On Violence and The Sikhs with Professor Arvind Pal Singh Mandair
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In this episode, we are joined by Professor Arvind Pal Singh Mandair, who is a prolific author, a philosopher by training, and a Professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan. Arvind has recently released a book titled, “Violence and the Sikhs” which is published by Cambridge University Press as part a larger series that examines religion and violence. In this conversation, we discuss the motivation behind professor Mandair’s writings on the philosophy of violence in Sikhi, how it isunderstood as modern and premodern conceptions of violence, and finally inclosing, how we try to understand Sikhi and Violence with regards to recent events in relation to sikh resistance movements in Punjab and in the diaspora.
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