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Punjab reconsidered : history, culture, and practice / edited by Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Panjabi.
- Punjab (India)--Civilization.
- Punjab (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lviii, 461 p.) : ill., maps.
- Other Title:
- Punjab reconsidered
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 4, 2012).
- ISBN:
- 9780199088775
- 0199088772
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