Author: J. S. GrewalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Chiefly on the political scene; papers presented at various seminars held during 1995-1997.
Punjab in Prosperity and Violence
Author: J. S. GrewalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Chiefly on the political scene; papers presented at various seminars held during 1995-1997.
Different Types of History
Author: Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and CulturePublisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131718186
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Punjab Society
Author: Manmohan Singh GillPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180690389
Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Based On The Data Gathered From Field-Work And Secondary Sources, This Book Vividly Describes The Ground Realities Of An Agrarian Society Like That Of Punjab, Which Is Rapidly Transforming Itself In Terms Of Needs, Aspirations And Socio-Economic Perceptions Of The People.
The Sikhs of the Punjab
Author: J. S. GrewalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521637640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak, the development of his ideas by his successors and the growth of his following. The book offers a comprehensive statement on one of the largest and most important communities in India today.
Social History of Epidemics in the Colonial Punjab
Author: SashaPublisher: PartridgeIndia
ISBN: 1482836211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Since the earliest times, epidemics have broken out at regular intervals killing a large number of people. They have presented peculiar problems both to the state and to the society. The colonial India in general and the Punjab in particular were affected intermittently by epidemics. The Punjab was one of the worst affected provinces of the colonial India in which several lakhs of people fell prey to the deadly epidemics. Punjab was the wheat basket of the British empire and the leading recruitment centre for military service in British Indian army. Due to its strategic and military importance, the British handled the epidemics with great vigour. However, in their attempt to contain the epidemic, the British impinged on the privacy and religious susceptibilites of the natives. The present work discusses the role of the state in handling the epidemics and the response of the society to such measures. Sasha: The author is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Panjab University, Chandigah.She did her doctorate in the faculty of Arts under UGC fellowship from the Panjab University. She has to her credit several publications both in international and national journals on the issues of health, medicine and society in the colonial period.
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict
Author: Mallika KaurPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030246744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether. Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, who became a beloved “people’s judge”; and Inderjit Singh Jaijee, who returned to Punjab to document abuses even as other elites were fleeing. Together, they are credited with saving countless lives. Braiding oral histories, personal snapshots, and primary documents recovered from at-risk archives, Kaur shows that when entire conflicts are marginalized, we miss essential stories: stories of faith, feminist action, and the power of citizen-activists.
Region, Religion and Politics
Author: Amarjit S. NarangPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000783057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An objective and dispassionate study of the oldest religion based regional political party: the Shiromani Akali Dal, participating in the democratic politics and processes of socio-economic development and transformation of the country. It delineates and analyses events and developments from the emergence of the Akali Dal, as a religious movement, its transformation into a religious political party, concerned with safeguarding the political, social and economic interests of the Sikhs as a minority and to represent them in governing institutions, engaged in the struggle for power in secular domain mobilising the community support using the ideology of fusion of religion and politics, yet lacking equal support from different sections of the community. Rather than dwelling on a mere narrative of events and describing strategies, tactics and agitations of the Akalis an attempt has been made to understand why and how social and economic antagonisms arising out of generation and articulation of demands in a pluralistic society, undergoing modernization and democratization may be marked by identity politics. The study is located in the broader framework of rise and growth of regional parties and identity politics in India as a part and consequence of India’s adopted model of state and nation building, integration and socio-economic development and transformation.
Identity and Survival
Author: Kirpal DhillonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Drawing on his experiences in Punjab as director general of police from 3 July 1984—within weeks of Operation Blue Star—to 22 August 1985, Kirpal Dhillon writes about the phase of militancy in the state as not just a law and order problem but a question of Sikh nationalism, of a minority under threat. This is an insider’s view of the factors that bedeviled Punjab for close to two decades. Coming from a man who witnessed the drama first-hand and analyzed its historical causes, this book is a valuable addition to literature on the Sikh community’s darkest years—a phase that is not necessarily over.
The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies
Author: Pashaura SinghPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199699305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This handbook innovatively combines the ways in which scholars diverse fields (including philosophy, psychology, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics) have integrated the study of Sikhism within critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion.
Sharing the Sacred
Author: Anna BigelowPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195368231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The author looks at a place where the conditions for religious conflict are present, but active conflict is absent, focusing on a Muslim majority Punjab town (Malkerkotla) where both during the Partition and subsequently there has been no inter-religious violence.