Abstract
This essay examines Sikh ethical discourses and practices articulated in a tract by Mohan Singh Vaid, originally published in 1919, which argues for the transformative power of parupakār (philanthropy or benevolence) in spiritual and social terms. The essay places this work in a larger context, to trace the contours of Sikh ethical practice in relation to evolving ideas of reform in the colonial period, community mobilization organized around religious identity in that context, and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination with the onset of the wide use of the printing press in the region in the late nineteenth century.
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