| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Contributors; Art Foreword; Literature Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I; CHAPTER 1 From Gurus to Kings; CHAPTER 2 An Illustrated Life; CHAPTER 3 The Sikh Treasury; CHAPTER 4 Golden Temple, Marble Forum; PART II Literature; CHAPTER 5 The Unstruck Melody; CHAPTER 6 The Western Gateway to Sikhism; CHAPTER 7 Poetry Urges Poetry; CHAPTER 8 Critical Ecstasy; CHAPTER 9 Old Culture, New Knowledge; CHAPTER 10 A Mirror to Our Faces; APPENDIX I The Ten Sikh Gurus |
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APPENDIX II Contributors to the Guru Granth SahibAPPENDIX III Music and Structure of the Guru Granth Sahib; APPENDIX IV Collections of Sikh Art; Glossary; Further reading; The Sikh Foundation; Index |
| Summary |
Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas and religions and arts of the East and West. Essays by art curators, historians and collectors and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings. Sikh modernism and mysticism is explored in essays on the holy Guru Granth Sahib; the translations and writings of the British Raj convert, M.A. Macauliffe; the fathers of modern Punjabi literature, Bhai Vir Singh and Puran Singh; and the 2 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sikh art.
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Hindu art -- India -- Punjab
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Sikh literature.
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Hindu art
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Sikh art
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Sikh literature
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India -- Punjab
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203061374 |
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0203061373 |
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