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Vita   Norman Gerald Barrier. Updated October 2005

Education:

   Duke University , BA 1962. Sociology and History, magna cum laude.

   Duke University , MA , 1964. South Asia History

   Duke University , PhD  1966. South Asia History

 

Academic Appointments

    Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University . 1966-7

    Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1967-9

    Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1969-74

    Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia 1974-2003, retired

    Chairman, Department of History, University of Missouri, 1983-1986

    Middlebush Chair, History, l987-1990

    Middlebush Chair in Social Sciences, 1999-2003

    Professor Emeriti, History, 2003-

 

Publications:

 

    The Punjab Alienation of Land Bill of 1900. Duke U. 1968. 120p.

 

    The Punjab in 19the Century Tracts. Michigan State U. 1969 98pp

 

    The Punjab in Printed British Documents. U. Missouri Press, 1970. 140p

 

    The Sikhs and Their Literature. Manohar, 1970. 208p.

 

    Banned: Political Control and Controvesial Literature in British India, 1970-1947.

       U. Missouri Press, 1975, 375p. rev ed. Manohar, 1977. Current in press, rev. ed

       Manohar, 2005

 

    Punjab Past and Present. Co-ed. With Harbans Singh. Panjabi U. 1975. 400p.

 

    The Sikhs. Co-ed with Mark Juergensmsyer. Lancaster Miller, 1979. 235p.

 

    The Census of British India . Manohar, 1981. 225p.

 

    British Policy in Imperial India . Co-ed. With R.I. Crane. Heritage, 1982. 240p.

 

    Aspects of India . Co-edited with Margaret Case. American Inst. Of Indian

       Studies, Festscrift honoring Edward Dimock. 209p.

 

    The Sikh Diaspora. Manohar, 1989. 275p.

 

 

 The Transmission of Sikh Tradition and Culture. Co-ed. With Pashaura Singh.

     Manohar, 1996. 303p.

 

  Sikh Identity. Ed. With Pashaura Singh. Manohar,  1999. 330p.

     Includes my edited Keynote speech to the International Conf (45p.) and

     Essay on Fairfax Gurdwara Case (20p.)

 

  Sikhism and History. Co-ed with Pashaura Singh. Oxford UP, 2004. 215p.

 

 

Currently in Press or revision process

 

    Sikh Politics and Identity, 1893-2004. Collected essays, revised, with critical

       Introduction, Oxford U. Press. Currently working out which essays will be

       Included, size of volume. Est. pub. 2007.

 

    Punjab Politics and the Disturbances of 1907. Manohar, currently revising final

      Mss. Est. pub.20067

 

Articles and Chapters:  Over  40 in major volumes and journals, 1965-present.

     Most notable include the following:

 

   “The Punjab Disturbances of 1907,”  Modern Asian Studies, 1967. 30p.

 

   “The Arya Samaj and Congress Politics,”  Journal of Asian Studies, 27, 1968, 339-56.

      Recognized as the most important essay on modern South Asian History, 1941-71,

      Reprinted in the JAS Commemoration volumes, 1971.

 

   “The Punjab Government and Communal Politics, 1870-1908.” Journal of Asian  

      Studies, 1969. 25p.

 

    “Interpretations of Sikh History,” in Fauja Singh,ed. Sikh Historiography. Oriental,

       1978. 21p.

 

    “To Rule India : Coercion and Conciliation in India , 1914-1919.” In Ellinwood , India

      and World War One,” 32p.

 

     “Sikh Studies and the Study of History,” in Hawley, Sikh Studies and Contemporary

       Sikhism, SUNY, 1991. 32p.

 

     “Vernacular Publishing and Sikh Publishing Life in the Punjab ,” in Kenneth Jones,ed.

      Religious Controversy in British India . SUNY 1992. 26p.

 

     “The Singh Sabha Movement and the Sikh Renaissance,” in Baird, ed. Religion in

       Modern India , 1989. 42p.

 

      “The Singh Sabhas and the Evolution of Modern Sikhism,” in Biard, ed. Religious

       Movements in Contemporary India . OUP, 1994. 38p.

 

      “Tradition and Sikh Identity in the Modern World,” International Journal of Punjab

       Studies, 2, 1995. 15p.

 

      “Sikh Politics and Religion: The Bhasaur Singh Sabha,” in Banga, ed. Five

        Punjabi Centuries, 1997, 140-56.

 

      “Competing Visions of Sikh Religion and Politics: The Chief Khalsa Diwan and

       the Panch Khalsa Diwan,”  in South Asia , 2000. 29p.

 

      “Sikhs and the Law: A Century of Conflict over Identity and Authority,” in Baird,eds

       Religion and Law in Independent India . 2^nd ed. 2005. 34p.

 

       “Partition and l984 in Sikh Memory: The Sikh Cyber Community, Sikh Formations,        v. 2, pt. 1. 2006. pp. 33-56.

 

        “Tradition and History: Modern Communication and the Sikh Diaspora, in Tony Ballantyne, ed. Tradition and History: Textures of the Sikh Past ( Oxford UP, 2007). 34 pages.

 

       Several Conference papers are currently in press.

 

 

Work in Progress:

 

     Modern Sikhism: A Guide to Historiography and Bibliography, 1873-1947. app. 400p.

         Mss..

 

      Sikhism in the Modern World: Politics and Religion in the Chief Khalsa Diwan Era,

         1902-1922,”  app. 300p. mss.

 

Other recent professional activities:

 

     Consultant, Panel Participant, International Conference on Fundamentalism,

       U. of Chicago .

 

      Expert witness in three Sikh Gurdwara cases, and also in US Immigration

        And Naturalization cases involving Sikhs

 

 

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