Harjot Oberoi

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Harjot Oberoi is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia .

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Harjot Oberoi is an avowed Sikh .

In 1976 he received his Bachelor of Arts with honors from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi .

At the Center of Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University , he received a Master of Arts and Magister Philosophiae in Modern South Asian history . He wrote his master's thesis on Bhai Vir Singh.

In 1987 he was awarded the JG Crawford Prize for his dissertation at the Center for Asian Studies at the Australian National University .

In 1994 his book The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition was published . The book caused considerable controversy in Sikh science. Mohinder Singh Gosal, President of the Federation of Sikh Societies of Canada , even believed that Oberoi was part of an anti-Sikh conspiracy. Ultimately, this controversy led to Oberois being fired from the Chair of Sikh Studies.

Awards received

• JG Crawford Prize
• Best First Book, American Academy of Religions
• Killam Research Prize
• Killam Research Fellowship

Publications (selection)

• The construction of religious boundaries. Culture, Idendity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Translating History into Theory. In: Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra (eds.): Indian Political Theory. Routledge, 2009.
• Unpacking Lord Macaulay's Library. In: Biblio. Volume 13, 2008.
• What has a whale got to do with it? A tale of pogroms and biblical allegories. In: C. Shackle, G. Singh and A. Mandair (Eds.): Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Curzon, London 2001.

further reading

• Darshan Singh: Sikhism issues and institutiones. New Delhi 1996, pp. 71-90.

Web links

• Website at the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
• Criticism of Harjot Oberois publications
• The construction of Religious Boundaries. A review by Dr. SS Sodhi and Dr. JS man.
• Misconstruction of Religious Boundaries by Charnjit Singh Bal
• Chairs for Sikh Studies in America. Problems and Solutions
• Institute of Sikh Studies: Harjot Oberoi
• Literature by and about Harjot Oberoi in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Review of The construction of religious boundaries by SS Sodhi, and JS Mann ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. globalsikhstudies.net, accessed May 9, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Harjot Oberoi on the University of British Columbia website ( memento of the original from June 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. asia.ubc.ca, accessed May 9, 2014. 
3. ^ IJ Singh, Hakam Singh: Chairs for Sikh Studies in America. Problems and Solutions. ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sikhreview.org, accessed May 9, 2014. 
4. ↑ Report sikhinstitute.org, accessed on May 9, 2014.