tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305245252024-03-07T20:08:55.648-08:00Sikh StudiesPrabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-23019159792143714172007-01-15T14:35:00.001-08:002007-01-15T14:40:44.803-08:00 Lectures by Prabhsharanbir Singh and Jasvir Singh Sheeri Prabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-1167518233323288472006-12-30T14:35:00.000-08:002007-01-14T22:01:11.913-08:00Introduction to Sikhi A Special Studies Course at University of California, BerkeleySpring 2007 Lecture 1 "Sikh Studies: A Hermeneutics in Process" Reading: - Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, “The Repetition of Past Imperialisms: Hegel, Historical Difference, and the Theorization of Indic Religions,” in History of Religions 44.4. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2005. - Arvind-Pal Prabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-1157353683615959392006-09-04T00:05:00.000-07:002006-09-10T17:30:32.706-07:00The Sikhs: Religion Culture and Politics in 20th Century A Special Studies Course at University of California, Berkeley The Twentieth century is a time of significant developments in religion, culture and politics of the Sikhs. It was the first time that Sikhs engaged themselves in the dialogue with the western world. Sikh history and religion were written in a new idiom which had no direct Prabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-1155321586104904162006-08-11T08:28:00.000-07:002006-08-11T13:29:56.186-07:00The English Patient: Reading the Re-presentationMedia representation of the Sikhs have been quite reflective of the theoretical violence that has been inflicted upon the community from various circles. The Sikhs have been re-presented according to an orientalist discourse that intially operated within the power dynamics of colonial rule and was exclusively adopted in the construction of Indian Prabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-1154628662279107492006-08-03T10:08:00.000-07:002006-08-06T15:32:50.816-07:00Where do we go from here?In her article Sikh Studies: Where do we go from here? *, Doris Jakobsh states the problems that a western student, or the diaspora Sikhs would face in the area of Sikh studies. She locates the problems in the "religio-cultural meta-narrative that is the Sikh tradition." This raises a few questions as how and when the Sikh tradition(s) worked as a meta-narrative? What do Prabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30524525.post-1151766655928805862006-07-01T08:10:00.000-07:002006-08-06T15:31:51.860-07:00Some basic issues: A wonderful discusssion between Bal and Prabhsharanbir SinghPrabhsharandeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302990805085542460noreply@blogger.com3