This volume is a reprint of the Transition Series of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla which was earlier published in 1976. It aims at forming ‘an intelligent understanding of the Historical and sociological forces that formed the nature and character of Sikhism and Sikh society’. It also seeks to understand the social, economic and political forces that are at work amongst them today and are shaping and forming them in the context of contemporary India and the world. It contains twenty papers, divided into three sections: ‘Sikhism and Sikh Society’, ‘Guru Gobind Singh’, and ‘Sikhism and Indian Society’,
This volume is a reprint of the Transition Series of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla which was earlier published in 1976. It aims at forming ‘an intelligent understanding of the Historical and sociological forces that formed the nature and character of Sikhism and Sikh society’. It also seeks to understand the social, economic and political forces that are at work amongst them today and are shaping and forming them in the context of contemporary India and the world. It contains twenty papers, divided into three sections: ‘Sikhism and Sikh Society’, ‘Guru Gobind Singh’, and ‘Sikhism and Indian Society’,