Of Hostility and Irrelevance
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?
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Refusal as Method in Rajbir Singh Judge’s Prophetic Maharaja
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Refusal remains a potent idea across disciplinary silos, and the refusals in Judge’s book offer provocations that scholars will be contending with for some time.
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Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.
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Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition: India and the World
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
The material problems of Indian Punjab will not be solved by a Khalsa Raj. Political autonomy will do nothing by itself to shift Punjab’s economy out of a destructive and unsustainable trap of growing wheat and rice for India’s food security.
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The Limits of Critique and the Horizon of Gender Abolition in the Sikh Tradition
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere.
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The Mute Eloquence of Impossible Histories
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
There is room to embrace the ethics of the vision in this book while still historicizing profusely and even counter-historicizing.
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Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja
Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.
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