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| Article Name : | | | SIKHISM AND THE MENACE OF FEMALE FETICIDE IN SIKH COMMUNITY | | Author Name : | | | Arvinder Singh | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-3451 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Guru Nanak's system is a whole-life system like Islam and Judaism, and takes an integrated view of the spiritual and empirical aspects of life. Consequently, it categorically rejects monasticism, asceticism and withdraws from life. It sanctions a householder's life with full social participation and social responsibility. Brotherhood of mankind and equality of men and women and of all castes are repeatedly emphasized in the divine hymns and the lives of the Sikh Gurus. It is a radical departure from the Hindu social ideology of Varna Ashram Dharma. From the beginning of Sikh tradition, women have held an important place. Sikh history holds stories of the many women who helped in many ways to shape the faith. Women have been active and central subjects in Sikh history and they are remembered in prayer and song along with their male counterparts. Until Guru Nanak's time women in Indian society had long played a subordinate role. The inferior status of women, however, did not fit into His vision of total equality for all people. | | Keywords : | | |
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