Swaran Singh Virk

The Kuka Movement in Punjabi Letters: Swaran Singh Virk's Literary History of Namdhari Reform

This course studies the nineteenth-century Kuka (Namdhari) movement of Punjab as it is reflected in Punjabi literature, and it examines Swaran Singh Virk's literary-historical survey of that body of writing in his study Kuka Lehar Da Panjabi Sahit ('The Punjabi Literature of the Kuka Movement'). The Namdhari…