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