The Other Sikhs with Professor Himadri Banerjee
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English - November 27, 2020 22:59 - 43 minutes - 98.6 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 Ninth episode in our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.
In this episode we are joined by Professor Himadri Banerjee who has spent the last 40 years researching the Sikhs outside of Panjab, namely those found in the North Eastern territories of India such as Bengal, Assam and Orissa. We discuss his longstanding research area on this topic and more.
He wrote a book about it which is called “The Other Sikhs” where he explores the religious identity and formation of Sikhs in the North East in comparison to the Sikhs of Punjab.
It was a really fascinating conversation because there were many dimensions to it where we were able to discuss the question of caste identity, in particular on the Dalit Sikhs of the North East and also how the Sikhs in the East responded to the Singh Sabha movement and were subsequently labelled as fake Sikhs for choosing to keep their Sanatan traditions.