Defining the Religious and the Political

Murphy, Anne

doi:10.1080/17448727.2013.774706

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“…Simplistically put, if Sikhs were Hindus, they were adequately represented; if Sikhism was a discrete religion in its own right, then Sikh voices deserved greater inclusion in their own right. As Anne Murphy has recognized, Sikhs rode a knife's blade trying to gain political representation through a religious frame; political activity could be construed as rebellious and dealt with forcefully, while attempts were made to accommodate religious practices (Murphy 2013;see Murphy 2015 for a discussion on how a "religious" sphere was distinguished from a "political" one during the period). The focus on Gurdwaras during the first decades of the twentieth century served to create a corporate body of Sikhs around religious centers, helping create the new category whilst also challenging it (Murphy 2015, p. 58).…”

Section: Situating Sikhs On the Cusp Of Warmentioning

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Sikh Self-Sacrifice and Religious Representation during World War I

Soboslai

2018

Religions

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This paper analyzes the ways Sikh constructions of sacrifice were created and employed to engender social change in the early twentieth century. Through an examination of letters written by Sikh soldiers serving in the British Indian Army during World War I and contemporary documents from within their global religious, legislative, and economic context, I argue that Sikhs mobilized conceptions of self-sacrifice in two distinct directions, both aiming at procuring greater political recognition and representation. Sikhs living outside the Indian subcontinent encouraged their fellows to rise up and throw off their colonial oppressors by recalling mythic moments of the past and highlighting the plight of colonial subjects of the British Raj. Receiving less discussion are Punjabi Sikhs who fought in British forces during the Great War and who spoke of their potential sacrifice as divinely sanctioned in service to a benevolent state. Both sides utilized religious symbolism in the hope that Sikhs would again enjoy a level of self-rule that had been lost with the arrival of the British Empire.

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Section: Situating Sikhs On the Cusp Of Warmentioning

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Sikh Self-Sacrifice and Religious Representation during World War I

Soboslai

2018

Religions

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Dissent and diversity in South Asian religions

Murphy¹

2015

Dissent on Core Beliefs

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‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India

Venkateswaran

2023

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article foregrounds the postcolonial museum as a new source, and site, from which to write South Asian histories of partition and its aftermath. It focuses on collecting practices in India within East Punjab, following the partition of the British-era Punjab province in 1947 between India and Pakistan. Tapping hitherto-unused archival sources, it reveals the considerable financial investment and drive to collect at this time, belying the idea of museums being ‘dead’ colonial assets, and demonstrates their centrality to how citizenship and belonging were articulated (or withheld) in independent India. Some discoveries have far-reaching implications for both historians and museum professionals. The article also shines a light upon a new range of actors—both named and nameless, professional and citizen—who have been marginal to historical enquiry thus far. Moving beyond the familiar colonial templates within which museums in the region have until now been studied, it asks critical questions of the postcolonial museum in South Asia by interrogating the relationship between collections, and the Indian nation-state and its subsidiaries.

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Defining the Religious and the Political

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Sikh Self-Sacrifice and Religious Representation during World War I

Sikh Self-Sacrifice and Religious Representation during World War I

Dissent and diversity in South Asian religions

‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India

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