The Materiality of the Past —— History and Representation in Sikh Tradition

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ISBN: 9780199916290 出版年：2013 页码：326 Murphy, Anne Oxford University Press

Recently, the field of Sikh Studies has generated a lot of interest in the West. But most of these studies tend to be influenced by the late W H McLeod who was the most ardent proponent and forerunner of the materialistic school of thought. He introduced and propagated new methodologies, new themes and new models of history writing based on materialistic interpretations of history. He introduced some fundamental changes in history writing and shaped the direction of Sikh Studies in the West from what came to be called, ‘a post colonial perspective’ on the modern secular lines. Chairs of Sikh Studies in America and Canada also tend to be dominated by McLeodian model of history writing. Anne Murphy, Assistant Professor of Sikh Studies at British Columbia University is on the same bandwagon as McLeod and is adopting the same model for history writing.