How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production?
This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical …

This book is the result of my double background as a historian of modern South Asia,
especially of colonial Punjab, and a practiced musician with an ever-growing fascination for …

Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan 2 firm religious binaries. Just as our neighbour
caused us confusion, the examples of national border crossings were equally puzzling. A …

This paper discusses the performance of Gurbānī kīrtan rendered by female singers, an
activity that is an integral part of the Sikh spiritual practice, yet at a professional level has …

Nagar kirtans are street assemblies with Sikh spiritual music, political marches, and free
food distribution. They are especially large in April during the Punjabi harvest festival of …

Despite cohabiting overlapping social spheres, north India's music traditions are too often
studied in isolation from one another, negating their inherent interrelatedness. Adopting a …

This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical study of transnational Sikhism through the
lens of Gurbani kirtan, the living Sikh tradition and central religious practice of musically …

Through a comparative analysis of sound and pilgrimage in Bhakti, Sufi and Sikh cultures,
this paper examines their musical repertoires and divergent views from the standpoint of …

This paper explores semiotics at street shrines that foreground “popular” everyday faith and
commemorative practices, like urs at Amritsar. These shrines are a blend of pre-partition and …

This article revisits a series of articles published in the early 1980s on Punjab politics in the
pre-partition decade that grew out of my thesis 'The Growth of the Muslim League in the …