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Relocating Gender in Sikh History

Transformation, Meaning and Identity

by Doris R. Jakobsh

A historical study of how women's roles have been represented in Sikh sources from the Gurus to the colonial reform movements. Jakobsh argues that the egalitarian ideals of the scripture were unevenly realised and reshaped by Victorian-era reformers.

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