Punjab reconsidered : history, culture, and practice /
Addressing the notion of 'Punjabiyat', this text examines if there exists an 'idea of Punjab' or 'ideas of Punjab' that connects people from the region, now scattered across the globe.
| Uniform Title: | Punjab reconsidered (Online) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Punjab in history and historiography : an introduction / Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir
- Part I Literary cultures and language politics
- Punjabi Sufi poetry from Farid to Farid / Christopher Shackle
- Language, the nation, and symbolic capital : the case of Punjab / Alyssa Ayres
- Part II Texts, contexts, and religious identities
- The history of the Ẓafar-nāmah of Guru Gobind Singh / Louis E. Fenech
- An idea of religion : identity, difference, and comparison in the gurbilās / Anne Murphy
- Guru Nanak's life and legacy : an appraisal / Gurinder Singh Mann
- Part III Religious cultures : marginal, popular, controversial
- Brotherhood of the pure : the poetics and politics of cultural transgression / Harjot Oberoi
- Panths and piety in the nineteenth century : the Gulabdasis of Punjab / Anshu Malhotra
- Genre and devotion in Punjabi popular narratives : rethinking cultural and religious syncretism / Farina Mir
- Brave converts in the Arya Samaj : the case of Dharm Pal / C.S. Adcock
- Part IV Colonialism : rural and urban cultures
- Environmental history, biradari, and the making of Pakistani Punjab / David Gilmartin
- Being middle class in late colonial Punjab / Markus Daechsel
- Translating the public in colonial Punjab / William J. Glover
- Part V Cosmopolitanisms : historical and contemporary
- Bhagat Singh : a politics of death and hope / Simona Sawhney
- Post-partition pluralism : placing Islam in Indian Punjab / Anna Bigelow
- Migration, cultural legibility, and the politics of identity in the making of British Sikh communities / Tony Ballantyne.