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In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India,
Harjot Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism and
Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated
units of religious identity. Through a searching examination of
Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikh tradition was
not concerned with establishing distinct religious boundaries. Most
Sikhs recognized multiple identities grounded in local, regional,
religious, and secular loyalties. Consequently, religious
identities were highly blurred and several competing definitions of
what constituted a Sikh were possible.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the
Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the
multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided
by social and cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the
Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of
diversity. The ethnocentric logic of a new elite dissolved
alternative ideals under the highly codified culture of modern
Sikhism.
A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view
is replaced by a monolithic one, this important book calls into
question basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist
claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
An essential book for the field of South Asian religions, this work
is also an important contribution to cultural anthropology,
postcolonial studies, and the history of religion in general.
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