Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Pritam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panjabis (South Asian people)--Social conditions.

Panjabis (South Asian people).

Panjabis (South Asian people)--Social life and customs.

Punjab (Pakistan)--Social conditions.

Punjab (Pakistan).

Punjab (India)--Social conditions.

Punjab (India).

Punjab (Pakistan)--Politics and government.

Punjab (India)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of Punjab Studies. Chapters cover the history, politics, economics, culture, religion and society as well as the Punjab diaspora.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Part I Punjab, Partition and Beyond

2 Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Present and Future for Punjab

3 From a Border Region to the Power Engine: Punjab as the Centrefold of the Pakistani State

4 Partition and the Search for a Sikh State: From Azad Punjab to Punjabi Suba

5 Microhistory and Memory: A Pioneer's Life Story of Migration and Home

6 Memorialising Sikh and Punjab History in the Public Realm

7 Hindutva in Punjab: Appropriation and Resistance

8 The Anti-colonialism of Bhagat Singh

Part II Economic Development: Labour, Resources and Challenges

9 Prospects for Punjab's Economic Development

10 Rural Commercial Capital in Punjab: Emergence, Disruption and Reconstitution

11 Structure of Industrialisation in Punjab

12 Agro-Industrialisation in Indian Punjab: Rationale, Factors and Policy Options

13 Industrial Development and Labour Structure: Evidence from the Industrial Sector of Indian Punjab

14 Water Resources in Punjab: Status, Use and Challenges

15 Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab: Questions from an Ecological Justice Perspective

16 Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of the Changed Cropping Pattern Arising from the Green Revolution Policy in Punjab: 1966-67 to 2020-21

Part III Political Contestations and Movements

17 Communist Movement in Punjab

18 Dynamics of Coexistence of Competing Identities in Punjab Politics

19 Trolley Times in Farmers' Protest and Beyond

20 Subaltern Religious Movements in the Punjab

21 Sikh Militancy

22 Living the Past in the Digital Present: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 and Mediated Memory

23 From Suppression to Service: Ethnicity and Counter-insurgency in the Punjab Conflict.

Part IV Cultural Repositioning: Language, Literature and the Arts

24 Punjabi as an Anti-establishment Language in Pakistan

25 Beyond the Nation: Punjabi Language and Literature in India, Pakistan, and Beyond

26 Twentieth-Century Punjabi Literature: Key Signposts

27 Print, Publication, and Punjabi Literary Periodicals

28 Fascinating Contours of Literary Creativity of Punjabi Dalits

29 Anticolonialism and Protest Poetry in Punjab

30 Patriarchal Masculinity, Homosocial Intimacy, and Male Failure in Punjabi Cinema

31 The Defiant Voices from the Margins: The Punjabi Plays of Lakht Pasha

32 Listening to Nature and the Cosmos Through Gurbani

Part V Religion, Caste and Gender

33 Sikh Theology Through a Feminist Lens

34 Gender, Sect, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Punjab

35 Ideal Wives, Birth Control, and Sexuality in Pre-1947 Punjabi Literature

36 Social Inequalities in the Indian Punjab: Structures and Fluidities

37 Christianity in Punjab and Punjabi Christians

38 Tribal Communities in Punjab: Past and Present

Part VI Diasporic Dilemmas

39 The Quandary of Caste for Sikhs in the UK

40 Navigating Belonging: Sikhs' Understandings of the Multicultural Landscape in Britain

41 Decolonial Queer Politics of Punjabi Diasporas

42 Punjabi Diaspora-Homeland Connections: Transnationalism, Transformation, and Significance

43 Precarity and Politization of Punjabi Diasporas

44 Unpacking the White Gaze in Recent Diasporic Punjabi Women's Memoirs

45 Gender-Based Violence in Diaspora Sikh Punjabi Communities

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-069648-1

0-429-27758-X

1-04-047616-3

9780429277580

OCLC:

1565285372