Sikh Nationalism

Gurharpal Singh is Emeritus Professor of Sikh and Punjab Studies at SOAS, University of London. His previous publications include The Partition of India (2009), Sikhs in Britain: The Making of a Community (2006), and Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case Study of Punjab (2000). Giorgio Shani is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies at International Christian University (ICU) in Japan. He is the author of Religion, Identity and Human Security (2015) and Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (2010).

• Introduction; 1. Understanding Sikh nationalism; 2. Sikhism and the Sikhs up to the 1890s; 3. The emergence of modern Sikh nationalism, 1880s to 1930s; 4. The Partition of India and the Sikhs; 5. An uneasy accommodation: the Indian union and the Sikhs, 1947-84; 6. After operation blue star: militancy, anti-terrorism, and the khalistan movement, 1984-97; 7. Sikh nationalism in the age of globalisation and hindutva, 1997 to the present; 8. The diaspora; Conclusion.

'This is a magisterial work that will be a reference point for many years. The authors show that Sikhs are so much more than a faith community. Using a wide array of social and political theory, they have carefully fashioned a comprehensive understanding of Sikhs as an ethnicity, a nation and a minority with a distinctive diaspora.' Robin Cohen, University of Oxford