Philosophical transgression and self cultivation in the Purātan Janamsākhī: Bhāī Vīr Singh and modern Sikh reading practices

Grewal, Harjeet Singh

doi:10.1080/17448727.2019.1674520

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“…Most archival citations in contemporary scholarship fall into two primary categories: (1) colonial state archives (for example, British or Indian national and regional archives that contain colonial administrative documents) or (2) references to other scholars' work in which these archives are cited. 86 The decision to selectively use these archives and to turn away from community and toward the academy must be noted as a choice. On the one hand, scholars note the absence of an explicit Sikh archive, which was destroyed through multiple, intentional attacks on Sikh community libraries and institutions of community memory.…”

Section: Propagating Definitional Recovery: Global Sikh Formations Ve...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic Wounded Attachments: Recovering Definitional Subjectivity Through Colonial Libraries

Kaur

KEHAL

2023

History and Theory

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Postcolonial theorizing on empires and subjects focuses on governance and infrastructure as relevant geographies of relation. However, when governance‐driven knowledge production migrates from colony to metropole, what postcolonial subjectivity formations are recovered from colonial archives, particularly if these archives are structured by epistemic difference? We theorize a wounded attachment to a colonial library, or the construction of subjectivity through colonial archival recovery, as a means of transforming a colonial library of governance into an academic discipline. Through the case study of Sikh studies, a discipline originating out of colonial governance of Sikhs, we argue that epistemic difference is transformed into epistemic distancing as a tool by which scholars pursue legibility to the Euro‐American academy. We contextualize the ongoing investment in measures of academic legibility (for example, objectivity, distance, and validity) as how area and region are tied to the production of universal knowledge; these measures result in the elision of embodied knowledge as a valid framework for intellectual pursuit.

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Section: Propagating Definitional Recovery: Global Sikh Formations Ve...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic Wounded Attachments: Recovering Definitional Subjectivity Through Colonial Libraries

Kaur

KEHAL

2023

History and Theory

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Philosophical transgression and self cultivation in the Purātan Janamsākhī: Bhāī Vīr Singh and modern Sikh reading practices

Cited by 1 publication

References 14 publications

Epistemic Wounded Attachments: Recovering Definitional Subjectivity Through Colonial Libraries

Epistemic Wounded Attachments: Recovering Definitional Subjectivity Through Colonial Libraries

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