Abinash Mahapatra

Reading Sikh Festivals and Daily Life: The Descriptive Accounts of Abinash Mahapatra

This course studies a small body of descriptive writing attributed to Abinash Mahapatra, including "An Account of Baisakhi" and related accounts of Sikh festivals and everyday life. Rather than treating these texts as theology, we read them as descriptive sources: eyewitness-style records of what people did, wore,…