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Monograph<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition<\/a><\/em> New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming: Decolonization and the Imagination of the Political: A History of Ideas, in Punjabi.\u00a0<\/em>Cambridge University Press. In production in summer 2026.<\/p>\n

Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore<\/a>, <\/em>by Zubair Ahmed, translated by Anne Murphy. Athabasca University Press, 2022. (Open Access)<\/p>\n

Co-authored\/Co-edited <\/strong><\/p>\n

D\u016bje P\u0101se to\u1e45 <\/a>(\u201cFrom the other Side\u201d): Arts Across the Border, from the two Punjabs.<\/em> Exhibition catalog and website, for exhibition at The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC, 28 May to September 7, 2021. Published by The Reach Gallery Museum, 2023.<\/p>\n

Edited\/Co-edited volumes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-editor, with Anshu Malhotra (University of California, Santa Barbara). Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Religious and literary modernities in Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Punjab.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>New York: Routledge, Critical Sikh Studies Series, 2023.<\/p>\n

Co-editor, with Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland).\u00a0<\/em>Partition and the Practice of Memory<\/a>. London: Palgrave UK, 2018. <\/em><\/p>\n

Editor, Time, History, and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2011). Includes work by: Aparna Balachandran (Delhi University), Varuni Bhatia (Michigan), Nicolas Dejenne (Sorbonne), Purnima Dhavan (University of Washington), James Hare (Columbia University), James Hegarty (Cardiff), Rajeev Kinra (Northwestern), Arvind-pal Singh Mandair (Michigan), Rastin Mehri (SOAS), Christian Novetzke (University of Washington), and Teena Purohit (Boston University), as well as my introductory essay.<\/p>\n

Journal Special Issue Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-editor, with Anne Castaing (CNRS, Paris) of two special issues of Nid\u0101n: International Journal for Indian Studies<\/em> entitled “Imagining Urbanity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia” Volume 10, Nos 1 & 2 (2025). https:\/\/hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/journals\/nidan\/issue\/view\/1645<\/a> & https:\/\/hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/journals\/nidan\/issue\/view\/1689\/233<\/a> Open Access.<\/p>\n

Co-editor, with Philipp Zehmisch (University of Heidelberg) of a special issue of the Journal of Asian Ethnology<\/em>, \u201cRethinking Regions: Locality and Circulation in South Asia.\u201d Volume 83, Issue 1 (2024). https:\/\/asianethnology.org\/volume\/83-1<\/a> Open Access.<\/p>\n

Co-editor of a special issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory<\/em> with Anshu Malhotra (University of California, Santa Barbara) entitled Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab, <\/em>16: 1-2 (2020) (DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17448727.2019.1674513<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Co-editor of a special issue of the\u00a0Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/em>\u00a028, 3 (2018) with Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington) entitled “From Outside the Persianate Center: Vernacular Views on \u0100lamg\u012br.” Contributors: Emilia Bachrach (Oberlin College), V\u00e9ronique Bouillier (EHESS, Paris), Allison Busch (Columbia), Monika Horstmann (Heidelberg), Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt), Cynthia Talbot (UT Austin), and the editors.<\/p>\n

Guest editor for issue of\u00a0Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory\u00a0<\/em>3, 2 (December 2007) 93-209 for issue, 93-109 for my introductory essay; topic: \u201cTime and history in South Asian Pasts.\u201d Contributors include: Purnima Dhavan (Washington), James Hare (Columbia University), Rajeev Kinra (Northwestern), Christian Novetzke (Washington), and Teena Purohit (Boston University). Essays from this issue were included, with the addition of others, in\u00a0Time, History, and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia\u00a0<\/em>(see above).<\/p>\n

Digital Humanities Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ji<\/em>\u0304<\/em>van Bol, <\/em>\u0a1c\u0a40\u0a35\u0a28 \u0a2c\u0a4b\u0a32, <\/em>\u062c\u06cc\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0648\u0644 \u2013 words fo<\/em>r<\/em> living<\/em>, in initial stages<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Murphy has collaborated recently with colleagues on a project that brings together image, spoken text, and the mediated word. The project is entitled Ji<\/em>\u0304<\/em>van Bol, <\/em>\u0a1c\u0a40\u0a35\u0a28 \u0a2c\u0a4b\u0a32, <\/em>\u062c\u06cc\u0648\u0646 \u0628\u0648\u0644 \u2013 words for living \u2013 <\/em>and is pursued in collaboration with filmmaker Nichola\u0301s Grandi (Argentina) and Dr. Asma Qadri and Dr. Naveeda Alam (Pakistan). The project consists of video-poems exploring the work of Punjabi writer and critic, Najm Hosain Syed: first experimentation along these lines is available at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F-ea-usy1-c\u00a0<\/a> This project is in a preliminary phase.<\/p>\n

\u201cModern Punjabi Language and Cultural Production,\u201d<\/a> 2013-2023<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Murphy has documented modern Punjabi textual production across national boundaries through oral history collection as well as traditional archival and textual inquiry, with interviews collected in India, Pakistan, the UK, and Canada; these are in part available at https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/modlit\/<\/a> (more interviews will be added). Originally, Dr. Murphy sought to understand the articulation of the secular in modern Punjabi literary circles; this was the focus of the project “Transnational modern Punjabi literature and the pursuit of the secular,” for which she received Canadian federal funding (through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the premiere federal granting agency in Canada), from 2013-6. Dr. Murphy then received major grant funding from the same agency for the larger project on progressive elements in Punjabi literature in India and Pakistan: \u201cWriting Punjabi across borders: The poetics and politics of a transnational language movement\u201d (CAD$285,000 total over five years, extended to six, 2017-22\/23). Her recent book manuscript emerged out of this research, and the \u201cPunjabi in BC<\/a>,\u201d project represents its extension in the Canadian context.<\/p>\n

\u201cPunjabi in BC<\/a>,\u201d 2019-2023,<\/span><\/p>\n

This project has involved the documentation of the oral histories of K-12 teachers, language advocates and activists, and writers involved in promoting and using the Punjabi language in British Columbia, Canada. With a generous grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation at UBC, Dr. Murphy pursued the project with Collaborators Sukhwant Hundal and Lovneet Aujla by hiring and training UBC undergraduates and recent graduates to undertake interviews and then edit them for release to the public. These interviews were released in 2020 and then over the course of the spring of 2023 over the Web, Facebook, and Instagram, and will be made available through UBC library and the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive, housed at the University of the Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaste in Canada<\/a>,\u201d 2020-2023. “The Elimination of Caste,” 2024-2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Murphy has also worked with Dr. Suraj Yengde (University of Pennsylvania), a public intellectual and scholar in Dalit Studies, to record the histories of Dalit Canadians, and of those who are engaged in anti-caste work: the project was funded with a SSHRC Partnership Engagement grant. The official launch of the project, and release of videos to the public, will take place at an event in conjunction with the Chetna Association of Canada, in October 2023.The project continues with the project entitled “The Elimination of Caste,” with co-PIs Dr. Suraj Yengde and Dr. Karun Karki (UBC) from 2024-2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigital humanities approaches to the study of Sikh tradition,\u201d 2017-8<\/span><\/p>\n

This project involved graduate students in the analysis of the Sikh scripture utilizing digitial humanities-enabled data analysis. It has resulted in one book chapter, and is being furthered with additional research in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Commonality: The ambivalence of religious belonging,\u201d for thematic issue entitled “Religious Ambivalences: The Constitutive Tensions Within Religion in Urban Space,” History of Religions 65, no. 2 (2025): <\/em>138-184. A pre-print version of this essay is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssessing Gurmukhi cultural production in the late early modern period in the field of \u2018Greater Advaita\u2019,\u201d Article for Conference Proceedings of the 14th<\/sup> International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India (ICEMLNI), 2022: Early Modern Literatures in North India: Current Research 2022-2024, <\/em>Hiroko Nagasaki, Monike Hortstmann, and Kiyokazu Okita, eds., 129-154. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. Published November 2025. https:\/\/hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/catalog\/book\/1553\/chapter\/22778<\/a> Open Access.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Politics of Possibility in the Commemoration of Trauma\u201d in Remembering the Past: Critical Perspectives <\/em>on the Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984, <\/em>edited by Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry, 97-113 (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2025).<\/p>\n

\u201cHeterarchical power relations in an early modern Punjabi Sufi literary work<\/a>,\u201d for open access \u201cReligion and Urbanity\u201d resource with the Max Weber Kolleg, Universit\u00e4t Erfurt, Germany. Open Access. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/urbrel.13901123<\/a>\u00a0 Published in August 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ambivalence of urbanity: The city as an open, and closed, space,\u201d in special July 2025 issue of Nid\u0101n: International Journal for Indian Studies<\/a><\/em>, co-edited by myself and Anne Castaing (CESAH-EHESS, Paris), \u201cImagining Urbanity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia,\u201d Nid\u0101n<\/em> 10, 1 (2025): 8-23 (2025).<\/a> Open Access. Introduction, co-authored with Anne Castaing, pages 3-7.<\/p>\n

\u201cSikh authorship in the modern Punjabi literary domain\u201d Encyclopedia of Sikhism, Volume 2<\/em> (Brill), 146-51. Published April 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocating a Punjabi classic: Regional and Linguistic Affinities in Waris Sh\u0101h’s H\u012br <\/em>(18th c.),\u201d<\/a> for special issue \u201cRethinking Regions: Locality and Circulation in South Asia,\u201d co-edited by myself and Philipp Zehmisch (University of Heidelberg). Journal of Asian Ethnology<\/em> 83, 1 (2024): 87-102. Open Access.<\/p>\n

\u201cRethinking Regions: Locality and Circulation in South Asia,\u201d<\/a> co-authored with Philipp Zehmisch, introduction to special issue \u201cRethinking Regions: Locality and Circulation in South Asia,\u201d co-edited by myself and Philipp Zehmisch (University of Heidelberg). Journal of Asian Ethnology<\/em> 83, 1 (2024): 3-15. Open Access.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgressive politics, gender & the Punjabi literary through the work of Dalip Kaur Tiwana,\u201d in Punjabi Centuries, <\/em>edited by Anshu Malhotra, 149-186. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cDead Man\u2019s Float,\u201d short story published in Grieving for Pigeons <\/em>(2022), republished by Read Alberta, <\/em>of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, <\/em>April 22, 2024. https:\/\/readalberta.ca\/articles\/sunday-shorts-grieving-for-pigeons\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Possibility of the Secular: Sikh Engagements with Modern Punjabi Literature,\u201d in The Sikh World<\/a>,<\/em> edited by Arvind Mandair and Pashaura Singh, 287-299. July 2023. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9780429455322<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWaliullah Is Lost,\u201d translation by Anne Murphy of a story of Zubair Ahmad, excerpted from Grieving for Pigeons <\/em>(2022), listed above, reprinted on Vancouver-based Rungh<\/em> online magazine, May 2023: https:\/\/rungh.org\/volume-10-number-1\/<\/a> [Accessed 23 May 2023].<\/p>\n

\u201cWar Outside the State: Religious Communities, Martiality, and State Formation in Early Modern South Asia\u201d in The Cambridge Companion on Religion and War<\/em>, edited by Margo Kitts (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108884075<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe emergence of the social in service of the Guru,\u201d in Religious Authority in South Asia: <\/em>Generating the Guru, <\/em>edited by Istv\u00e1n Keul (University of Bergen) and Srilata Raman (Toronto), 84-106. London\/New York: Routledge, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich urbanity? Secondary urban centres and their attendant religious formations,\u201d Religion and Urbanity Online,<\/em> J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke and Susanne Rau, eds. (Max Weber Kolleg, Universit\u00e4t Erfurt, Germany). De Gruyter, 2022. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/urbrel.11327907<\/a> <\/u>Open Access.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemembering Against Sentimentality: Partition’s Literary Shadows in the work of Najm Hosain Syed (b. 1936)\u201d <\/a> for special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, <\/em>edited by Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, Austin Texas, USA), Om Dwivedi (Auro University in Surat, India) and Tabish Khair\u00a0(Aarhus University, Denmark). 57, 3 (2022): 501-519.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219894221115907<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cModern Punjabi literature and the Spectre of Sectarian Histories\u201d for special issue of the\u00a0Cracow Indological Studies journal<\/em>, vol. 23:\u00a0History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing\/s<\/em>, co-edited by Piotr Borek and Monika Browarczyk. Vol. XXIII, 2 (2021): 91\u2013118.\u00a0Open Access.<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/ 10.12797\/CIS.23.2021.02.04<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSikhism.\u201d In The<\/em> Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion<\/em> (eds C. Taliaferro and S. Goetz). Wiley, 2021. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/9781119009924.eopr0367<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Territorialization of Sikh Pasts<\/a>.\u201d In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, <\/em>edited by Knut Jacobsen, 205-221. Routledge, 2021.<\/p>\n

Introduction, with Anshu Malhotra, to co-edited special journal issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory<\/em> entitled Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab, , <\/em>16: 1-2, 1-13 (DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17448727.2019.1674513<\/a>). Pre-publication, final full-text: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/74585<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRelics in the Sikh Tradition.\u201d In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Material Religion, <\/em>Vasudha Narayanan, ed., 356-371. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cGhair-Pu\u1e45j\u0101ba\u1e47<\/em>\u201d (\u201cNon-Punjabi\u201d), B\u0101r\u0101\u1e45 M\u0101\u1e45<\/em>, <\/em>Literary journal published in Lahore, Pakistan (Vol 2, 2020): 163-171. In Punjabi.<\/p>\n

“Encountering Difference and Identity in South Asian Religions” in Encountering the Other, <\/em>edited by Laura Duhan Kaplan and Harry Maier, 39-48. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2020.<\/p>\n

“Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: Individualization in early modern Punjab through Waris Shah’s H\u012br” <\/em>in Religious Individualisations: Historical and Comparative Perspectives<\/em>,\u00a0editors Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Parson and J\u00f6rg R\u00fcpke,\u00a0289-314. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. Open Access. https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/498381?rskey=qmtzPy&result=1<\/span><\/a> or ttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783110580853<\/a>). (Or, through cIRcle:\u00a0http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/74586<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Co-author with Churnjeet Mahn, Raghavendra Rao, Samia Singh, Ratika Singh, and Poonam Singh. \u201cRe-Curating a Literary Utopia: Creative Resistance in Preet Nagar,\u201d in Creativity and Resistance in a Hostile World, <\/em>Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse, and Ben Rogaly, eds, 181-210.<\/em> Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

“La rem\u00e9moration d’une pr\u00e9sence perdue : le spectre de la Partition dans les nouvelles de Zubair Ahmed, auteur lahori de langue panjabi” in Raconter La Partition: Litterature, Cinema, Arts Plastiques<\/em> (Telling the Partition: Literature, Cinema, Arts<\/em>) edited by Anne Castaing, 63-96. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2019. Translation of an expanded version of “Remembering a lost presence: The specter of Partition in the stories of Lahore-based Punjabi-language author Zubair Ahmed,” in Partition and the Practice of Memory <\/em>(2018) (see below).<\/p>\n

“Punjabi in the (late) Vernacular Millennium” in Early Modern India: literature and images, texts and languages<\/em>, edited by Maya Burger & Nadia Cattoni, 305-328. Heidelberg, Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, 2019. Open Access.\u00a0https:\/\/crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/xasia\/reader\/download\/387\/387-43-84778-1-10-20190502.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cConfiguring community in colonial and pre-colonial imaginaries: Insights from the Khalsa Darbar records,\u201d in Religious Interactions in Modern India, <\/em>Martin Fuchs and Vasudha Dalmia, eds, 165-187. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

“At a Sufi-Bhakti Crossroads: Gender and the politics of satire in early modern Punjabi Sufi literature,” in Archiv orient\u00e1ln\u00ed<\/em> (Journal of African and Asian Studies<\/em>) 86 (2018): 243-268. Open Access.\u00a0 http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/74587<\/a><\/p>\n

“Thinking Beyond Aurangzeb and the Mughal State in a Late Eighteenth-Century Punjabi Braj Source<\/a>.” In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, <\/em>Series 28, 3 (2018): 537-554. (Part of special issue edited by myself and Heidi Pauwels.)<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Outside the Persianate Centre: Vernacular Views on \u201c\u0100lamg\u012br,\u201d <\/a>with Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington), introduction to special issue in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, <\/em>Series 28, 3 (2018): 409-414.<\/p>\n

“Writing Punjabi Across Borders” <\/a>South Asian History and Culture <\/em>9, 1 (2018): 68-91.<\/p>\n

“Remembering a lost presence: The specter of Partition in the stories of Lahore-based Punjabi-language author Zubair Ahmed.” In Partition and the Practice of Memory, <\/em>231-254. London: Palgrave, 2018.<\/p>\n

(Co-author.) “A future from the past” by the South Asian Canadian Histories Association Founding Collective (Naveen Girn, Anne Murphy, Raghavendra Rao K.V., Milan Singh, Paneet Singh), in Reflections of Canada: Illuminating our Biggest Possibilities and Challenges at 150+ Years<\/em>, edited by Phillip Tortell and Margot Young, 151-160. Vancouver: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Utility of \u2018South Asia\u2019\u201d<\/a> In South Asian Review <\/em>38, 3 (2017): 91-98.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlacing Max Arthur Macauliffe in context(s): Sikh historiographical traditions and colonial forms of knowledge,\u201d for special issue of the Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions<\/em>,<\/em> 4 (2017): 58-73.https:\/\/jisasr.org\/current-issue-volume-4-2017\/<\/a>\u00a0 (Or cIRcle:\u00a0http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/74588<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Bajwa has nothing more to say.” Translation of a short story by Lahore-based Punjabi writer Zubair Ahmed, with Mr. Ahmed. In Pakistani Literature (Journal of the Pakistan Academy of Letters). <\/em>18, 1 (2015): 86-93.<\/p>\n

“A Millennial Sovereignty? Recent Works on Sikh Martial and Political Cultures in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” A review article of When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699\u20131799 <\/em>by Purnima Dhavan; The Sikh Zafar-namah of Guru Gobind Singh: A Discursive Blade in the Heart of the Mughal Empire<\/em> by Louis Fenech; Debating the Dasam Granth<\/em> by Robin Rinehart; Sikh Militancy in the Seventeenth Century: Religious Violence in Mughal and Early Modern India<\/em> by Hardip Singh Syan. In History of Religions<\/em>, 55, 1 (August 2015): 89-104.<\/p>\n

“Performing the Komagata Maru: Theatre and the Work of Memory.” In Studies in Canadian Literature <\/em>40, 1 (2015): 45-73.<\/p>\n

“Dead Man’s Float.” Translation of a short story by Lahore-based Punjabi writer Zubair Ahmed, with Mr. Ahmed. In South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts & Culture <\/em>7, 1 & 2 (Winter\/Spring 2015): 158-165.<\/p>\n

“The formation of the ethical Sikh subject in the era of British colonial reform,” revised and expanded version of essay published in 2013 conference proceedings (below). In Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory<\/em> 11, 1 (2015): 149-159.<\/p>\n

“Sikh Museuming.” In Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums<\/em>, edited by Bruce Sullivan (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), 49-64, 157.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe uses of the \u2018folk\u2019: Cultural Historical Practice and the Modernity of the Guga Tradition.\u201d In South Asian History and Culture <\/em>6, 4 (July 2015): 441-461. Reprinted as “Uses of the Folk: cultural historical practice and the Guga tradition” in Cultural Studies in India <\/em>edited by Rana Nayar, Pushpinder Syal and Akhsaya Kumar, 117-138. New York: Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n

“A Diasporic Temporality: New narrative writing from Punjabi-Canada.” In Towards a Diasporic Imagination of the Present: An eternal sense of homelessness<\/em>, edited by Tapati Bharadwaja, 9-30. Bangalore: Lies and Big Feet Press, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cDissent and Diversity in South Asia Religions.\u201d In The Management of Intramural Dissent on Core Beliefs <\/em>(Cambridge Univ. Press), edited by Simone Chambers & Peter Nosco, 158-185. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n

“The formation of the ethical Sikh subject in the era of British colonial reform,” in Conference Proceedings for `The Making of Modern Punjab: Education, Science and Social Change in Punjab c. 1850-c. 2000\u2019<\/em>, Panjab University (Chandigarh), October 24-26, 2013, pgs. 69-81.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefining the Religious and the Political: The Administration of Sikh Religious Sites in Colonial India and the Making of a Public Sphere.\u201d For special issue on \u201cSikhs in Public Space\u201d in Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory<\/em>. 9, 1 (2013): 51-62.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gurbilas<\/em> literature and the idea of \u2018religion\u2019.\u201d In Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice<\/em>, edited by Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir, 93-115. New York and New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarch 1849, Lahore.\u201d Short essay commissioned for “Beyond Britain” Forum in The Victorian Review<\/em> 36, 1 (2010): 21-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cObjects, ethics, and the gendering of Sikh memory.\u201d In Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/em> 4 (2009): 161-168. Part of an interdisciplinary forum on \u201cEarly Modern Women and Material Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Guru\u2019s Weapons.\u201d In The Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em> 77, 2 (June 2009): 1-30.<\/p>\n

\u201cModern Punjabi Literature in Vancouver: A Portrait.” \u00a0In Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory <\/em>4, 2 (December 2008): 157-175.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory in the Sikh Past.\u201d In History and Theory <\/em>46, 2 (October 2007): 345-365.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaterializing Sikh Pasts.\u201d In Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory <\/em>1, 2 (December 2005): 175-200.<\/p>\n

\u201cMobilizing seva<\/em> (Service): Modes of Sikh diasporic action.\u201d In South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions, <\/em>337-372, edited by Knut Axel Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar, 367-402 in online version. Leiden: Brill, 2004.<\/p>\n

Translations of selected poems of the 15th<\/sup> century saint Ravidas. In Untouchable Saints: An Indian Phenomenon<\/em>, 197-200, edited by Eleanor Zelliot and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. Delhi: Manohar, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monograph The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Forthcoming: Decolonization and the Imagination of the Political: A History of Ideas, in Punjabi.\u00a0Cambridge University Press. In production in summer 2026. Translation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12791,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1537","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1537\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}