When does history begin? : religion, narrative, and identity in the Sikh tradition / Harjot Oberoi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oberoi, Harjot, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikhism--India--History.

Sikhism.

Sikhism--Historiography.

Sikhs--India--History.

Sikhs.

Sikhs--India--Politics and government.

Sikhs--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Bangalore : Distributed by Orient Blackswan Private LTD.

Place of Publication:

Ranikhet : Permanent Black in associated with Ashoka University, [2021]

Summary:

"Indian historiographical praxis has long been problematic. Al-Biruni, the eleventh-century polymath, was puzzled by how people in the subcontinent treated the protocols of history, not seeing the Indian narratives of the past, embedded in kavya traditions, represented a radical departure from historical narratives in the Islamic, Sinic, and Greco-Roman worlds. Where others tended to search for "facts," people in South Asia looked for "affect." This alternative for comprehending and evaluating the past--through aesthetics and gradients of taste--generated a different variety of historical consciousness. Focusing on important issues in Sikh religious identity and memory, Harjot Oberoi shows what modern critical narrative achieves when it moves away from classical models of historiography. His examination of the Sikh tradition traverses significant moments in colonialism, encounters with modernity, coercion and protest in the Raj, the production of knowledge, the rise of secular nationalism, and modern notions of the self within and outside India"--Front flap of dust jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: after affect

poetry, positivism, history

1. Brotherhood of the Pure: the poetics and politics of cultural transgression

2. Empire, orientalism, and native informants: the scholarly endeavours of Sir Attar Singh Bhadour

3. Religious protest: from Gurdwara Rikabganj to Viceregal Palace

4. The Ghadar movement and its anarchist genealogy

5. The inner life of Bhagat Singh and the making of a maximal self

6. An epic without a text: imagining the Indian diaspora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9788178246444

8178246449

OCLC:

1263343455