a hermeneutical key for inspiring critical analyses and insights across both secularism and religion. I juxtapose Ratti's book with some of the proposals for understanding postsecularism in Europe. The difference in understanding postsecularism in the Indian subcontinent and in Europe is related to different historical and cultural experiences, especially with reference to colonial heritage.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2090793
Atsushi Ikeda
ABSTRACT Today, single portraits representing Guru Nanak are very popular among the Sikhs and are frequently hung on the walls of houses and temples. It is during the Singh Sabha Movement from the 1870s that portraits of Guru Nanak came to be hung on the walls of Sikhs' temple and house by the urban middle class. Wall-hung portraits of Guru Nanak symbolises the uniqueness of Sikhism and, since they were painted both in a unique three-quarter face and in a Hindu-like frontal, Guru Nanak portraiture has played a pivotal role in social cohesion among the Sikhs who belonged to different factions.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2090069
Gurharpal Singh
Paul R. Brass, the doyen of Indian political science in the USA for almost five decades, died at his home in Acme, WA, on 31 May 2022, at the age of 85, with his wife Susan by his side. For the last few years, Paul had been suffering from Alzheimer’s and was buried on 2 June. He is survived by his wife, daughter, Leah Sarah Livesey (Itzik), and son, David Michael Brass. Paul was born on 8 November 1936, in Boston, MA to Albert and Eva Brass née Bavely. He attended the Boston Latin School from 1948 to 1954. In 1958 he graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in Government. He received his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1959 that was followed by a Ph.D in Political Science in 1964 also from the University of Chicago. In 1965 Paul started teaching at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, where he remained until 1999 when he retired as professor emeritus of political science and international studies. In a long and distinguished academic career that spanned five decades, Paul’s name became synonymous with government and politics in India, ethnicity and nationalism, communal violence, and latterly, biographical work. He published 13 monographs, several edited volumes and numerous articles and other publications. Among his most celebrated and widely read works are Language, Religion and Politics in North India (1974), Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison (1991), The Politics of India since Independence (1994), The Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997), The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003), and An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1957–1967 (three volumes 2012). From the mid-1960s, while he was working on Uttar Pradesh, Paul took a keen interest in developments in the Punjab, and conducted extensive interviews with key participants involved in the Punjabi Suba movement. This research formed the core of his thesis in Language, Religion and Politics in North India which became the foundational text of the instrumentalist perspective on ethnicity and nationality formation and led to a celebrated debate between him and Francis Robinson whose work on Muslim separatism in northern India is associated with the contrasting primordial position. Paul was well ahead of his time in explaining the dynamics of nationality formation as a result of elite choices and explaining this phenomenon in a comparative, India and global context. For scholars of Sikh nationalism, this remains the primary political science text which has set the standard that remains hard to surpass.
{"title":"Paul R. Brass: An appreciation","authors":"Gurharpal Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2090069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2090069","url":null,"abstract":"Paul R. Brass, the doyen of Indian political science in the USA for almost five decades, died at his home in Acme, WA, on 31 May 2022, at the age of 85, with his wife Susan by his side. For the last few years, Paul had been suffering from Alzheimer’s and was buried on 2 June. He is survived by his wife, daughter, Leah Sarah Livesey (Itzik), and son, David Michael Brass. Paul was born on 8 November 1936, in Boston, MA to Albert and Eva Brass née Bavely. He attended the Boston Latin School from 1948 to 1954. In 1958 he graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in Government. He received his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1959 that was followed by a Ph.D in Political Science in 1964 also from the University of Chicago. In 1965 Paul started teaching at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, where he remained until 1999 when he retired as professor emeritus of political science and international studies. In a long and distinguished academic career that spanned five decades, Paul’s name became synonymous with government and politics in India, ethnicity and nationalism, communal violence, and latterly, biographical work. He published 13 monographs, several edited volumes and numerous articles and other publications. Among his most celebrated and widely read works are Language, Religion and Politics in North India (1974), Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison (1991), The Politics of India since Independence (1994), The Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997), The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003), and An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1957–1967 (three volumes 2012). From the mid-1960s, while he was working on Uttar Pradesh, Paul took a keen interest in developments in the Punjab, and conducted extensive interviews with key participants involved in the Punjabi Suba movement. This research formed the core of his thesis in Language, Religion and Politics in North India which became the foundational text of the instrumentalist perspective on ethnicity and nationality formation and led to a celebrated debate between him and Francis Robinson whose work on Muslim separatism in northern India is associated with the contrasting primordial position. Paul was well ahead of his time in explaining the dynamics of nationality formation as a result of elite choices and explaining this phenomenon in a comparative, India and global context. For scholars of Sikh nationalism, this remains the primary political science text which has set the standard that remains hard to surpass.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"31 1","pages":"186 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76900776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2084947
S. Bhat
ABSTRACT This article is an examination of diaspora, thana and cultural tourism; selected archival material from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University; and an analysis of the role of tourists and memorials in preserving memories. The study of Komagata Maru, tourism, the Indian indentured labor system, the similarities of problems among the South Asian Indians in British Columbia in Canada, allows the understanding and interpretation of the broad range of social and historical concerns. Methodologically, this article hinges on the analysis of the archival material via the theoretical frames of tourism, diaspora, and colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2084953
I. Talbot
{"title":"Sikh nationalism: From a dominant minority to an ethno-religious diaspora","authors":"I. Talbot","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2084953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2084953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"57 1","pages":"415 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87801730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2084946
Nadia Singh
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of the Sikh community in India in creating new models of collective action during the Covid-19 crisis. As India continued to be ravaged with the devastating impact of the pandemic, Sikh communities came to the forefront to help the most vulnerable groups in Indian society. The author analyses the rationale of religiously motivated community service and highlights how Sikhs employed the concept of seva (selfless service), activism (speaking truth to power) and humanitarianism as central and equal pillars of Sikh philosophy to create new forms of collectivism and ethical practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.
{"title":"Sikhism and Covid-19: Ethics of community service and activism","authors":"Nadia Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2084946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2084946","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of the Sikh community in India in creating new models of collective action during the Covid-19 crisis. As India continued to be ravaged with the devastating impact of the pandemic, Sikh communities came to the forefront to help the most vulnerable groups in Indian society. The author analyses the rationale of religiously motivated community service and highlights how Sikhs employed the concept of seva (selfless service), activism (speaking truth to power) and humanitarianism as central and equal pillars of Sikh philosophy to create new forms of collectivism and ethical practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82688666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2056788
J. Ahmed, A. Alam, Shakirullah, Ikram Shah, T. Rani
ABSTRACT This paper aimed at analyzing the social inclusion of the Sikh community living in Pakistan with emphasis on social, economic dimensions. The mixed-method research approach was employed and data was collected from 94 respondents through questionnaires, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews, and analyzed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The results revealed that both communities extend moral and financial support at times of need and participate in each other's communal events. The Sikh community showed dissatisfaction with their economic conditions and considered education and employment as the most important factors for enhancing the inclusion of Sikhs in society.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2087414
H. Grewal
ABSTRACT The connection between the recolonization of India’s economy through neoliberal reforms and the re-emergence of rhetoric around Khalistan during the farmers’ protest in Delhi are examined in this article. Despite the use of humanistic principles based on the Sikh tradition during the protest to draw attention to issues around food and land insecurity, lack of education, and poverty the Indian state creates phantasmagoria around the issue of Khalistan to enact economic liberalization while, counterintuitively, destabilizing its democratic institutions. I argue that the Delhi Morcha requires the dynamics of religion, politics, and violence in democracies needs to be rethought.
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