Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957)

Anshu Malhotra is a Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor and Chair of Sikh and Punjab Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Anne Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and holds the Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature, and Sikh Studies.

1 Introduction: Bhai Vir Singh as author, scholar, and reformist

Anshu Malhotra and Anne Murphy

2 Innovation in Punjabi Literature: Considerations on the Advent of Literary Modernity

Farina Mir

3 Print publics, literary experiments, and community formation in the work of Bhai Vir Singh Arti Minocha

4 The Conversion Loop: Gender, Identity, and Storytelling in Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundarī

Anshu Malhotra

5 Revisiting Khalsa Samachar (1899-1900): Women Issues and Concerns

Parneet Kaur Dhillon and Jaspal Kaur Dhanju

6 Didacticism and Punjabi Theatre: Bhai Vir Singh's experimental Raja Lakhdata Singh

Gunjeet Aurora

7 Beyond the Past: Poetry as a Notation the Present

Anne Murphy

8 Intertextuality and Reception History: Connecting Bhai Vir Singh’s Srī Kalgīdhar Camatkār to gurbilās literature

Julie Vig

9 Vir Singh’s Publication of the Gurpratāp Sūraj Granth

Jvala Singh

10 Bhai Vir Singh’s Puratan Janamsakhi: Sikh Book Culture and the Historical Turn

Harjeet Singh Grewal

11 Transcendence and the Modern Sikh Subject: Analyzing Bhai Vir Singh’s Theology Arvind-Pal S. Mandair

12 The manifold lives of Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundri

Doris R. Jakobsh