Anshu Malhotra is a Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor and Chair of Sikh and Punjab Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.Anne Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and holds the Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature, and Sikh Studies.

• 1 Introduction: Bhai Vir Singh as author, scholar, and reformist Anshu Malhotra and Anne Murphy2 Innovation in Punjabi Literature: Considerations on the Advent of Literary Modernity Farina Mir3 Print publics, literary experiments, and community formation in the work of Bhai Vir Singh Arti Minocha4 The Conversion Loop: Gender, Identity, and Storytelling in Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundarī Anshu Malhotra5 Revisiting Khalsa Samachar (1899-1900): Women Issues and Concerns Parneet Kaur Dhillon and Jaspal Kaur Dhanju6 Didacticism and Punjabi Theatre: Bhai Vir Singh's experimental Raja Lakhdata Singh Gunjeet Aurora7 Beyond the Past: Poetry as a Notation the Present Anne Murphy8 Intertextuality and Reception History: Connecting Bhai Vir Singh’s Srī Kalgīdhar Camatkār to gurbilās literature Julie Vig9 Vir Singh’s Publication of the Gurpratāp Sūraj Granth Jvala Singh10 Bhai Vir Singh’s Puratan Janamsakhi: Sikh Book Culture and the Historical Turn Harjeet Singh Grewal11 Transcendence and the Modern Sikh Subject: Analyzing Bhai Vir Singh’s Theology Arvind-Pal S. Mandair12 The manifold lives of Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundri Doris R. Jakobsh