Abstract

ABSTRACTThe study argues that Odisha has long been a contested terrain between different Sikh traditions. The Otherization of Indian-Sikhs in Sikh Studies has marginalized their enduring and variegated agency in Odishan history. Immigrant Sikhs came from diverse territorial locations and wide-ranging professional expertise. Their growing presence, with numerous gurdwaras under an apex body, celebration of community festivals, Khalsa schools, and so on, gave them the opportunity to recreate home in Odisha. These representations made them not only a visible minority community in the host society, but transformed them into a diaspora. Some of these issues are critically examined in the essay.

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