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English: Photograph of Sikh women at Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple complex), 1906. Photographed by Herbert G. Ponting. New York State Archives. Source: G T 1588.
The Sikh Gurus and various Sikh saints did much to progress women's rights which were considerably downtrodden in the 15th century. To ensure a new equal status for women, [5] the Gurus [6] made no distinction between the sexes in matters of initiation, instruction or participation in sangat (holy fellowship) and pangat (eating together).
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Mai Bhago was born into Jat Family, [1] [2] her family's ancestral village of Chabal Kalan, in a sikh family at Jhabal Kalan, in the present-day Tarn Taran district of the Punjab. [3] Mai Bhago was a staunch Sikh by birth and had her upbringing in a devout Sikh family.
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For example, many of the freely available images of Sikhs online is of White Sikh women who converted to the 3HO sect of Sikhism. [6] These portrayals may be misleading as 3HO White Sikh women usually wear turbans but the vast majority of Punjabi Sikh women, whom constitute the vast majority of Sikh women, rarely wear turbans. [6]
Sikh artwork exists in many forms, such as miniature, oil, and watercolour paintings, murals, and wood carvings. The first Sikh artists were influenced by the Pahari and Mughal schools, however the ushering in of European influences during the colonial-age would transform Sikh art by adoping Western methods and tastes for artwork.
In The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (1993), Singh's first book, she sees value in women in Sikhism as reflected in feminine words such as Bani. [11] [12] In the same work she analysed the "mother" image depicted in Sikh writings, and described bridal jewellery as being empowering to women.