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A Study of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya Education, Religion and Gender Issues


Free Download Tripti Bassi, "A Study of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya: Education, Religion and Gender Issues"
English | ISBN: 9811632189 | 2021 | 201 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book addresses the issue of Sikh women’s education in Punjab within the larger discourse of women’s education in India. It focuses on the role of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya (SKM)―one of the most important educational institutions established in the nineteenth century as a result of the Sikh reformist movement in Punjab. It explores how various dimensions of caste, class, gender and religion generate a variety of approaches to the culture of literacy, and takes a closer look at the relevance of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya in today’s India and its contribution to the area of educational pedagogy. It focuses on gender in education, specifically discourses and practices in women’s education. In addition to providing valuable insights and critical evidence that can be used in the planning and implementation of education and gender policies, the book is sure to spark conversations in courses and professional communities interested in education, gender studies, history, sociology as well as overlooked dimensions of gender history.

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The Gift of Our Wounds A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate (2024)


Free Download Arno Michaelis, Pardeep Singh Kaleka, "The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1250107547 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 4.1 mb
The powerful story of a friendship between two men―one Sikh and one skinhead―that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate.

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Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations


Free Download Katy P. Sian, "Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations"
English | ISBN: 0739178741 | 2013 | 148 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates challenges that require complex negotiations between other ethnic minorities as well as the national majority. Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations maps in theoretically informed and empirically rich detail the trope of Sikh-Muslim antagonism as it circulates throughout the diaspora. While focusing on contemporary manifestations of Sikh-Muslim hostility, the book also draws upon historical examples of such conflict to explore the way in which the past has been mobilized to tell a story about the future of Sikhs. This book uses critical race theory to understand the performance of postcolonial subjectivity in the heart of the metropolis.

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