Sacred fabric and sacred stitches: The underwear of the Khalsa

History of Religions

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 284-302

  Singh, Nikky Guninder Kaur ^a  

^a Colby College

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EID: 61249320549     PISSN: 00182710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/426737     Document Type: Review

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2. Fifteen percent is the approximate figure provided by Hew McLeod in his recent text, Sikhs of the Khalsa: A History of the Khalsa Rahit (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 8.
3. Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self: The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1988), 3:43.
4. Koer Singh, Gurbilas Patshahi 10, ed. Shamsher Singh (Patiala: Punjabi University, 1968), p. 130 (chap. 9, verse 40). All translations are the author's.
5. Ravi Batra, Leadership in Its Finest Mould: Guru Gobind Singh (Amritsar: SGPC, 1979), p. 26.
6. S. S. Johar, Handbook on Sikhism (Delhi: Vivek, 1977), p. 96.
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8. Sahib Singh, Guru Gobind Singh: Life History, His Mission and Significance of Four Breaches and Five Symbols of Khalsa Discipline (Jullundur: Raj, 1967), p. 109.
9. Kapur Singh, The Baisakhi if Guru Gobind Singh (Jullundur: Hind, 1959), p. 153.
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11. Nita Kumar, in her introduction to Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994), p. 21.
12. Ursula King, ed., Religion and Gender (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), p. 5.
13. New York Times (April 22, 2001).
14. As in the case of her protagonist, Roop, in Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers (New York: Doubleday, 1999).
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17. With Bhai Gurdas as the scribe, Guru Arjan worked extremely hard in a picturesque spot on the outskirts of Amritsar. He selected the verses of his four predecessors, as well as songs and hymns by Hindu and Muslim saints from among a continually increasing body of literature. For his excellent editorial skills, see Pashaura Singh, The Guru Granth: Canon, Meaning and Authority (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000).
18. Guru Gobind Singh, Akal Ustati: 86. See Sabdarath Dasam Granth Sahib, ed. Bhai Randhir Singh (Patiala: Punjabi University, 1985).
19. Nancy J. Chodorow, The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 2.
20. Geoffrey Parrinder, Sexual Morality in the World's Religions (Oxford: Oneworld, 1996), p. 45.
21. Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic," in Weaving the Visions: Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, ed. Judith Plaskow and Carol Christ (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 210.
22. Sandra Lee Bartky, "Suffering to Be Beautiful," in Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism, ed. Constance L. Mui and Julien S. Murphy (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), p. 248.
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24. Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies, trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 16.
25. See Paula M. Cooey, Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Analysis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 25.
26. Carter Heyward, "Sexuality, Love, and Justice," in Plaskow and Christ, eds. (n. 34 above), pp. 295-96.
27. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (New York: Crossroad, 1989), p. 78.
28. See Sandra Lipsitz Bim's conclusion to her superb study, The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993), pp. 194-96.