Beyond Punjab : Sikhs in East and Northeast India / Himadri Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banerjee, Himadri, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikhs--India.

Sikhs.

India.

Physical Description:

xvi, 185 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Sikhs in East and Northeast India

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur to understand the Indian Sikhs through the lens of their dispersal to the plains and hills far from Punjab. Drawing on robust historical and ethnographic sources such as official documents, media accounts, memoirs, and reports produced by local Sikh institutions, the author studies the social composition of the immigrants and surveys the extent of their success in retaining their community identity and recreating their memories of home at their new locations. He uses a nuanced notion of the internal diaspora to look at the complex relationships between home, host, and community. An important addition to the study of Sikhism, this book fills a significant gap and widens the frontiers of Sikh Studies. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, history, migration and diaspora studies, religion, especially Sikh studies, cultural studies, as well as the Sikh diaspora worldwide"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Banerjee, Himadri. Beyond Punjab

ISBN:

9781032356631

1032356634

9781032389837

1032389834

OCLC:

1330196578

Publisher Number:

99992599520