Several specialized books are available on different aspects of the Sikh faith, but there is not much literature available which helps, both researchers as well as laymen, get from a single volume a complete overview of Sikh religion and history. The present book is a humble attempt to fulfill this need.
The book attempts to discuss briefly but comprehensively all the aspects of Sikh religion, history and literature. Beginning with a small section on the distinct salient features of Sikh faith, it takes up, in different sections, Sikh history (from the Guru-period till the present times), some Sampradaya and renaissance movements in the Sikh tradition, the Sikh canon, meta- physical thought, social thought, polity and the Sikh response to some of the important issues facing humankind today.
Written in terse and compact language, the book should be of much interest and value to the students and teachers of Sikh religion as well as to lay readers.
I was able to prepare the draft some years back but somehow could not find time to give it the final shape because of my pre-occupation with various other projects. At last when I thought it was final, I wanted to share it with some of my friends abroad, e.g. the famous pluralist theologian Dr Alan Race and others to find out especially if its idiom would be acceptable to the youth abroad. I attribute all merits of the book to the friends who helped me with various suggestions and other in-puts, but I own as my own any lapses and shortcomings a reader might come across in the book. We have put diacritical signs on some of the more important non-English words so that a reader not familiar with Punjabi language can pronounce it correctly. Finally, I was able to hand over the typescript to the publishers only early this year, and I am grateful to them for giving it this beautiful shape.
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Hindu (880)
Agriculture (85)
Ancient (1006)
Archaeology (570)
Architecture (527)
Art & Culture (848)
Biography (587)
Buddhist (541)
Cookery (160)
Emperor & Queen (491)
Islam (234)
Jainism (271)
Literary (871)
Mahatma Gandhi (378)
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