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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 130726" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><span style="color: Blue">Forwarded by Tejwant Singh ji Malik</span></p><p></p><p>SIKH STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN</p><p>September 2009-May 2010</p><p>Donald S. Lopez, Jr.</p><p></p><p>Chair, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures</p><p></p><p>In September 2006, Arvind Mandair joined the faculty of the University of Michigan’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures as the Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha and Gurbaksh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Assistant Professor of Sikh Studies. Professor Mandair came to Michigan from the</p><p>Department of Religious Studies at Hofstra University, where he held the S.K.K. Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies. Having completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Warwick in 1998,</p><p>Professor Mandair was, at the time of his appointment, the co-author of Teaching of the Sikh Gurus:</p><p></p><p>Selections from Sikh Scriptures (Routledge, 2005) and the author of numerous articles in leading academic journals.</p><p></p><p>CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP</p><p>In November 2009, Professor Mandair’s first single-authored monograph, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Translation, was published by Columbia University Press. He is currently working on two new monographs: Mourning Sovereignty: Sikhism,</p><p>Civil Society and the State, Communicating Ecstasy: Encounters Between Sikh and Western Thought, on comparative philosophy and religion.</p><p></p><p>At the end of 2010 a major volume of new essays entitled Secularism and Religion-Making, co-edited by Professor Mandair, will be published by Oxford University Press (New York) in paperback and hardback.</p><p></p><p>In 2009-2010, Mandair also published several articles including: “Sikhism for Healthcare Professionals” in a new book entitled World Religions For Healthcare Professionals (Routledge, 2009); </p><p></p><p>“Translations of Violence: Revisiting Discourses of Sikh Ethnonationalism” in Secularism and Religion Making (Oxford University Press, 2010);</p><p></p><p> “Modernity, Religion-Making and the Postsecular”, a major introduction to the</p><p>volume Secularism and Religion-Making (Oxford University Press, 2010).</p><p>2</p><p>Professor Mandair is one of the founding editors of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, and Theory, a journal in its fifth year of publication, published by Routledge. This peer-reviewed journal is now based at the University of Michigan and will begin publishing three issues per year in 2011.</p><p></p><p>Professor Mandair continues to serve on the Sikh Studies Consultation Group of the American Academy of Religion, a group which he helped establish in 2007. This group provides the first consistent representation of Sikh Studies in the largest scholarly organization dedicated to the academic study of</p><p>religion.</p><p></p><p>TEACHING AND GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING</p><p>Courses Taught Fall 2009</p><p></p><p>Asian 305 Religion and Violence in a Secular World, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 34)</p><p>Asian 480 Sikh Religion and Philosophy (graduate course with enrollment of 13)</p><p>Asian 499 Independent Study in Advanced Punjabi</p><p>Asian 699 Independent Study in Classical Punjabi (language of Sikh Scripture)</p><p></p><p>Courses Taught Winter 2010</p><p>Asian 381 Postcolonial Theory, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 18)</p><p>Asian 220 Introduction to Asian Religions, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 85)</p><p>Asian 499 Independent Study in Advanced Punjabi</p><p>Asian 699 Independent Study in Classical Punjabi (language of Sikh Scripture)</p><p></p><p>Courses to be taught in 2010-2011</p><p>Asian 303 Warrior Saints: Introduction to Sikh Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity</p><p>Asian 380 What is Religion? (Topics in Asian Studies)</p><p></p><p>Graduate Student Advising</p><p>Professor Mandair is currently on the advisory committees of five Ph.D. students in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and one student in the Department of Anthropology (Punnu Jaitla). Three</p><p>of these students are working on topics directly related to Sikh and Punjab studies: Sikh Musical Traditions (Nirinjan Khalsa), Violence and Religion in Sikh History and Literature (Harjeet Grewal), Punjabi Linguistics (Punnu Jaitla). There are also several MA students based in the Center for South</p><p>Asian Studies who are taking Sikh-related courses with Professor Mandair (Ranjanpreet Nagra and Sean Chauhan). The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures continues to attract more excellent Sikh Studies applicants to its graduate program than it is able to accept, due to funding constraints.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Modern and Classical Punjabi</p><p>The Sikh Studies endowment also supports the teaching of Punjabi language. Dr. Pinderjeet Gill, who joined the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in 2005, is instructor of modern Punjabi language. Modern Punjabi is currently taught on an alternating cycle. In one year, Dr. Gill teaches firstyear Punjabi, with the second-year course offered in the following academic year. The enrollments in the Punjabi language courses attract around ten to fifteen students each year. In 2009-2010 there were</p><p>sixteen students enrolled in first-year Punjabi in the fall and thirteen students enrolled in the winter. As of July 26, 2010, ten students have signed up for second-year Punjabi for the 2010-2011 academic year.</p><p>Classical Punjabi (the language of Sikh Scripture) is taught by Professor Mandair as an independent study.</p><p></p><p></p><p>SERVICE</p><p></p><p>During the period of May 2009 to May 2010 Professor Mandair delivered a total of eleven academic and public lectures and organized one conference:</p><p></p><p>• November 30 to December 4 2009, delivered the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. This was a set of five public lectures focusing on Sikhism. For details of the lectures please click on the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/</a></p><p></p><p>• September 2009, organized and co-directed a two day conference at the University of California, Berkeley to mark twenty-five years after 1984. The conference was funded by Sikh communities in California and New Jersey. The conference, entitled “After 1984?” is now in the process of being published in the journal Sikh Formations (December 2010).</p><p></p><p>• May 2009, delivered a paper on “Secularism and Political Violence” at a major workshop on Sikh Ethnonationalism held at the University of Birmingham (UK) and attended by the leading scholars working in this area.</p><p></p><p>• October 2009, delivered a paper “Sikhism and Karma” at a workshop on Dharmic Traditions organized by the Uberoi Foundation, held in Florida.</p><p></p><p>• November 2009, delivered a paper at the AAR Annual Meeting in Montreal entitled “Infecting Democracy”.</p><p></p><p>• May 2010, delivered an opening statement, followed by an academic paper “Aesthetics and Gurmat Sangeet” at a major conference on Sikh Music and Hermeneutics at Hofstra University, New York.</p><p></p><p>• May 2010, delivered a public keynote speech entitled “The Warrior Saint in the Sikh Tradition” to the Detroit Sikh Community at the 16th Annual Sikh Heritage Banquet, Burton Manor, organized by the Sikh Foundation, Inc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 130726, member: 35"] [COLOR=Blue]Forwarded by Tejwant Singh ji Malik[/COLOR] SIKH STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN September 2009-May 2010 Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Chair, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures In September 2006, Arvind Mandair joined the faculty of the University of Michigan’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures as the Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha and Gurbaksh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Assistant Professor of Sikh Studies. Professor Mandair came to Michigan from the Department of Religious Studies at Hofstra University, where he held the S.K.K. Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies. Having completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Warwick in 1998, Professor Mandair was, at the time of his appointment, the co-author of Teaching of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from Sikh Scriptures (Routledge, 2005) and the author of numerous articles in leading academic journals. CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP In November 2009, Professor Mandair’s first single-authored monograph, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Translation, was published by Columbia University Press. He is currently working on two new monographs: Mourning Sovereignty: Sikhism, Civil Society and the State, Communicating Ecstasy: Encounters Between Sikh and Western Thought, on comparative philosophy and religion. At the end of 2010 a major volume of new essays entitled Secularism and Religion-Making, co-edited by Professor Mandair, will be published by Oxford University Press (New York) in paperback and hardback. In 2009-2010, Mandair also published several articles including: “Sikhism for Healthcare Professionals” in a new book entitled World Religions For Healthcare Professionals (Routledge, 2009); “Translations of Violence: Revisiting Discourses of Sikh Ethnonationalism” in Secularism and Religion Making (Oxford University Press, 2010); “Modernity, Religion-Making and the Postsecular”, a major introduction to the volume Secularism and Religion-Making (Oxford University Press, 2010). 2 Professor Mandair is one of the founding editors of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, and Theory, a journal in its fifth year of publication, published by Routledge. This peer-reviewed journal is now based at the University of Michigan and will begin publishing three issues per year in 2011. Professor Mandair continues to serve on the Sikh Studies Consultation Group of the American Academy of Religion, a group which he helped establish in 2007. This group provides the first consistent representation of Sikh Studies in the largest scholarly organization dedicated to the academic study of religion. TEACHING AND GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING Courses Taught Fall 2009 Asian 305 Religion and Violence in a Secular World, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 34) Asian 480 Sikh Religion and Philosophy (graduate course with enrollment of 13) Asian 499 Independent Study in Advanced Punjabi Asian 699 Independent Study in Classical Punjabi (language of Sikh Scripture) Courses Taught Winter 2010 Asian 381 Postcolonial Theory, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 18) Asian 220 Introduction to Asian Religions, included content on Sikhism (enrollment 85) Asian 499 Independent Study in Advanced Punjabi Asian 699 Independent Study in Classical Punjabi (language of Sikh Scripture) Courses to be taught in 2010-2011 Asian 303 Warrior Saints: Introduction to Sikh Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity Asian 380 What is Religion? (Topics in Asian Studies) Graduate Student Advising Professor Mandair is currently on the advisory committees of five Ph.D. students in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and one student in the Department of Anthropology (Punnu Jaitla). Three of these students are working on topics directly related to Sikh and Punjab studies: Sikh Musical Traditions (Nirinjan Khalsa), Violence and Religion in Sikh History and Literature (Harjeet Grewal), Punjabi Linguistics (Punnu Jaitla). There are also several MA students based in the Center for South Asian Studies who are taking Sikh-related courses with Professor Mandair (Ranjanpreet Nagra and Sean Chauhan). The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures continues to attract more excellent Sikh Studies applicants to its graduate program than it is able to accept, due to funding constraints. Modern and Classical Punjabi The Sikh Studies endowment also supports the teaching of Punjabi language. Dr. Pinderjeet Gill, who joined the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in 2005, is instructor of modern Punjabi language. Modern Punjabi is currently taught on an alternating cycle. In one year, Dr. Gill teaches firstyear Punjabi, with the second-year course offered in the following academic year. The enrollments in the Punjabi language courses attract around ten to fifteen students each year. In 2009-2010 there were sixteen students enrolled in first-year Punjabi in the fall and thirteen students enrolled in the winter. As of July 26, 2010, ten students have signed up for second-year Punjabi for the 2010-2011 academic year. Classical Punjabi (the language of Sikh Scripture) is taught by Professor Mandair as an independent study. SERVICE During the period of May 2009 to May 2010 Professor Mandair delivered a total of eleven academic and public lectures and organized one conference: • November 30 to December 4 2009, delivered the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. This was a set of five public lectures focusing on Sikhism. For details of the lectures please click on the following link: [url]http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/[/url] • September 2009, organized and co-directed a two day conference at the University of California, Berkeley to mark twenty-five years after 1984. The conference was funded by Sikh communities in California and New Jersey. The conference, entitled “After 1984?” is now in the process of being published in the journal Sikh Formations (December 2010). • May 2009, delivered a paper on “Secularism and Political Violence” at a major workshop on Sikh Ethnonationalism held at the University of Birmingham (UK) and attended by the leading scholars working in this area. • October 2009, delivered a paper “Sikhism and Karma” at a workshop on Dharmic Traditions organized by the Uberoi Foundation, held in Florida. • November 2009, delivered a paper at the AAR Annual Meeting in Montreal entitled “Infecting Democracy”. • May 2010, delivered an opening statement, followed by an academic paper “Aesthetics and Gurmat Sangeet” at a major conference on Sikh Music and Hermeneutics at Hofstra University, New York. • May 2010, delivered a public keynote speech entitled “The Warrior Saint in the Sikh Tradition” to the Detroit Sikh Community at the 16th Annual Sikh Heritage Banquet, Burton Manor, organized by the Sikh Foundation, Inc. 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