The Eighteenth Century in Sikh History Political Resurgence, Religious and Social Life, and Cultural Articulation

by Malhotra, Karamjit K.

• ISBN13: 9780199087600
• ISBN10: 0199087601
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Karamjit K. Malhotra, Assistant Professor in the Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Scope, Sources, and Debate about Dates 1
Part I Sikh Political Resurgence and Sikh Polity
1. 'R=aj Kareg=a Kh=als=a' 19
2. The Khalsa R=aj (176599) 59
Part II Religious and Social Life
3. God, Guru, and Gurdw=ar=a 101
4. Rites and Ceremonies 142
5. Ethical Concerns of the Khalsa 170
6. The Sikh Social Order: Composition, Caste, and Gender 192
Part III Cultural Articulation
7. The Old and New Literary Forms 233
8. Painting and Architecture 256
Conclusion: Convergence on Sikh Identity 281
Appendix: The Goddess in Eighteenth-Century Sikh Literature 290
Glossary 301
Select Bibliography 313
Index 329
About the Author 342