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Martyrdom in the Sikh tradition : playing the "game of love"

Title: Martyrdom in the Sikh tradition : playing the "game of love" / Louis E. Fenech.
Author: Fenech, Louis E.
Publication: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2000.

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xix, 306 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The notion of martyrdom and the role of martyrs in religious and political history constitutes a major component in discourse among Sikhs throughout the world. Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition examines how and why Sikhs began to represent their history as a history of persecutions and martyrdoms and began to see themselves as a 'community through whose veins flows the blood of martyrdom'. Fenech seeks the reasons why the themes of sacrifice and martyrdom came to dominate Sikh imaginations in the early twentieth century and how these understandings continue to play such a vital role in the Sikh community today. He does this through an analysis of the Sikh scriptures, eighteenth and nineteenth century Sikh literature, as well as the voluminous tracts and newspapers produced under the auspices of the late nineteenth-century 'reform' movement, the Singh Sabha."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Orthography -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 2 The Tradition and its Transmission (starting p. 33) -- 3 Theology and Personnel (starting p. 63) -- 4 Martyrdom in the Early Sikh Tradition (starting p. 116) -- 5 The Shahid's Roles in a Mystical Universe (starting p. 145) -- 6 The Game of Love: The Singh Sabha and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom (starting p. 178) -- 7 Playing the Game: The Movement for Gurdwara Reform (starting p. 226) -- 8 Post-1925: Conclusions (starting p. 288) -- Index (starting p. 301)

ISBN

0195649478
9780195649475

LCCN

00411995

OCLC

ocm46945632
46945632
SCSB-1214789

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Princeton University Library