ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
0
vikramjain@sanctumbooks.com
×
x
x
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
x
ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
Home:
Subjects:
Sikhism
History, Culture & Politics
Literature & Poetry
Religion & Philosophy
x
Front Cover
Back Cover
From Ravidas and Nanak to Waris Shah: Texts, Languages, and Religious Imaginaries in Early Modern Punjab
Author:
Anne Murphy
Series:
Sanctum Studies in Indian Intellectual, Cultural, and Historical Traditions
Binding:
Paperback
FORTHCOMING
About the Book
From Ravidas and Nanak to Waris Shah
explores the textual, linguistic, and religious worlds of early modern Punjab through figures and traditions that shaped the region’s cultural imagination. Moving from the devotional voices of Ravidas and Guru Nanak to Waris Shah’s eighteenth-century
Hīr
, Anne Murphy examines how religious communities and literary traditions took form in relation to one another across a multilingual and culturally connected landscape.Rather than reading Sikh, bhakti, and Sufi traditions through boundaries that became more firmly established in later periods, the book attends to the languages, texts, manuscripts, and forms of circulation through which religious difference was articulated and negotiated. It reveals early modern Punjab as a region in which locality and wider literary and religious networks continually intersected, and in which texts could participate simultaneously in distinctive traditions and shared fields of cultural exchange. Murphy’s work on
Hīr
, in particular, emphasises precisely these regional, linguistic, and cross-regional affiliations. Bringing literary history into conversation with the history of religion,
From Ravidas and Nanak to Waris Shah
offers a new account of how texts and languages helped shape religious imaginaries in Punjab. In doing so, it illuminates a formative period in which religious identities became increasingly distinctive while remaining embedded in a wider world of encounter, circulation, and intellectual exchange.
About the Author
Anne Murphy
Anne Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia and Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies. A cultural and intellectual historian and historian of religion, her work focuses on Punjab in India and Pakistan, with particular interests in Punjabi language and textual cultures, the formation of religious communities in the early modern and modern periods, Sikh history, historiography, memory, material culture, and the history of ideas.
She is the author of
The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition
and the forthcoming
Decolonization and the Imagination of the Political: A History of Ideas, in Punjabi
, and translator of Zubair Ahmad’s
Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore
. Her current research examines the early modern history of Punjabi language and manuscript culture, including a full translation of Waris Shah’s eighteenth-century
Hīr
based on its early manuscripts.
Customer Reviews
Books of related interest
Lived Religion, Representation, and Sikh Identity
Negotiating Historical Change Hindu Style
Songs of Home & Loss: Reconstructions of a Tam...
Panini's Grammatical Architecture: Economy, Ru...
Sacred Sovereignty: Kingship, Heritage, and Politi...
Renunciation and the Making of Social Worlds
The Purāṇic Condition: Textual Identity, Transform...
Media, Knowledge, and Contemporary India
The Yoga of Nonseparation: Addressing Yoga’s Deepe...
Making and Knowing in South Asian Art
Water, Architecture, and Cultural Memory in India
Seven Saktis: An Ancient Force is Re-Awakening in ...
Moral Perception and Human Flourishing: A Buddhist...
Hinduism Against Caste
Tracing the Contours of the Unseen: Sufi Poetry, M...
Introducing Hindu Worldviews: Tradition, Transitio...
Dialogic Elements of Buddhist Mythology
Rāma Jāmadagnya as Symptom and Symbol of Brahmin I...
Sanskrit Grammar and Grammatical Thought: Collecte...
Urbanism and Religious Landscape in Medieval South...
Rigvedic Syntax, Discourse Structure, and Stylisti...
The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Th...
The Book of Monasteries
City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popu...
Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in So...
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World Histor...
Myth and History in Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid...
The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names...
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytell...
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Univers...
Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and C...
Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third Worl...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Kha...
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Lit...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Corresp...
Nationhood and Identity in Indian Adaptations of S...
Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of ...
Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in...
Locating Hybridity: Creole, Identities and Body Po...
The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical...
Indian Poetics (Kavya Śastra) and Narratology Towa...
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature...
The Rules of Logic
Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and ...
The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great E...
Towards a Relevant Christology in India Today: An ...
The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cros...
The Global Vision: Karl Jaspers
Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction: A Cl...
Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored ...
Remembering Empire: Power, Memory, & Place in ...
Confronting Fear in Faith: A Psycho-Pastoral Appro...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature...
Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire: The Writin...
Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in In...
The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
The Lion's Roar: Actualizing Buddhism in Daily...
The Book of Travels
An Environmental History of Postcolonial North Ind...
Religion, Society and Economics: Eastern and Weste...
Meditation, Vol. I: History And Present Time
Federalism and Second Chambers: Regional Represent...
Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative: Interdiscip...
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglement...
Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Determinants, Consequences and Perspectives of Lan...
Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encou...
Studies in Logic: A Dialogue between the East and ...
The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative I...
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern Sout...
Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities: Essays...
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star: A New Religious...
Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the...
Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, a...
Research as Praxis: Democratizing Education Episte...
Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and...
Release from Life – Release in Life: Indian Perspe...
Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deter...
Earthquake Disaster Management: Focussing on the E...
Ethnicity and Tribal Theology: Problems and Prospe...
The Failure of Islamic Modernism?: Syed Ameer Ali&...
Between Life and Death: Governing Populations in t...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri La...
The Concept of Man in the Advaita Vedanta of Sanka...
The Divine Body in History: A comparative study of...
Medieval Worlds: Origins, Nature, Debates, and Exc...
Martin Luther on Social and Political Issues: - Hi...
Literarische Selbstverortung als historische Handl...
Requiem for a Lightning Bolt
J.S. Mill’s Encounter with India
India in the World since 1947: National and Transn...
L’idee separatiste dans la presse anglo-musulmane ...
The Book of Charlatans
"The Ethos of Britain": Delderfieldʼs Sw...
The Other Jesus: Christology in Asian Perspective
Comparative Constitutional Traditions
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
Cartografia religiosa- Religiose Kartographie- Car...
Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Sinc...
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt an...
Education, Labour & Science: Perspectives for ...
Women and Contemporary World Literature: Power, Fr...
In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems
Narayan: A Study in Transcendence (Studies of Worl...
Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion a...
Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India: Ritual...
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Images of India in British Fiction: Anglo-India vs...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient...
The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives
South Asian Technospaces
The Culture Shocks of Rudyard Kipling (American Un...
Youth Violence and Pastoral Care: Pastoral Respons...
After Belsen: Christian Encounters with Holocaust ...
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Global South Rising?: BRICS and the Reconfiguratio...
The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Eco...
The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and Hi...
Education and Training in a Globalized World Socie...
Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in...
A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh ...
Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labo...
Warriors after War: Indian and Pakistani Retired M...
Re/Membering Place
Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas
Die Rani von Jhansi – Rebellin wider Willen: Biogr...
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at th...
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passp...
R.K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India
Indian Agents: Rulers of the Reserves
Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journali...
Contemporary Global Governance: Multipolarity vs N...
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movemen...
Research as Praxis: Democratizing Education Episte...
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration
The Doctors’ Dinner Party
The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and...
Becoming Poets: The Asian English experience
The Role of the Petrine Ministry in the Ecumenical...
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, a...
Fictions of 1947: Representations of Indian Decolo...
Machiavelli on War
Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facil...
Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferati...
Fictionalising Trauma: The Aesthetics of Marguerit...
D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Medita...
The Center of the World: A Global History of the P...
Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to ...
Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ir...
The Japanese Image of India: From the Heavenly Wor...
A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poet...
Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial Indi...
Yoga and Phenomenology on Consciousness
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia: ...
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and...
A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poet...
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bern...
Democracy’s Second Act: Why Politics Needs the Pub...
Ireland: Looking East
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals...
Translation and the Accommodation of Diversity: In...
A Mandala of Words: Cultural Realities in the Poem...
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Civilisation, Education and School in Ancient and ...
Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial...
A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Resh...
The Discovery of Insulin: Special Centenary Editio...
The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1400-1599
Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South Indi...
US Hegemony Global Ambitions and Decline- Emergenc...
Self-Transcendence and Prosociality
Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liber...
The Spirit Lives: A Personal Journey from Loss to ...
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirat...
South Asian Technospaces - Hardcover
Defining the Indefinable: Delimiting Hindi
Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient In...
The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of th...
Economic Dimensions of Buddhism in Early India: Fr...
The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1600-1799
The Socialist Opposition in Nehruvian India 1947–1...
Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Character...
Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journali...
Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and L...
Kings and Dervishes: Sufi World Renunciation and t...
Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
Motilal Tejawat: Life and Work
Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms: Essays on Ge...
The Rise of a Multipolar World: Papers presented a...
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the I...
Sinister Yogis
On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writ...
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels ...
Turning Wind into Power Effects of Stakeholder Net...
Globalisation and the Changing Face of Port Infras...
Across the Color Line: Indians, Blacks, and Landsc...
Ethnic Identity and Christianity: A Socio-Historic...
Origin and Growth of Satī in Early Medieval India:...
Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethic...
Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile: The Lord’s Hint of Laughter ...
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
Ancient India: Insights into Social & Economic...
The Prophetic Novel
Haram in the Harem: Domestic Narratives in India a...
The Guardian of the Hills: Devata Culture and Livi...
Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy
Sacred Matters, Stately Concerns: Faith and Politi...
Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Int...
The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Str...
Asians ahead after the first round?: Indo-British ...
India in Translation through Hindi Literature: A P...
The Rule of Four: Four Essays on the Principle of ...
The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the B...
Impostures
ADD REVIEW
Review Title
Review
Reviewer Name
Email