Nikky‐guninder Kaur Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikky‐guninder Kaur Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikky‐guninder Kaur |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH N G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1232-148X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guru Nanak’s sensuous metaphysics
Religion and aesthetics are demarcated as two different avenues with ‘God’ and ‘Beauty’ as their respective goals. Opposite of anesthetic, aesthetics is clearly the heightening of the senses. But religion with its focus on God dwelling in a world beyond ours mandates a negation of those very senses. Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, overturns such an antithesis. My paper focuses on Guru Nanak’s Japji, the foremost devotional hymn in the Guru Grant…
Babarvani and the call for gender justice
Guru Nanak composed four hymns on Emperor Babur's conquest of India that have collectively come down in the Guru Granth Sahib as Babarvani (Babur hymns). There are very few historical allusions in the 1430 pages of the Sikh scared text, so this description of a tragic historical event is noteworthy. But the hymns are also poetically charged with a powerful social meaning. They appear in the musical measures of Asa and Tilang. This paper delves in…
Visual Phenomenology: Seeing-in Guru Nanak at the Asian Arts Museum
In a symphony of colors and compositional elements, Janamsakhi illustrations record the life of the founder, Guru Nanak (1469-1539). This paper explores the set of 41 paintings from the nineteenth century in the permanent Kapany Collection at the Asian Arts Museum. My objective is to gain some sense of the reception of the Sikh Guru's images in a western cosmopolitan space. After all does the seeing-in not depend upon personal proclivities, cultu…
In the Language of Love: Reflections on the Milwaukee massacre
As Wade M. Page rampaged through the sacred space of the Sikhs in a Milwaukee suburb with his gun what did he see? His ears so attuned to musical rhythms, what did they hear? Sikh worship centers o
Corporeal Metaphysics: Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art
Re-Imagining the Divine in Sikhism
In this article I focus on the `Mother' image in Sikh scripture, and explore her as the source of creation and wisdom. My re-imagining of the divine in Sikhism will offer a counter-balance to the prevailing androcentric attitudes and interpretations of malestream scholarship, and I also hope it will be a step towards counteracting the sexism festering within Sikh homes and the larger society
The Kanjak Ritual in the Land of Disappearing Kanjaks
Translating Sikh scripture into English
Sacred Fabric and Sacred Stitches: The Underwear of the Khalsa
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life: Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal
The New Cambridge History of India: The Sikhs of the Punjab . J. S. Grewal
The Myth of the Founder: The Janamsākhīs and Sikh Tradition
Babarvani and the call for gender justice
Guru Nanak composed four hymns on Emperor Babur's conquest of India that have collectively come down in the Guru Granth Sahib as Babarvani (Babur hymns). There are very few historical allusions in the 1430 pages of the Sikh scared text, so this description of a tragic historical event is noteworthy. But the hymns are also poetically charged with a powerful social meaning. They appear in the musical measures of Asa and Tilang. This paper delves in…
The Myth of the Founder: The Janamsākhīs and Sikh Tradition
Guru Nanak’s sensuous metaphysics
Religion and aesthetics are demarcated as two different avenues with ‘God’ and ‘Beauty’ as their respective goals. Opposite of anesthetic, aesthetics is clearly the heightening of the senses. But religion with its focus on God dwelling in a world beyond ours mandates a negation of those very senses. Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, overturns such an antithesis. My paper focuses on Guru Nanak’s Japji, the foremost devotional hymn in the Guru Grant…
Corporeal Metaphysics: Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art
Translating Sikh scripture into English
Sacred Fabric and Sacred Stitches: The Underwear of the Khalsa
The Myth of the Founder: The Janamsākhīs and Sikh Tradition
The New Cambridge History of India: The Sikhs of the Punjab . J. S. Grewal
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life: Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal
Sacred Fabric and Sacred Stitches: The Underwear of the Khalsa
Translating Sikh scripture into English
Re-Imagining the Divine in Sikhism
In this article I focus on the `Mother' image in Sikh scripture, and explore her as the source of creation and wisdom. My re-imagining of the divine in Sikhism will offer a counter-balance to the prevailing androcentric attitudes and interpretations of malestream scholarship, and I also hope it will be a step towards counteracting the sexism festering within Sikh homes and the larger society
The Kanjak Ritual in the Land of Disappearing Kanjaks
In the Language of Love: Reflections on the Milwaukee massacre
As Wade M. Page rampaged through the sacred space of the Sikhs in a Milwaukee suburb with his gun what did he see? His ears so attuned to musical rhythms, what did they hear? Sikh worship centers o
Corporeal Metaphysics: Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art
Visual Phenomenology: Seeing-in Guru Nanak at the Asian Arts Museum
In a symphony of colors and compositional elements, Janamsakhi illustrations record the life of the founder, Guru Nanak (1469-1539). This paper explores the set of 41 paintings from the nineteenth century in the permanent Kapany Collection at the Asian Arts Museum. My objective is to gain some sense of the reception of the Sikh Guru's images in a western cosmopolitan space. After all does the seeing-in not depend upon personal proclivities, cultu…
Babarvani and the call for gender justice
Guru Nanak composed four hymns on Emperor Babur's conquest of India that have collectively come down in the Guru Granth Sahib as Babarvani (Babur hymns). There are very few historical allusions in the 1430 pages of the Sikh scared text, so this description of a tragic historical event is noteworthy. But the hymns are also poetically charged with a powerful social meaning. They appear in the musical measures of Asa and Tilang. This paper delves in…
Guru Nanak’s sensuous metaphysics
Religion and aesthetics are demarcated as two different avenues with ‘God’ and ‘Beauty’ as their respective goals. Opposite of anesthetic, aesthetics is clearly the heightening of the senses. But religion with its focus on God dwelling in a world beyond ours mandates a negation of those very senses. Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, overturns such an antithesis. My paper focuses on Guru Nanak’s Japji, the foremost devotional hymn in the Guru Grant…
Philosophy (10 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (9 works) · Art (7 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (7 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Law (4 works)