Louis E. Fenech
scholar of Punjab and Sikhism
Louis E. Fenech is a scholar specializing in Punjabi and Sikh studies. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 1995. He is associated with the University of Northern Iowa, where he works as a professor of South Asian and Sikh history. He has completed research on Sikh literature during the period of Guru Gobind Singh. His research has been to understand the role that Indic and Islamic cultures played in the history of the Sikhs and their society. He has also conducted research on the political environment during Guru Gobind Singh's guruship-period, vis-a-vis the Sikh relations with the Pahari states and Mughal Empire. An author of several books, he was the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Fenech has helped broaden the appeal of Sikh studies as a distinct field of academia.
Biography
Fenech is from a Maltese immigrant family and grew-up in the Canadian neighbourhood of Rexdale, Etobicoke (now in Toronto) in the 1960s–70s. His curiosity of Sikhs began when he witnessed a Sikh boy wearing a patka playing on his street.
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