The gurdwara as a community institution
Look beyond a building’s exterior to understand worship, gathering, hospitality and the work that sustains a gurdwara.
Punjab connections and diaspora institutions
Institutions & belonging
Communities & faiths.
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The Khalsa as a religious community: initiation, discipline and shared responsibility
The Khalsa connects the remembered founding by Guru Gobind Singh with initiation, religious discipline and the continuing institution of the Panj Piare.
Punjab and Sikh religious communities worldwide
The Lahore Singh Sabha: organisation, education and a reforming press
The Lahore Singh Sabha brought teachers, organisers and journalists into a religious reform network whose influence extended through schools, meetings and newspapers.
Lahore and connected Punjabi associations
The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee: shrines and pilgrimage
The PSGPC’s history sits within Pakistan’s arrangements for Sikh religious institutions, shrine property and the practical organisation of pilgrimage.
Pakistan, including Sikh pilgrimage routes across Punjab
The SGPC: gurdwara reform, statutory administration and accountability
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee developed from the gurdwara reform movement into an institution with religious responsibilities and a statutory administrative framework.
Punjab and the historical jurisdiction described by the 1925 legislation
Udasi traditions: ascetic teaching, monasteries and Punjabi heritage
Udasi traditions connect reverence for Guru Nanak and Sikh scripture with ascetic lineages, centres of learning and distinctive institutional histories.
Punjab and wider North Indian monastic networks
Valmiki communities in Punjab: religious memory and cultural assertion
Valmiki religious identity in Punjab can be explored through community movements, the sacred landscape of Ram Tirath and modern public heritage projects.
Punjab, particularly Amritsar
Women in Punjabi religious institutions: leadership, learning and unequal access
Specific accounts of women’s institutional roles and musical practice show both participation and barriers. The cases span Sikh settings and a Catholic jurisdiction, without claiming to survey every tradition.
Indian Punjab and Punjabi networks in Delhi
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