On Violence and The Sikhs with Professor Arvind Pal Singh Mandair

In this episode, we are joined by Professor

Arvind Pal Singh Mandair, who is a prolific author, a philosopher by training, and a Professor of Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan.

Arvind has recently released a book titled, “Violence and the Sikhs” which is published by Cambridge University Press as part a larger series that examines religion

and violence.

In this conversation, we discuss the motivation behind

professor Mandair’s writings on the philosophy of violence in Sikhi, how it isunderstood as modern and premodern conceptions of violence, and finally inclosing, how we try to understand Sikhi and Violence with regards to recent

events in relation to sikh resistance movements in Punjab and in the diaspora.