Punjab reconsidered : history, culture, and practice /

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.

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Punjab reconsidered
Punjab in history and historiography : an introduction /
Literary cultures and language politics --
Punjabi Sufi poetry from Farid to Farid /
Language, the nation, and symbolic capital : the case of Punjab /
Texts, contexts, and religious identities --
The history of the Ẓafar-nāmah of Guru Gobind Singh /
An idea of religion : identity, difference, and comparison in the gurbilās /
Guru Nanak's life and legacy : an appraisal /
Religious cultures : marginal, popular, controversial --
Brotherhood of the pure : the poetics and politics of cultural transgression /
Panths and piety in the nineteenth century : the Gulabdasis of Punjab /
Genre and devotion in Punjabi popular narratives : rethinking cultural and religious syncretism /
Brave converts in the Arya Samaj : the case of Dharm Pal /
Colonialism : rural and urban cultures --
Environmental history, biradari, and the making of Pakistani Punjab /
Being middle class in late colonial Punjab /
Translating the public in colonial Punjab /
Cosmopolitanisms : historical and contemporary --
Bhagat Singh : a politics of death and hope /
Post-partition pluralism : placing Islam in Indian Punjab /
Migration, cultural legibility, and the politics of identity in the making of British Sikh communities /
Hauptverfasser:
Mir, Farina, Malhotra, Anshu
Weitere Verfasser:
Mir, Farina (MitwirkendeR), Malhotra, Anshu (MitwirkendeR)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (lviii, 461 p.) : ill., maps.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
ISBN:
9780199088775
0199088772
Schlagworte:
National characteristics, Panjabi.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
History & Archaeology
South Asia
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