On Malerkotla with Professor Anna Bigelow
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English - May 28, 2021 10:00 - 55 minutes - 127 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHistory Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the 24th episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.
In this episode we are joined by Anna Bigelow, who is a professor of religious studies at Stanford University where she specialises in Islamic studies in South Asia, in particular Sufi Shrines in India and Turkey. She is also the author of “Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India” which explores the significance of the small town of Malerkotla.
Malerkotla is significant in Sikh and Punjabi history for a number of reasons which we explore today in our conversation, some of the most known being the relationship to Guru Gobind Singh Ji, Banda Singh Bahadur and its role during partition in 1947. We discuss why it is so significant, why it is so peaceful and what does it mean for religious harmony.