Punjab Reconsidered History, Culture, and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198078013 ISBN 13: 9780198078012

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book considers the notion of 'Punjabiyat', and examines if there exists an 'idea of Punjab' or 'ideas of Punjab' that connects people from the region, now scattered across the globe. Deploying a variety of methodological and disciplinary techniques, the volume discusses changing contours and notions of territoriality, migrations, and diaspora; language and literary cultures; colonial experience; religious identities; Sikh studies and identity; cultural and religious syncretism; and middle class and urban spaces; conversion and politics of difference. Through a careful analyses of aspects of Punjabi social, cultural, political, and religious history, it explores areas like mentalities and social texts, symbols and cultural representations, elite and popular cultures, social codes and their performance and reception.

This book will interest scholars, students, and researchers of history, particularly modern India, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Dr Farina Mir is Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0198078013
• ISBN 13: 9780198078012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 461
• Editor: Malhotra Anshu, Mir Farina