Religious Studies: Sikhism and Punjabi

PRIMARY SOURCES

Internet Sacred Text Archive

• Index of Sikh Texts

ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES

Gateway to Sikhism

• Sikh Scriptures
• Punjab: History and Culture
• Sikh Organizations
• Glossary of Sikh Terms
• And more!

The Pluralism Project

Religion & Philosophy Collection

• Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Sikh Net

Sikhism

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200 Religion
201 Religious mythology & social theology
210 Philosophy & theory of religion
211 Concepts of God
290 Other religions
294 Religions of Indic origin
299 Religions not provided for elsewhere
305 Social groups
900 History & geography

The word “Punjab” is made up of two Persian words -Panj- and -Aab-. Panj means five and Aab means water. This name was probably given to this land possibly in an era when this region came into close contact with Persia. The Punjab was known as land of five rivers because of the five rivers that ran through it. They are Jhelum, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej and Chenab.

Punjab is bounded on the west by Pakistan, on the North by Jammu and Kashmir, on the north east by Himachal Pradesh and on the south by Haryana and Rajasthan. Physically, the state may be divided into two parts; sub-Shivalik Strip and Sutlej- Ghaggar Plain. The Sub Shivalik strip covers the upper portion of Ropar, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur districts. The Sutlej- Ghaggar plain embraces the other districts of the Punjab.

Punjabi civilization is one of the oldest on earth, with its distinguished language, culture, food, attire, script, folklore, people, etc. Punjabi langauge has its originating source in Sanskrit, i.e. the family of Indo-European group of langauges which includes Persian and Latin.