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100			_aJudge, Paramjit S.
245			_aPolitics of Sikh identity and its fundamentalist assertion
260			_c2004
300			_ap.3949-954.
362			_a28 Aug
520			_aFirst it was the British who aimed to create a distinct Sikh identity, while the Singh Sabha movement sought to create sikh `Khalsa' identity by distinguishing it from Hindu. The Sikh political leadership in the early years of the 20th century was ambivalent in deciding who was a `Sikh'. It was Bhindranwala and the militants in his wake, who by their construction of a singular religious identity, attempted to transform a heterogeneous Sikh community into a `congregation'. While the latter project failed, the ambivalence of identity, however, continues in the policies of the Akali Party. - Reproduced.
650			_aSikhism
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a62316
999			_c62316 _d62316