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100			_aFazal, Tanweer _933379
245			_aCommunity, nation and region: Shrimoni Akali Dal (SAD) and the politics of community formation
260			_aSociological Bulletin
300			_a70(4), Oct, 2021: p.557-573
520			_aThis article relies on a historical sociology approach to trace the shifting trajectory of community formation and the forging of boundaries through three discrete though corresponding imaginaries—panth (community), qaum (nation) and punjabiyat (regional identity)—in the Sikh political narrative. The emergence of each of these grand ideas of Sikh solidity has a history putatively inter-laced with the social make up and political economy of its time. The central object of enquiry for this article is the Shrimoni Akali Dal (SAD) and the attempt is to examine the shifting terrain of its religio-political goals and objectives. Since its inception in 1920, the SAD as a political organisation and Shrimoni Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee as the chief ecclesiastical authority, have been the principle bearers of the Sikh religio-political consciousness. The three constitutive imageries of community formation that SAD in particular and Sikh politics in general has fostered, do not betray a linear trajectory. Instead, there is a discernible simultaneity where each of these ideas co-exist, but subject to contextual operationalisation. – Reproduced
650			_aCommunity, Nation, Minority, Region, Shrimoni Akali Dal, Qaum, Panth, Punjabiyat. _931449
773			_aSociological Bulletin
906			_aRELIGION
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