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Gora Sikhs of 3HO/Sikh Dharma claim entry into the Sikh Panth: Converts without precedent Gora Sikhs of 3HO/Sikh Dharma claim entry into the Sikh Panth: Converts without precedent
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Initial reactions to Gora Sikhs from Punjabi Sikhs in India Initial reactions to Gora Sikhs from Punjabi Sikhs in India
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Early interactions between Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs in North America Early interactions between Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs in North America
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Who is a Sikh? Ethnosociologies in collision Who is a Sikh? Ethnosociologies in collision
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Ideological convergence and contingent collaborations in the West Ideological convergence and contingent collaborations in the West
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The future of Punjabi Sikh and Gora Sikh relations The future of Punjabi Sikh and Gora Sikh relations
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Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs
Get accessVERNE A. DUSENBERY is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Global Studies Department at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Over the past four decades, he has conducted research with Sikh communities in North America, Southeast Asia, Australia, and India. His recent books include Sikhs at Large: Religion, Culture, and Politics in Global Perspective (OUP 2008), a collection of essays, and Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab: Global Giving for Local Good (OUP 2009), co-edited with Darshan S. Tatla.
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Published:01 July 2013
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Abstract
This article discusses the relationship between Punjabi Sikhs and Gora (‘white’) Sikhs as it has developed since the early 1970s, when a Punjabi Sikh immigrant, calling himself Yogi Bhajan, initiated an unprecedented conversion of young Americans and Canadians to Sikhism through his Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization (3H0) and Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere. It notes the varied responses by Punjabi Sikhs in India and the diaspora to Gora Sikh claims to Sikh orthopraxy, the substantive issues over what it means to be a Sikh that have divided the two groups at times, and the ideological convergences and contingent collaborations (particularly surrounding religious rights) that have recently begun to characterize the relationship, especially in the Western diaspora.
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