Baba Sumer Singh

Baba Sumer Singh and the Devotional History of the Gurus: Reading 'Sri Gur Pad Prem Parkash'

This course studies Baba Sumer Singh, a nineteenth-century mahant (custodian) of Takht Sri Patna Sahib and a poet-scholar, and his devotional-historical writing about the Sikh Gurus. The central text is his poetic work 'Sri Gur Pad Prem Parkash' ('the loving light at the feet of the Guru'), a verse retelling of the…