Ishwar Dayal Gaur

Ishwar Dayal Gaur is Professor of History at the Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre, Department of Evening Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh. His research pertains to Panjab history, culture, folklore and literature. He has made several presentations on these subjects in national and international conferences, seminars, refresher courses and public forums. Recently (21 March 2016), he has delivered Sardar Mahan Singh Dhesi Annual Lecture at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar on Forgotten Makers of Panjab: Discovering Indigenous Paradigm of Patriatrchy: Exploring Medieval Punjab Through Hir Waris (2009), and as a poet, he has versified in Panjabi the cultural mosaic of undivided Panjab in two collections, Surmedani (1999) and Charkha Bole Sain Sain (2007). He has edited (in collaboration with Surinder Singh) two books entitled Sufism in Punjab: Mystics, Literature and Shrines (2009) and Popular Literature in Premodern Societies in South Asia (2008).