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Dhadi Darbar

Religion, Violence, and the Performance of Sikh History

by Michael Nijhawan

An ethnographic and historical study of the dhadi bards who sing ballads of Sikh history to drum and sarangi. Nijhawan shows how their performances shape Sikh memory of martyrdom and conflict, especially in the twentieth century.

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