Böcker av Bob van der Linden

Cultivating Sikh Identity and Culture explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the 'cultivation of culture'. Investigating diverse, but repeatedly overlapping, Sikh encounters in the fields of art, music and philology, this book is of particular interest to scholars of religion, South Asian Studies and history.

Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.