Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity

(Author: Doris Jakobsh)

Critical Analysis

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Dedication

To my mother Bhagwan Kaur, sister Surjeet Kaur, wife Nakshatar Kaur, daughters Amrita Kaur and Nimrta Kaur, and granddaughters Asha Kaur, Lillia Kaur, Akashi Kaur and Kiran Kaur.

Acknowledgement

I am deeply indebted to Colonel G.B. Singh of the U.S. Army and the author of Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity for suggestions for the format and layout of this long complicated manuscript making it comprehensible to the readers. His in-depth knowledge of some of the issues discussed in the manuscript made my task easy. His invaluable scholarly discussions, insightful and thought provoking suggestions, and critical review of the manuscript are deeply appreciated. I am also grateful to Mike McEvers for editing this paper. Dr. Jasbir Singh Mann deserves my special thanks for sharing the literature from his library and drawing my attention to the subject matter of this paper dealing with Professor Doris Jakobsh and her thesis.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1 University of British Columbia (UBC)

Chapter 2 Women in Sikh History

Chapter 3 Who is Interpreting Aad Guru Granth Sahib?

Chapter 4 False Statements about Sikh Gurus

Chapter 5 Maligning Jats

Chapter 6 Spurious Anti-Sikh Writings

Chapter 7 Questioning the Martyrdom of Guru Arjan &

the Bravery of Sikhs

Chapter 8 Guru Gobind Singh’s Tenets

Chapter 9 Echo of British Anti-Sikh Propaganda

Chapter 10 British Victorian Sexual Ethos versus Sikh

Sexual Ethos

Chapter 11 Manipulation of Population Census to Malign

Sikhs

Chapter 12 British and the Singh Sabha Reform Movement:

Did British Try to Hinduize Sikhs?

Chapter 13 The Mutiny of 1857

Chapter 14 Absurd, Misleading and Deceptive Statements

Chapter 15 What the British Did to the Sikhs?

Conclusion

Appendix A W. H. McLeod

Appendix B Harjot Oberoi

Appendix C The Sant Tradition