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Sikh Religion and Contentions around Caste

Religions
Caste has been a contentious subject in Sikhism. While the Sikh theological canons have vehemently opposed its practice, it continues to be present among the Sikhs, including its discriminatory culture.
Surinder S. Jodhka
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Assessing outgroup prejudice among secondary school pupils in northern England : introducing the Outgroup Prejudice Index [PDF]

, 2010
The Outgroup Prejudice Index is a six-item scale that uses social distance to assess prejudice towards ethnic and religious out groups among Asians and Whites.
Brockett, Adrian, Francis, Leslie J., Village, Andrew   +2 more
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Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (Review Article) [PDF]

, 2007
This is a large volume with around 300 entries and 130 contributors, mostly from the USA. The editors are child developmental psychologists. ‘Spiritual development’ is taken to be ‘aboutbecoming a whole person, someone who stands for something that ...
Bigger, Stephen
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To Sikh or Not to Sikh: In Defense of the Sikh Shawl

Sikh Research Journal
This essay challenges the long-held claim that European, particularly French, design influenced the Kashmir shawl during the early 19th century. Instead, it argues that the transformation in shawl motifs, marked by architectural, geometric, and Khalsa-inspired imagery, originated within the Sikh cultural and political milieu of Punjab under Maharaja ...
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Review of Race Scholarship and the War on Terror [PDF]

, 2018
The 9/11 terrorist attacks and heavy-handed state and popular response to them stimulated increased scholarship on American Muslims. In the social sciences, this work has focused mainly on Arabs and South Asians, and more recently on African Americans ...
Cainkar, Louise, Selod, Saher
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CHANGING SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF BANGALORE CITY – INDIA : A STUDY [PDF]

Analele Universității din Craiova. Seria Geografie, 2007
Bangalore is a medieval city founded by Kempe Gowda in 1536 as a simple trading centre. Capital of Karnataka, the city is 5th largest state with many dubious distinctions (no. 2 city in come tax, no. 3 in number of automotives).
B. ESWARAPPA
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Introduction to Sikhs and Sikhism [PDF]

Part of teaching materials (Masters level) in religious studies. It covers the history, beliefs and practices of Sikhs and includes examples of prayers, poetry and writings.
Bigger, Stephen
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Kashmir: Occupation and Resistance

الإيضاح, 2012
"Kashmir became a part of the Muslim World in the 14th century C E .Under the local Sultans (1325-1585), the Mughals (1586-1752) and the Path┐ns (1752-1819), it developed into a state and society with its own peculiar Islamic culture.
Dr. S.M. Younus Gilani
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History of Religious Extremism and Radicalization in Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, 2020
The religious extremism has started in the region from the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan in 1979 and it was heat up when Pakistan had supported US-led ally forces in Afghanistan against Al-Qaeda and Taliban after 9/11 terrorist attacks..
Surriya Shahab
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"Bravest of the brave": the making and re-making of 'the Gurkhas', 1857-2009 [PDF]

This paper explores the history of Gurkha recruiting from the mid-nineteenth century, charting the emergence and subsequent reworkings of a discourse of Nepalese 'martial aptitude.
Rand, Gavin
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