a compelling counter-narrative to that which identified Sikhs solely as race with..

[GoodTaste]

(1) Does "counter-narrative" mean "inverse chronological"?
(2) Does " identified Sikhs solely as race with a shared history in India" mean "Sikhs alone, as a group of people, is the same to the shared history in India"?


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A number of scholars have concurred that Harbhajan Singh Khalsa's introduction of Sikh teachings into the West helped identify Sikhism as a world religion while at the same time creating a compelling
counter-narrative to that which identified Sikhs solely as race with a shared history in India.

Source:
9Sikh scholars' views on Singh's mission
Passage 4

[ChinaDan]

(1) Does "counter-narrative" mean "inverse chronological"?

No. See counternarrative

(2) Does " identified Sikhs solely as race with a shared history in India" mean "Sikhs alone, as a group of people, is the same to the shared history in India"?

I read that as meaning, "The only thing that identifies the Sikhs as a race is their shared history in India".

[GoesStation]

A number of scholars have concurred that Harbhajan Singh Khalsa's introduction of Sikh teachings into the West helped identify Sikhism as a world religion while at the same time creating a compelling
counter-narrative to that which identified Sikhs solely as a race with a shared history in India.

Note the indefinite article I added above. If it's absent from the original text, the text contains an error.