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Journal Article
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2014
Overview
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) This spirited study by a young scholar of a central topic in early Sikh history makes stimulating use of a carefully creative reading of a notable range of both primary and secondary sources. In questioning the ways in which the modern historiography has long continued to be unconsciously moulded in its approach to the crude categories of 'peace' and 'militancy' by the assumptions and values of the colonial period, Syan's approach is thus very much in line with the revisionism of other contemporary scholars who seek to get behind later biases so as to provide fresh understandings of the earlier history by drawing upon the authentically Indic value systems that inform the primary texts. The succeeding chapter then deals at fitting length with the innovative writings of Guru Gobind Singh in which a new 'public philosophy' for the Sikhs in Mughal India is elaborated with reference to a creative reading of Indic mythology with a poetic virtuosity to which the later Mina leaders were unable to formulate a significant response.
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Cambridge University Press
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