Research Catalog

Title

The making of Sikh scripture / Gurinder Singh Mann.

Author

Mann, Gurinder Singh.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 193 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Based on a close examination of the extant manuscripts and other early Sikh sources, Gurinder Singh Mann presents a detailed reconstruction of the making of the Adi Granth ("original book"), the primary Sikh scripture. In the process, he traces its origin, expansion, canonization, and place within the institutional development of the Sikh community. His findings on many key issues differ from the traditional Sikh position, as well as the hypotheses of other twentieth-century scholars. Mann's revised and expanded history of the text and institution of Sikh scripture will be of interest to scholars of Sikhism and comparative canon formation."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Livres sacrés
• Sacred works
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Adi-Granth > History
• Ādi granth
• Sikhism > Sacred books > History
• Heilige boeken
• Sikhs
• 18.65 middle and modern Indian language and/or literature
• Ādi-Granth > Criticism, Textual
• Ādi-Granth > History

Genre/Form

• Sacred works
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Sacred works.
• Livres sacrés.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.

Contents

Note on Transliteration -- 1 Sikhs and Their Scripture (starting p. 3) -- The Adi Granth (starting p. 4) -- The Early Sikh Community (starting p. 6) -- The Plan of the Book (starting p. 16) -- 2 Writings on Sikh Scripture: An Overview (starting p. 18) -- Eighteenth-Century Accounts (starting p. 19) -- Nineteenth-Century Accounts (starting p. 23) -- Twentieth-Century Accounts (starting p. 25) -- 3 The Beginning of the Scriptural Tradition (starting p. 32) -- The Guru Harsahai Pothi (starting p. 33) -- The Goindval Pothis (starting p. 40) -- 4 The Expansion of the Scriptural Text (starting p. 51) -- Ms 1245 (starting p. 51) -- The Kartarpur Pothi (starting p. 59) -- 5 Toward the Adi Granth (starting p. 69) -- The Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts (starting p. 69) -- The Adi Granth (starting p. 82) -- 6 The Emerging Structure of the Adi Granth (starting p. 86) -- Rag as the Organizing Principle of the Adi Granth (starting p. 87) -- Evolution of the Structure of the Adi Granth (starting p. 89) -- The Adi Granth and Other Scriptures (starting p. 99) -- 7 The Adi Granth and the Issue of the Bhagat Bani (starting p. 102) -- Date of Inclusion of the Bhagat Bani (starting p. 103) -- The Purpose of Incorporation of the Bhagat Bani (starting p. 109) -- The Selection and Evolution of the Corpus (starting p. 111) -- The Status of the Bhagat Bani (starting p. 117) -- 8 The Guru Granth Sahib (starting p. 121) -- Three Centuries of Sikh Scriptural History (starting p. 121) -- The Authority of the Adi Granth (starting p. 129) -- Future Prospects (starting p. 134) -- Notes (starting p. 137) -- Glossary of Punjabi Terms (starting p. 179) -- Bibliography (starting p. 183) -- Index (starting p. 191)

ISBN

• 0195130243
• 9780195130249

LCCN

00020857

OCLC

• ocm43323664
• 43323664
• SCSB-1217143

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library