Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2033535
Kumool Abbi
ABSTRACT This paper attempts to look at the ongoing farmers protest movement in North India and focuses on their cultural dimension, particularly so on the creative response generated. This paper is divided into three parts: (1) the genesis of the movement (2) the cultural and creative response to the protest movement and (3) a focus on the newly emerging popular protest music as a symbol of dissent and hope. Through the prism of the protest music changing dimensions and evolution of the farmers participation in the protest movement is chronicled.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2022.2032808
S. Grewal
{"title":"Memories and postmemories of the Partition of India","authors":"S. Grewal","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2032808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2032808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"14 1","pages":"184 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81700491","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 : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.2020975
Amandeep Singh, Gurpreet Singh
ABSTRACT This paper identifies and interprets the political and economic undercurrents of three farm laws passed by Indian Parliament in September 2020, triggering a year-long protest by farmers that eventually led to their repealing in November 2021. While the government argued that the farm laws were designed to foster private sector investment in agriculture, the protestors, opined that the laws were designed to pullback from the Minimum Support Price (MSP) (provided particularly on wheat and paddy). Through a close reading of Punjab's agricultural economy, we delve into understanding the economic and political undercurrents of [un]settling rubble of farm laws and protests.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.2012392
Kulbir Kaur
ABSTRACT The paper, 1 with the use of the notion of ‘purity and pollution,' analyses the status of the Dalits within the Sikh social order. ‘Dalit Sikhs' remained in the background but the act of purification, ‘Khande-ki-pahul’, was cited as the medium to abolish all differentiation and further, to remove caste distinctions, Khalsa Biradari was formed in 1907. But did this elevated status of the Dalit Sikhs as Khalsa or Abhed Sikhs improve their social standing? Could they leave their past behind and merge seamlessly into the fold of Sikhism?
{"title":"Formation of the Khalsa Biradari and Abhed Sikhs: A step towards equality. Or was it?","authors":"Kulbir Kaur","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2021.2012392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2021.2012392","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper, 1 with the use of the notion of ‘purity and pollution,' analyses the status of the Dalits within the Sikh social order. ‘Dalit Sikhs' remained in the background but the act of purification, ‘Khande-ki-pahul’, was cited as the medium to abolish all differentiation and further, to remove caste distinctions, Khalsa Biradari was formed in 1907. But did this elevated status of the Dalit Sikhs as Khalsa or Abhed Sikhs improve their social standing? Could they leave their past behind and merge seamlessly into the fold of Sikhism?","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"67 1","pages":"488 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83850084","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 : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.1988215
Bob van der Linden
ABSTRACT During the corona-lockdown, the Dutch Emily de Klerk sat down to digest her Sikh sketches and photographs. Among the results are the 10 drawings included in this essay. While they overall reflect her fascination with Punjab and the Sikhs, they specifically also channelized a feeling of empathy with the farmers protest in New Delhi to which Sikhs play a fundamental role. In the essay, Bob van der Linden embeds Emily's drawings in the light of earlier (colonial) paintings and drawings made of Sikhs by Western artists. Afterwards, an interview provides further context to Emily's work.
在冠状病毒封锁期间，荷兰人艾米莉·德克勒克(Emily de Klerk)坐下来消化她的锡克教素描和照片。结果中包括了本文所包含的10张图纸。虽然它们总体上反映了她对旁遮普和锡克教徒的迷恋，但它们也特别表达了她对新德里农民抗议活动的同情，锡克教徒在这场抗议活动中发挥了重要作用。在这篇文章中，鲍勃·范德林登将艾米丽的绘画与早期(殖民时期)西方艺术家的锡克教绘画结合起来。之后，一个采访为Emily的工作提供了进一步的背景。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.2010962
Monika Gupta
ABSTRACT This article explores multiple ways in which gender is interpreted and expressed within the field of diaspora. It highlights the dearth of writings on Sikh women within the diaspora and their role being limited to preserving the culture and identity. It examines Sikh women's lives through two key variables- identity and empowerment. These variables are analysed through different perspectives that play a crucial role in the lives of diasporic women with an intention to provide an overview of the changes in the lives of Sikh women through different generations and calls for challenging the existing positioning of women within it.
{"title":"Sikh women diaspora in the United Kingdom: redefining identity and empowerment","authors":"Monika Gupta","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2021.2010962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2021.2010962","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores multiple ways in which gender is interpreted and expressed within the field of diaspora. It highlights the dearth of writings on Sikh women within the diaspora and their role being limited to preserving the culture and identity. It examines Sikh women's lives through two key variables- identity and empowerment. These variables are analysed through different perspectives that play a crucial role in the lives of diasporic women with an intention to provide an overview of the changes in the lives of Sikh women through different generations and calls for challenging the existing positioning of women within it.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"4 1","pages":"468 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84505567","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 : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.1982163
M. K. A. Singh, Naginder Kaur
ABSTRACT Fishman's (1972) domain analysis was used to investigate the sustainability of Punjabi language among Malaysian Sikh youth in their home domain. Data were collected through survey questionnaire. The main finding indicates a shift in language choice and use according to the type of relationship with interlocutors. Punjabi is the most preferred language for communication with grandparents and parents while English is the choice with siblings. The outcome presents a threat of dominant local languages, namely Malay and English for Punjabi among Sikh youth. This calls for necessary actions to sustain the use of Punjabi in the home and religious domains.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.1981067
R. S. Malhi
ABSTRACT This article investigates the anti-British political activities of Malayan Sikhs through their participation in the Ghadar movement (1913–18). Although the Malayan Sikhs were generally renowned as loyal British subjects, a considerable number of them became ardent revolutionaries primarily due to Ghadar propaganda that fuelled their desire for India’s independence. The article explores the origins of the Ghadar movement in Malaya and then discusses the movement’s primary goals, main activists, strategies, and struggle against the British in India, as well as the measures taken by the British in Malaya to suppress it. The failure of the Ghadar movement and its legacy is subsequently examined.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2021.1984058
Pashaura Singh
ABSTRACT This article explores the state of fearlessness and human justice through an examination of five celebrated couplets from Guru Tegh Bahadur’s bāṇī (‘inspired utterances’) by placing them in their immediate historical context, followed by an understanding of their wider significance from a global perspective. The main arguments of this essay revolve around the critical situation in Mughal India leading to the ninth Guru’s execution at Chandni Chowk in Delhi on 11 November 1675, by the orders of Emperor Aurangzeb. Rectifying skewed perspectives offered by modern historians in which the death of the ninth Guru is simply an accident of history and therefore of no consequence to wider humanity, this essay offers a critical review of historical readings of events that forced Guru Tegh Bahadur to intervene in the flow of history on behalf of downtrodden and minority voices. To bring the people out of their vulnerability he inspired them with a bold message of resistance against the tyrannical regime by cultivating the spirit of fearlessness and carefree optimism.
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