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    Gurbani Sangit Parampara: Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge Systems
    (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023) Khalsa-Baker, Nirinjan Kaur
    This paper will discuss the Gurbani Sangit Parampara as an Indigenous Sikh knowledge system whose practices, pedagogies, and patterns have been passed down orally over centuries. Since it takes only one generation for intangible heritage to be forgotten, it will look at the ways in which its pedagogy and practice have been remembered, shared, embodied, and safeguarded to survive through socio-political turmoil, colonization, upheaval from homeland, religio-cultural marginalization, minoritization, and erasure. Through interviews with Sikh musician memory bearers, I will argue that the Gurbani Sangit Parampara trains responsible custodians to sustain “uncolonized” streams of Indigenous knowledge. As a scholar-practitioner, I explore the processes of remembering, recovering, and regenerating Sikh ecologies of knowledge, to understand the ways in which their spiritual-aesthetic symbiosis informs adaptation and sustainability of Sikh music, knowledge, and identity over time.
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    From Sovereignty to “Minority” and Back: Voicing Silenced Songs and Indigenous Knowledges of the Sikhs
    (Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2023) Khalsa-Baker, Nirinjan Kaur; Singh, Bhai Baldeep; Cassio, Francesca; Singh, Davindar
    Marginalized in the modern narrative of South Asian music as the expression of a religious 'minority,' the Sikh musical heritage represents a pre-colonial system of knowledge in danger of disappearing. This panel critically discusses the marginalization of the Sikhs from a sovereign tradition to a 'minority' culture, as a process that began in the colonial period and culminated in the 'Independence' era with the partition of Punjab between two modern nations, India and Pakistan. The impact of this shift is still felt today in visible and invisible ways. On the one hand, in the post-Partition era, the political turmoil and the neoliberal agricultural policies directly affected the Sikhs in their own land, causing massive waves of the diaspora from Punjab to anglophone countries and, more recently, to Southern Europe. On a deeper and invisible level, the nationalist cultural policies caused a systemic erasure of Sikh indigenous knowledges and voices that new generations of Sikhs in South Asia and in the diaspora often fail to recognize. The presenters examine the responses to these political, social, and cultural disruptions through different disciplinary approaches and case studies of resilience. This multivocal project aims to suggest the need for an interdisciplinary method to navigate the complex relationships between 'music' and the marginalization of religious groups, encouraging alternative ways to explore and give voice to silenced histories, practices, and knowledges from the Global South.