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Contents: CONTENTS: # Preface 7: 1. Cultural Milieu 9: (i) Introductory: (ii) Continuity of Indian Culture: 2. Rethinking Purposes of Human Life 31: (i) Introduction: (ii) Identity of the Self: 3. Sikhism: Continuity of Indian Culture 47: (i) Introductory: (ii) Guru Nanak’s Worldview: 4. Sikhism: Continuity of Indian Culture 67: (i) Introductory: (ii) What is culture? : (iii) Culture and Creativity : (iv) What is distancing and sannyasa?: (v) Meaning: Creativity: and Communication: (vi) Culture and Values: (vii) Uniqueness of Indian Culture: (viii) Solidarity with sacred tradition.: 5. Language Mirror of Culture 99: (i) Language and Creativity: (ii) Language is ‘House of Culture’: (iii) Culture and Reality:: (iv) Solidarity with Sacred tradition.: 6. Restoration of Historical Time 133: (i) Introductory: (ii) Creativity: Eternity and Time: 7. Reconciliation of Time and Eternity 155: (i) Bhakti to Shakti(ii) Passage from SachaKhanda to KhalsaPanth: (iii) The Akala Takht: Concretisation of Eternity: 8. ReligioCultural Ideology 183: (i) ReligioCultural Ideology: (ii) Sikhism: Continuity of the Epics’ Ideology: (a) Autonomous Action (Dharma): (b) Voluntarism and Karma Theory: (c) Sikh Moral Conduct (Rahit Maryada): (d) Panja Piare (Five Beloveds: 9. Sikhism Subaltern a Subaltern Movement 215: (i) Introductory: (ii) Critique of Otherworldliness: (iii) Personal Identity of Man: 10. Restoration of Woman’s Identity 237: (i) Ontogenetic Issue of Gender Disparity: (ii) Ontological Dimension: (a) Ontology of IdentityinDifference: (b) Genetic Dimension: (c) Spiritual Dimension: (iii) Social Dimension (Identity Crisis): (a) Suppression of Woman : (b) Feminine Identity Crisis: (c) Sex Roles and Functions : (d) Critique of Celibacy : (e) Sex and Genealogy : (f) Pardah (Veil) : (g) Remarriage and Sati: (h) Remarriage and Sati: (i) Restoration of Feminine Identity: 11. Contributions of Sikhism 275: (i) Sikhism : Harbinger of Indian Culture: (ii) Reinterpretation of Nonviolence (Ahins