Placing Max Arthur Macauliffe in context/s: Sikh historiographical traditions and colonial forms of knowledge

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-22T15:01:02Z
dc.date.available2017-03-22T15:01:02Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article pursues two interconnected inquiries into the work of M.A. Macauliffe. Firstly, the paper examines Macauliffe's work in light of general discussion in the historiography of colonial and modern South Asia regarding the relative influence of colonial forms of knowledge in the formation of South Asian subjectivities and texts in the period. This allows for understanding of the differentials in power imbedded within the 'dialogues' that produced texts like Macauliffe's. The paper explores the specifics of this question by, secondly, demonstrating the ways in which Macauliffe's work - presumably through his interaction with his interlocutors among the Sikhs and/or reading of Sikh texts - reflects existing Sikh historiographical commitments. In this, we attempt to assess the work in relation to a range of existing works in Punjabi and determine the genealogy of its creation, in Sikh historiographical terms. Assessment of these two seemingly contradictory contexts allows us to assess what was new - and what was not - in Macauliffe's representation of the Sikh past, and how we can assess the purportedly dialogical nature of the text within a broader field of power and knowledge.en
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dc.identifier.citationMURPHY, A. 2017. Placing Max Arthur Macauliffe in context/s: Sikh historiographical traditions and colonial forms of knowledge. Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 4(1), 58-73.en
dc.identifier.endpage73en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage58en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3820
dc.identifier.volume4en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://jisasr.org/
dc.rights(c)2017, The Author(s).en
dc.subjectMacauliffeen
dc.subjectSikhen
dc.subjectHistoriographyen
dc.subjectSouth Asiaen
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectNarrativeen
dc.subjectTranslationen
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.titlePlacing Max Arthur Macauliffe in context/s: Sikh historiographical traditions and colonial forms of knowledgeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (JISASR). Vol. 4, Issue 1, (2017)