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In this episode we are joined by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh who is a Professor of Religion and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Colby College. We discuss her two books, “The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent” and also “The Birth of the Khalsa - A Feminist Re-Memory of Sikh Identity”.

In this episode we are joined by Sahiba Kaur Chadha who is an architect by profession but also runs an online blog called PodCards from the Colonies, which is a series of podcasts episodes which tell the personal stories and oral histories of people that have lived experiences or memories of British Colonialism.

In this episode we are joined by Professor Balbinder Singh Bhogal, an associate professor in Religion and the holder of the Chair in Sikh Studies at Hofstra University. We will be exploring a discussion on Sikhi and Buddhism and more generally the outlook of world religions with respect to western, Indic and east Asian faith and traditions. Professor Bhogal's academic profile and publications are...

In this episode we are joined by Dr Dalvir Singh Pannu, who is a dentist by profession but also a scholar of Sikh heritage in Pakistan. He has led a life long self-funded campaign driven by his passion to document and illustrate the Sikh heritage sites in Pakistan through the lens of architecture and sikh history.

In this episode we are joined by Professor Seema Sohi who is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss her book, “Echoes of Mutiny” which examines the radical anticolonial politics of South Asian intellectuals and migrant workers based in North America during the early twentieth century as well as the inter-imperial efforts of the U.S. and British states to repr...

In this episode we are joined by Professor Kate Imy from the University of North Texas, where she is a historian of war and empire teaching classes on questions of identity (race, gender, class, religion) in the twentieth-century British imperial world. We will be discussing her book, “Faithful Fighters” which explores the racial and religious inclusivity of Indians in the British Empire against t...

In this episode we are joined by Satwinder Kaur Bains who is a professor at the University of Fraser Valley in Social Cultural Media Studies. We discuss today her latest article, titled “Interrogating Gender in Sikh Tradition and Practice” where we explore the meaning of Sikh feminism as well as trying to understand how ideas of representation and identity find expression in response to our unders...

In this episode we are joined by Dr Laura Hirvi who is from Finland and Germany and is currently the director of the Finland Institute of culture, science and business in German speaking Europe. We discuss today how and why the Sikhs migrated to Finland and how they settled and established the community in Helsinki.

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the tenth episode in our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history. In this episode we are joined by Professor Radhika Chopra, who is the author of the book, Militant and Migrant which is the book we will be largely dis...

In this episode we are joined by Professor Himadri Banerjee who has spent the last 40 years researching the Sikhs outside of Panjab, namely those found in the North Eastern territories of India such as Bengal, Assam and Orissa. We discuss his longstanding research area on this topic and more.

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the eighth episode in our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history. In this episode we are joined by Professor Ronki Ram who is a leading scholar on the study of Caste with a particular focus on it in Punjab. We discus...

Hi my name is Sukhraj Singh and welcome to the seventh podcast episode by SikhArchive in our Sikh history series, where today we are joined by PhD researcher Asha Sawhney, to discuss the Sikhs of Iran with respect to the religious association between Iran and Sikhi as well as the current day community that migrated there throughout the 20th century.  Asha is well versed in Sikh literature and used...

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh and welcome to the sixth history podcast by SikhArchive, today we are joined by the journalist and activist Phil Miller from the organisation called Declassified UK, to discuss his monumental work of 2014 which exposed the British involvement and collaboration with the Indian State in 1984 regarding operation bluestar and the State violence that subsequently followed.  In Jan...

Hi my name is Sukhraj Singh and welcome to the fifth podcast episode by SikhArchive in our Sikh history series, where today we are joined by the author and activist Zarina Patel from Kenya, to discuss her book, “Unquiet”: which explores the life and times of Makhan Singh, who was the great trade unionist and anticolonial revolutionary in Kenya. I’ve been wanting to do this podcast for a very long...

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the fourth episode in our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history. In this episode we are joined by Professor Kama Maclean, who is a professor of South Asian History and the author of the book, “A Revolutionary Histor...

An episode on the shared history and philosophy of the Sikhs and Tamils from the time of Guru Nanak to the resistance against the Indian state from both communities in the 1980s.

Hi my name is Sukhraj Singh and Welcome to the second episode of SikhArchive podcasts, a series of conversations with historians, authors and academics on topics related to their areas of expertise of Sikh history. In this episode, we are joined by Professor Karen Leonard, who is a historian and anthropologist at the University of California. With a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin (1969) o...

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from SikhArchive and welcome to the 1st episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers, and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.   In this week's episode, our guest is Dr. Kamal Arora, an anthropologist whose research area explores the religious practices of Sikh women and in p...