Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity - Art, Music and Philology

Cultivating Sikh Identity and Culture explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the 'cultivation of culture'. Investigating diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, this book is of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.

List of contents

1. The Gurus' Hymns at the Sikh Courts 2. Sikh Devotional Music, Empire and Globalisation 3. Max Arthur Macauliffe and the Sikhs 4. Visual Representations in Macauliffe's The Sikh Religion 5. Aryanism, Martial Race Theory and Sikh Identity 6. Emily's Eden: Contemporary Sikh Drawings

About the author

Bob van der Linden studies modern South Asian cultural history in a global context. His previous publications include Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyahs (2008), Music and Empire in Britain and India: Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication (2013), Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music (2018) and Romantic Nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas (2024).

Summary

Cultivating Sikh Identity and Culture explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the ‘cultivation of culture’. Investigating diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, this book is of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Van Der Linden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032464268
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246426-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Critical Sikh Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, RELIGION / Sikhism, History of Religion, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Sikhism, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, religion;South Asia;identities;art history;Sikhism