When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making Of The Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799

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Challenging the commonly accepted belief that the distinctive rituals, ceremonies, and cultural practices associated with the Khalsa were formed during the lifetime of the Tenth and last Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, Purnima Dhavan reveals how such markers of Khalsa identity evolved slowly over the course of the eighteenth century

• When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making Of The Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 available on March 16 2016 from Indigo for 74.0
  
• ISBN bar code 9780199756551 ξ2 registered March 16 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780199756551 ξ1 registered February 23 2015
  
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By focusing on the long-overlooked experiences of peasant communities, she traces the multiple perspectives and debates that eventually coalesced to create a composite Khalsa culture by 1799. When Sparrows Became Hawks incorporates and analyzes Sikh normative religious literature created during this period by reading it in the larger context of sources such as news reports, court histories, and other primary sources that show how actual practices were shaped in response to religious reforms. Recovering the agency of the peasants who dominated this community, Dhavan demonstrates how a dynamic process of debates, collaboration, and conflict among Sikh peasants, scholars, and chiefs transformed Sikh practices and shaped a new martial community.

^ Purnima DhavanWhen Sparrows Became Hawks : The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 by Purnima Dhavan (2011, Hardcover) ISBN 9780199756551 (revised Apr 2015)
^ (2012). When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making Of The Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 Indigo. ISBN 9780199756551 (revised Mar 2016)