Pritam Singh Tinna A few days back, a Sikh friend came to me and asked, “can we not burn down all the liquor shops?” The question might have reflected some kind of illiberal ideas in front of liberal ideals. It might seem to reek of some kind of orthodoxy in the Sikh belief systems …
Religious Resistance and the Problem of Caste: Is Caste Secular?
Pritam Singh Tinna (A part of this paper was presented at annual Sociology conference held at Jamia Milia Islamia University and the rest was edited and written again for this publication) Oscar A Romero, a liberation theologian and the archbishop of El Salvador was killed in the year 1980 for intermixing “politics with religion”. …
Secularism and the Maintenance of Caste Hierarchies: Notes from Sikh Studies
Pritam Singh Tinna (This paper was presented at Young Researchers’ Conference, Beyond the Icon: Ambedkar’s Legacy for Our Times held at Ambedkar University Delhi on the 23rd of February 2018) In an opinion article published in the Hindu dated September 3, 2001, Andre Beteille, taking notes from M.N Srinivas writes: “It would be unthinkable …