Patshahi Mehima - Revisiting Sikh Sovereignty

[Premi]

https://www.khalishouse.com/store/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty-p408742089

Starting with the arrival of Gurū Nānak Sāhib, the book revisits the revolutionary rise of the Sikh Panth covering over five hundred and fifty years of history. Ranveer Singh presents how the Gurū Sāhibān proactively created new paradigms of existence that offered a liberating alternative to the clutches of totalitarian and oppressive power structures built and tied to haumai. While Sikh consciousness was at the nucleus of this transformation, the author presents how the doctrine of Sikh sovereignty was integral to this process, allowing the praxis of Gurmat to exist independently through the standing of Gurū’s Darbār, and the manifestations of Sikh Rāj that followed.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty/dp/1838143734/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1643480328&refinements=p_27%3ARanveer+Singh&s=books&sr=1-1&asin=1838143734&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

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@dalsingh101 - what you think ?

[dalsingh101]

17 minutes ago, Premi said:

https://www.khalishouse.com/store/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty-p408742089

Starting with the arrival of Gurū Nānak Sāhib, the book revisits the revolutionary rise of the Sikh Panth covering over five hundred and fifty years of history. Ranveer Singh presents how the Gurū Sāhibān proactively created new paradigms of existence that offered a liberating alternative to the clutches of totalitarian and oppressive power structures built and tied to haumai. While Sikh consciousness was at the nucleus of this transformation, the author presents how the doctrine of Sikh sovereignty was integral to this process, allowing the praxis of Gurmat to exist independently through the standing of Gurū’s Darbār, and the manifestations of Sikh Rāj that followed.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty/dp/1838143734/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1643480328&refinements=p_27%3ARanveer+Singh&s=books&sr=1-1&asin=1838143734&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

'7

 

@dalsingh101 - what you think ?

I've not heard of this guy, but it certainly looks interesting! 

I don't think we have much decolonised accounts of Sikhi in english. 

[dalsingh101]

4 hours ago, Premi said:

https://www.khalishouse.com/store/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty-p408742089

Starting with the arrival of Gurū Nānak Sāhib, the book revisits the revolutionary rise of the Sikh Panth covering over five hundred and fifty years of history. Ranveer Singh presents how the Gurū Sāhibān proactively created new paradigms of existence that offered a liberating alternative to the clutches of totalitarian and oppressive power structures built and tied to haumai. While Sikh consciousness was at the nucleus of this transformation, the author presents how the doctrine of Sikh sovereignty was integral to this process, allowing the praxis of Gurmat to exist independently through the standing of Gurū’s Darbār, and the manifestations of Sikh Rāj that followed.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patshahi-Mehima-Revisiting-Sikh-Sovereignty/dp/1838143734/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1643480328&refinements=p_27%3ARanveer+Singh&s=books&sr=1-1&asin=1838143734&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

'7

 

@dalsingh101 - what you think ?

Just scanning through a few pages of the book that are free to read on Amazon. I like what I've read thus far. 

[dalsingh101]

@Premi

We were just talking about this, weren't we! (Sikhi vs 'Sikhism')

 

[Premi]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/lanarkshire-authors-delight-book-500-26889288
 

Lanarkshire author's delight as book on 500 years of Sikh history published

Ranveer Singh, from Newmains, has been hailed by a whole host of academics following the release of Patshahi Mehima - Revisiting Sikh Sovereignty.

By

Ross Thomson

• 15:50, 7 MAY 2022
• UPDATED20:45, 8 MAY 2022

Ranveer Singh with his new book (Image: WISHAW PRESS)

A Lanarkshire author has spoken of his pride after publishing his second book.

Ranveer Singh, from Newmains, has been hailed by a whole host of academics following the release of Patshahi Mehima - Revisiting Sikh Sovereignty.

The book was seven years in the making with Ranveer combining his research and writing along with work and raising a family

 

Speaking to Lanarkshire Live this week, Ranveer said: “My family are really proud, my mum and dad especially.

“My wife has been incredibly supportive as a lot of the writing and researching was done while the kids were in bed.

“I’d be writing into the early hours of the morning.

 

“Before lockdown I would be commuting to Edinburgh for work then spending with the kids before starting work. That’s why it took seven years to complete.”

Ranveer’s book details the history of the Sikh religion with a starting point being the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site for Sikhs located in Amritsar, Punjab by Indian security forces.

 

Newmains author Ranveer Singh with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (Image: WSH])

Ranveer also revealed that his latest book has got one major fan in the form of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who he met along with a number of MSPs at an event in Edinburgh.

He also confirmed plans to already write a third book, a historical novel which is already in the works.

He added: “It was kind of last minute but I was asked to come along to an event in Edinburgh where a number of MSPs where there including the First Minister.

“I was really pleased with the reaction the book got and we had a pleasant chat after it where we talked about a number of issues such as de-colonising the curriculum

[dalsingh101]

Nice one for highlighting this @Premi

Sometimes it can feel like certain important topics (to us) are marginal (even amongst our own!). But the truth is that a lot of stuff we talk about in terms of the enduring negative effects of colonialism, and how western historiography and  modern day 'orientalism' creates manipulative structures isn't just a minority issue, and many other communities are affected by them too.    Because we may live in epicentre sources of such propaganda, it's good to remind ourselves that there are others out there (and not just amongst apnay) who understand why confronting this and charting a new course is central to our future.  

[Premi]

53 minutes ago, dalsingh101 said:

Nice one for highlighting this @Premi

Sometimes it can feel like certain important topics (to us) are marginal (even amongst our own!). But the truth is that a lot of stuff we talk about in terms of the enduring negative effects of colonialism, and how western historiography and  modern day 'orientalism' creates manipulative structures isn't just a minority issue, and many other communities are affected by them too.    Because we may live in epicentre sources of such propaganda, it's good to remind ourselves that there are others out there (and not just amongst apnay) who understand why confronting this and charting a new course is central to our future.  

I'm reading that Shashi Tharoor book, it's opening my mind up more

I know many in my family/close relatives (and probably most Panjabis) still think the Anglos were great. Someone close in my family even thinks the Anglos should be running the country now (although in fairness, maybe post-Partition, Panjab and India have been administered poorly which is maybe not a coincidence given what we know happened during partition )

[Sajjan_Thug]

On 1/29/2022 at 10:42 AM, dalsingh101 said:

I've not heard of this guy, but it certainly looks interesting! 

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity for sampradays to work with him and support him and promote him?  If sampradays aren't willing to do the research at least they should promote the one who is.

On 1/29/2022 at 10:42 AM, dalsingh101 said:

I don't think we have much decolonised accounts of Sikhi in english. 

Would you put the blame on the west or apney?

[Sajjan_Thug]

On 5/23/2022 at 6:46 AM, dalsingh101 said:

Because we may live in epicentre sources of such propaganda, it's good to remind ourselves that there are others out there (and not just amongst apnay) who understand why confronting this and charting a new course is central to our future.  

Which organization and institution from apney side do you believe is confronting this and charting a new course for the panth?

[dalsingh101]

17 hours ago, Sajjan_Thug said:

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity for sampradays to work with him and support him and promote him?  If sampradays aren't willing to do the research at least they should promote the one who is.

This guy seems to be doing a grand job of promoting the work himself by the looks of it. I would like to know how people back home react to it. But it's probably going to be a work that is a world away from what they are familiar with. Personally I think back home (for a variety of reasons) are well behind in terms of where Sikhi studies is going in the diaspora, mainly because they are constrained by having to constantly try and teach generally semi-literate folks or folks who have limited education - on top of all the twisted politics out there.     

 

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 Would you put the blame on the west or apney?

Both, but I'd definitely put more blame on apnay for failing to develop and promote a robust, respected, intellectual culture amongst our own. But then you could also argue that the majority of apnay are averse to such things and are operating at a more base level (i.e. lower down on Maslow's hierarchy of needs). We can't discount the legacy of this (below) though, but not having addressed it and corrected our moorings since then is squarely on us:

 

 

[dalsingh101]

17 hours ago, Sajjan_Thug said:

Which organization and institution from apney side do you believe is confronting this and charting a new course for the panth?

I don't think any single organisation should be solely responsible for this, I think it should be a ground level movement that pervades throughout the panth. It has to come from the heart and soul of the panth at ground level. 

[Premi]

Just read a few pages 

Interesting account about Vaisakhi 1695

[dalsingh101]

1 hour ago, Premi said:

Just read a few pages 

Interesting account about Vaisakhi 1695

Be nice if you could post the footnote from the first page. 

[Premi]

18 minutes ago, dalsingh101 said:

Be nice if you could post the footnote from the first page. 

 

[dalsingh101]

Pure good reviews of this book:

 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59683665

 

[dalsingh101]

@Premi

Did you finish the book then. What do you think of it?

[Premi]

17 hours ago, dalsingh101 said:

@Premi

Did you finish the book then. What do you think of it?

I have read little of the book overall. 

Not sure how much you would learn from it since you have read lots of Sikh history books before 

But I think relative novices like me can learn a lot from it

[dalsingh101]

24 minutes ago, Premi said:

I have read little of the book overall. 

Not sure how much you would learn from it since you have read lots of Sikh history books before 

But I think relative novices like me can learn a lot from it

Are you dyslexic? 

 

Book looks fascinating?

I'm sure I'd pick up at least a few new things from it - at the very least. 

[dalsingh101]

1 hour ago, Premi said:

Not sure how much you would learn from it since you have read lots of Sikh history books before 

 

There has been next to nothing produced that was post-colonial - remember that! I've had to unlearn a lot of what I learnt from skewed sources.  

[Premi]

On 5/10/2023 at 8:27 PM, dalsingh101 said:

Are you dyslexic? 

 

Book looks fascinating?

I'm sure I'd pick up at least a few new things from it - at the very least. 

No.

Book looks okay, the pages are light on words though which might or might.not be a negative.

I have not generally read books properly for many years; I skim read books instead. 

I have spent much time including and since Uni reading medical books /literature (less now, most new stuff is on the Net) because of my work as a GP/family medicine so reading other books properly can seem a big effort 

however, I shall keep the book in mind and maybe best is I post excerpts of anything I found especially interesting or previously unknown

[dalsingh101]

1 hour ago, Premi said:

Book looks okay, the pages are light on words though which might or might.not be a negative.

I don't get what you are trying to say here. Although I haven't read all the book, from what I gather, it seems to be what I'd call a  'framework' book. By this I mean that the value of it isn't necessarily in the details (although I'm sure there will be important ones within), but in how it helps us to reframe our history and form a more holistic schema of it - which is so important right now, as we're just coming out of the imposed colonial-era one, that was basically a method to tame, confuse and control the panth. 

 

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I have not generally read books properly for many years; I skim read books instead. 

I have spent much time including and since Uni reading medical books /literature (less now, most new stuff is on the Net) because of my work as a GP/family medicine so reading other books properly can seem a big effort 

 

 

You have to slow it down then. Absorb the info. I go through phases where I struggle to read and concentrate but then I stumble across some work that snaps me out of it.  The skim reading may be preventing you from grasping the contents in the way it needs to be. 

 

Also, I'm glad you posted the above, I was beginning to get worried you were an undercover copper. lol!! So you dispense jack and jills then. 

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however, I shall keep the book in mind and maybe best is I post excerpts of anything I found especially interesting or previously unknown

    Nice. 

[dalsingh101]

On 5/13/2023 at 8:42 PM, Premi said:

I have spent much time including and since Uni reading medical books /literature (less now, most new stuff is on the Net) because of my work as a GP/family medicine so reading other books properly can seem a big effort 

I think I've figured out who you really are.........

 

 

[Premi]

16 hours ago, dalsingh101 said:

I think I've figured out who you really are.........

 

 

 

[dalsingh101]

39 minutes ago, Premi said:

Did you have to put such a big picture... and seeing as you love him so much...

It wasn't that big when I copied and pasted it from google!!

Anyway, seeing as you've been slyly acting like some clueless, Forest Gump type character on these forums for years, I'd thought I'd 'out' you. lol! 

Just an aside, notice how the BBC's pedo protection and predilection hasn't even stopped even after Saville and all those convicted children's TV presenters:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12105541/Protester-Spider-Man-mask-launches-new-hammer-attack-BBC-statue-carved-evil-paedophile.html 

[Premi]

To help bring this topic back on topic and remove the trash from it, @dalsingh101, maybe you could please remove that photo now?

I still haven't read the book properly but scanned through to find a passage that I learned something from , the 'Minas'