GUINDAR KAUR, who had’ been studying comparative religion in the U.S.A. with Sikhism as her principal area of concentration, has brought her work to completion with a doctorate earned with distinction.
Born at Ferozepur, she was a student at St. Joseph’s Convent at Bathinda and Our Lady of Fatima Convent at Patiala before going to the U.S.A. in 1972 to finish school. From her school Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia she graduated into Wellesley College, the most prestigious women’s institution in the U.S.A. She did her B.A. there, winning Freshman Honors and Departmental Honors and passing out as a Durant scholar, having achieved the highest academic distinction.
She was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a society to which college students of the highest scholastic accomplishment and rank are admitted.
A paper she wrote for her B.A. course has been published in book form under the title of “Guru Granth Sahib: Its Physics and Metaphysics,” which has been very well received in scholarly circles in India and abroad and is studied as a text for courses on religion at some of the American universities.
From Wellesely, Guninder Kaur went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she took her Master’s degree. For her Ph.D. dissertation her topic was “The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent”.
She has now been selected from among 79 candidates for the position of Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at the famous Colby College, at Waterville, Maine.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 7, 1987
