... Hymns of Guru Nanak . Translated by Khushwant Singh . UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Indian Series. New Delhi : Orient Longmans , 1969 . xvi , 192 pp. Rs. 12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 227 of reproduction, paper...

...Spencer Lavan Guru Nanak and the Origins of the Sikh Faith . By Harbans Singh . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1969 . 247 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 711 modern behavioral...

...N. G. Barrier Perspectives on Guru Nanak: Seminar Papers . Edited by Harbans Singh . Patiala : Guru Gobind Singh Department of Religious Studies, Punjabi University , 1975 . xi, 549 pp. Participants, Index. Rs. 30.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK...

...Khushwant Singh Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion . By W. H. McLeod . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1968 . ix, 259 pp., Indexes. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 192 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES notes explaining unusual words and construc- notes...

...Barbara Ramusack History of the Punjab (A.D. 1000–1526) . Edited by Fauja Singh . Patiala : Punjabi University , 1972 . Third Volume, vi, 420 pp. Index. $6.00. (Dist. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.). Guru Nanak in History . By J. S. Grewal . Chandigarh : Publication Bureau...

...Robin Rinehart The Socially Involved Renunciate: Guru Nānak's Discourse to the Nāth Yogis . By Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and Jaswinder Singh Sandhu . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . xvi , 181 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

... of emphasis under the stewardship of the nine gurus who succeeded Nanak. McLeod only deals with the religion as taught by the founder. He has expended more energy in demonstrating the absurdity of many legends cherished by orthodox Sikhs than in elucidating the positive aspect of what remains. He has some...

... to perform myriad grammatical functions. The poetic style of Nanak and the early Gurus does not help matters, either. Their compositions are highly elliptic. They write with a minimum of grammatical connective tissue, and the task of "fleshing out" verses in terms of the prose syntax is left...

... of Sikhism and then analyzing Nanak's response to this milieu. The first part of Grewal's study evokes many aspects of Punjab under the Lodis more effectively than do the short essays in the Singh volume discussed above. While this may be due in part to Grewal having the advantage of greater space, it also...

... duction to possible influences of the Bundeli dialect of Hindi on Indrajit's Braj prose. Each verse of the Sanskrit text is numbered and followed by the Braj commentary. The text is also numbered according to page and line Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion. BY W. H. MCLEOD. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968...

... the orthodox Sikhs long to appreciate that Dayanand's belief in the infallibility of the Vedas was as uncompromising as that of the Muslims in the Koran. The Growth was to him a book of secondary importance, and the Sikh gurus men of little learning; Nanak, he denounced as a dambhī (hypocrite).Dayanand...

... a holistic, feminist reinterpretation of it. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapters 1-3 deconstruct Sikh patriarchy through an analysis of two key doctrines in Guru Nanak's hymns that utilize feminine nouns in Punjabi: bant ("utterance the vehicle of revelation, and joti ("light the divine spark...

... preserves the memory of Guru Nanak s visit to the Jagannath Temple at Puri, and Dantan Sahib Gurdwara on the bank of the Mahanadi at Cuttack is regarded as a testimony in stone to the visit (p. 74). The Oriya Nanak differs from the Guru Nanak of Janam-sakhis (Birth narratives). His image has been re...

... without a center? Guru Granth (the scriptural foundation of Sikh identity), Guru Nanak (the founder of the Sikh tradition), the nine successor Gurus (who build up the Sikh religion) have no place in Oberoi's study. His section on "Early Sikh Tradition" is weak. Even the Rahitnama literature, so important...

... seminar on Guru Nanak. Despite the tremendous amount of resources involved in the conference and subsequent volume, and the skillful editing by Professor Harbans Singh, this book contributes very little to a scholarly understanding of the Sikh faith. The fifty-four contributors go off in a myriad...

..., to protect their political power. Their concerns were to provide education for, and entrees to, the lucrative "Westernized" professions, as well as to sustain marriage networks as the caste members dispersed throughout the sub- Guru Nanak and the Origins of the Sikh Faith. BY HARBANS SINGH. Bombay: Asia...

... or the contemporary state of Sikhism. The monographs and cooperative studies on the Sikhs that have appeared recently tend to be eulogistic and descriptive in nature, a trend illustrated by this publication of papers from a 1969 anniversary seminar on Guru Nanak. Despite the tremendous amount of resources involved...

... by Sītaramśaran Bhagavānprasād Rūpkalā. Lucknow : Tejkumār Press . NĀmdev [attributed]. 1969 . Sant Nāmdev aur Hindī Pad-Sāhitya , ed. Miśra Rāmcandra . Farukhabad : Śailendra Sāhitya Sadan . NĀmdev [attributed]. 1980 . “Rāg Āsā, no. 4.” In Śrī Gurū Granth Sāhib , comp. from Nānak et al...

... love for humanity irrespective of caste, religion, or race. Operating in a plural world, the Sikh protagonists in his fiction (like Sundari who tears her scarf to bandage even her enemy) fully put Guru Nanak's concept of the One Ultimate into everyday life. Is Oberoi also mistaking identity...

...," the "association" and "combination" of "elements," "concessions to social needs," distinctive and contrasting "features," "incursions," and Even though McLeod's five essays on the "amalgams." Sikhs carry the imprimatur of Oxford Universi- Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, repre- ty's Clarendon Press...