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Safar : Finding Home, History, and Culture Through Punjabi Food in the American West.

Bloomsbury Collections: TxT Only 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ghosh, Madhushree, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Panjabis (South Asian people)--Cultural assimilation.
Panjabis (South Asian people).
Panjabis (South Asian people)--Ethnic identity.
Panjabis (South Asian people)--Food.
Panjabis (South Asian people)--Social life and customs.
Panjabis (South Asian people)--California.
Punjab (India)--Social life and customs.
Punjab (India).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
System Details:
text file rdaft
Summary:
Blends memoir and history to explore the role of Punjabi food in fostering community and identity among South Asian refugees and immigrants.
Contents:
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
PART ONE: Why We Travel
1 Why We Travel and How This Happened
2 What Makes a Sikh?
3 The Safar, the Journey
PART TWO: The First Wave: Sheila, the Punjabi-Mexican Daughter of Pioneers
4 Brown Marriages and the Food They Created
5 A Lot of Laws
6 Sheila, Daughter of the First Wave
7 But What about the Japanese?
8 Sheila in Arizona
9 Sheila, the Indian
10 Sheila, the Student
11 Sheila, the Homemaker
12 Sheila, the Pie-Maker
13 Sheila, Now
PART THREE: The Second Wave: The Gurdwara, the Women
14 The Second Wave Women
15 The Twenty-Six: Who Built the Gurdwara?
16 Daughter of Second Wave Families
17 The Quietness of Those Who Leave
PART FOUR: In Between Immigration Waves: The Khalistan Story
18 Stockton Gurdwara: Of Religion, Revolution, and Community
19 The Bhindranwale Story: A Terrorist? A Saint?
20 Indira and the Sikh Genocide
21 Khalistan, the Idea: Now What?
PART FIVE: The Third Wave, Jassi, the Amritdhari, Ajit's Mother
22 Diwali and the Face of Punjabi Tandoor: Jassi
23 Jassi, Now
24 Jassi, the Third Wave Immigrant
PART SIX: On Truckers, Dhabas, and Those Who Changed Central Valley California, Uma Devi
25 Dhabas, a Love Story
26 The Sikh Age
27 The Third Wave, Now
PART SEVEN: The Safar, the Journey, and Now
28 And Now
29 London, Our People, and Our Safar
Notes
Index
About the Author.
ISBN:
9798765155776
9798765155752
9798765155769
OCLC:
1577547301

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