Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Glossary of Urdu and Punjabi -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Place, politics and social change in Punjab -- 2 Cultural repertoires of leadership and political engagements -- 3 Electoral gradients: leaders, supporters and electoral machines -- 4 Gradient of everyday problem-solving -- 5 Development gradient and distributive politics -- 6 Gradient of collective action and coalitions of contentious action