Author: Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Publisher: Singh Brothers
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172053797
Description
Interaction between institutional religions of a time is a natural phenomenon, and this phenomenon makes possible the growth of religious pluralism and co-existence in any multi-religious society. But, when unique identity of a living institutional religion is challenged by another institutional religion, awakening of interest towards one’s unique identity, too, is a spontaneous response.
Sometimes such polemics prove to be a classic exposition of a religion. Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha’s important work Hum Hindu Nahin, was also an outcome of polemics prevailing in the religiously polarized and strife-torn society of the nineteenth century’s last decade.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
AN APPRECIATION
Necessary Statement from the Author
Preface (Punjabi Edition)
Preface to the fifth Edition (Punjabi Edition)
Invocation
Questions-Answers between Hindu and Sikh
Vedas, Simritis and Puranas
Caste and Varna
Avatars
Gods and Goddesses
Worship of Idols
Sandhya-Tarpan
Sutak-Patak-Puerperium
Chauka Kar-Sacred Square
Fasting
Mahurat-Omens
Pret Kirya, Shradha etc,-Rites for the dead
Mantras-Incantations
Yag and Homa
Rites and Symbols
CONCLUSION