The materiality of the past
Subtitle: history and representation in the Sikh tradition
By: Anne Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780199916276; 9780199916290
Subjects: Historiography; Sikhism; Sikhs
Description: Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social construction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the forms of Sikh memory; title: Sikh materialities; title: Representation of a community : literary sources from the eighteenth century; title: Into the nineteenth century : history and sovereignty; title: A history of possession; title: Colonial governance and Gurdwara reform; title: Territory and the definition of being Sikh; title: Conclusion : community, territory, and the afterlife of the object.