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Author: Reeta Grewal Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 510
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This Study In 2 Parts Begins With The Geographical And Cultural Perspectives On The Early Punjab, And The Migration And Settlement Of Jatts By The Seventeenth Century. The First Part Dwells On Different Aspects Of Socio-Cultural Life In Northwestern India In The Precolonial Times, Whereas The Second Part Brings Out Multi-Faceted Change In The Region Under The Colonial Rule. This Volume Breaks Fresh Ground In Regional History And Raises Some Significant Issues Of Historical Methodology And Interdisciplinary Approach.
Author: Reeta Grewal Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 510
Book Description
This Study In 2 Parts Begins With The Geographical And Cultural Perspectives On The Early Punjab, And The Migration And Settlement Of Jatts By The Seventeenth Century. The First Part Dwells On Different Aspects Of Socio-Cultural Life In Northwestern India In The Precolonial Times, Whereas The Second Part Brings Out Multi-Faceted Change In The Region Under The Colonial Rule. This Volume Breaks Fresh Ground In Regional History And Raises Some Significant Issues Of Historical Methodology And Interdisciplinary Approach.
Author: Reeta Grewal Publisher: Manohar Publishers ISBN: 9788173046193 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
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This book highlights the relationship between the processes of modernization and social change in the colonial situation in north-western India. Though interdisciplinary in orientation, this study remains embedded in the discipline of history. The pre-colonial background and the colonial context provide the setting for studying the new pattern of urbanization and new urban forms that emerged in the British Punjab. Demographic change due to urbanization, and reorientations in economic, cultural and administrative functions as well as political role of urban centres are brought into sharp focus. The significance and the limitations of self-government', with their socio-political ramifications are discussed as a framework for urban government. The close linkages of colonialism with urbanization are underscored in relation to the pan-Indian developments, which make this study relevant for the subcontinent as a whole, that is both India and Pakistan. Illustrated with maps and diagrams, and supported by statistical tables and appendices, this book would be of interest as much to historians and geographers as to the scholars in other social science disciplines. The civic administrators and planners would find this work equally useful.
Author: Farina Mir Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520947649 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 418
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This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patronage, the resilience of this popular genre came from its old but dynamic corpus of stories, their representations of place, and the moral sensibility that suffused them. Her multidisciplinary study reframes inquiry into cultural formations in late-colonial north India away from a focus on religious communal identities and nationalist politics and toward a widespread, ecumenical, and place-centered poetics of belonging in the region.
Author: Mustapha Kamal Pasha Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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A product of original fieldwork in the barani ("rain-fed") area of the Punjab--and featuring a detailed examination of generally under-utilized archival materials in Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan--this book analyzes the localized processes of colonial political economy.
Author: Ian Talbot Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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The volume examines a century of Punjabi Migration. This has been marked by both the massive upheaval of the 1947 partition and economic migration arising from agricultural and urban development within the Punjab and a tradition of overseas migration that dates back to the army recruitment of the colonial era.
Author: Radha Kapuria Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192867342 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan.
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521663601 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 430
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In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.
Author: Reeta Grewal
Author: Reeta Grewal
Author: Reeta Grewal
Author: Farina Mir
Author: Tahir Kamran
Author: B. B. Chaudhuri
Author: Farina Mir
Author: Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Author: Ian Talbot
Author: Radha Kapuria
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly