CO-SPONSORSHIP: North American Hinduism Unit and Sikh Studies Unit
Sikh-Hindu Relations in the North America: Contexts and Conflicts
Migration and labor histories, racialization and anticolonial movements, legacies of Partition and 1984, diasporic clashes and interreligious violence—Sikh-Hindu relations in North America are shaped by many contexts and conflicts. The North American Hinduism Unit and the Sikh Studies Unit invite papers that draw on archival, literary, ethnographic, and/or interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Sikh-Hindu relations in North America. Topics might include:1) histories of migrant labor, racialization, immigration, and citizenship, 2) anticolonial movements, the Ghadar Party, Hindu-Sikh presence in California, 3) Sikh-Hindu religious practices, 4) impact of Partition (1947) and the 1984 Anti-Sikh violence on diasporic relations, 5) political formations and questions of sovereignty in the diaspora, 6) Sikh-Hindu inter-religious conflicts in North America.