Pashaura Singh

Pashaura Singh is a religious studies scholar and a professor at the University of California, Riverside where he currently holds the Dr. Jasbir Singh Saini Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies.

Biography William Hewat McLeod meeting Pashaura Singh (then a granthi) in Calgary, Canada, 1987. The photograph from the collection of Amarjit Chandan. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Toronto under the supervision of W. H. McLeod – an influential scholar and historian of Sikhism. Singh pursued an academic career and joined the University of Michigan, where he edited and co-published two collections of Sikh studies. He later appeared before the Akal Takht, apologizing for any distress he may have caused, and offered to amend anything incorrect in his thesis, but nothing else. His apology and offer were accepted.

Works Pashaura Singh is considered a leading scholar of Sikh scriptures and literature.

The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000). The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib: Sikh Self-Definition and the Bhagat Bani (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003). Life and Work of Guru Arjan: History, Memory and Biography in the Sikh Tradition (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), 2006. Sikhism in Global Context (Oxford University Press, USA), 2012. The Transmission of Sikh Heritage in the Diaspora, co-editor with N. Gerald Barrier, (Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi) 1996. Sikh Identity: Continuity and Change, co-editor with N. Gerald Barrier, (Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi), 1999. Sikhism and History, Co-editor with N. Gerald Barrier, (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), 2004. The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, co-editor with Louis E. Fenech, (Oxford University Press, USA), 2014.