| Description |
1 online resource (lviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Panjabi.
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Civilization
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National characteristics, Panjabi
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| SUBJECT |
Punjab (India) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
India -- Punjab
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malhotra, Anshu.
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Mir, Farina.
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Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
0199080984 |
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9780199080984 |
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