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Militant and migrant : the politics and social history of Punjab / Radhika Chopra.
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Chopra, Radhika
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English
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New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
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xviii, 150 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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DS485.P87 C57 2011
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Sikh diaspora
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Punjab (India)
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Emigration and immigration
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Punjab (India)
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Punjab (India)
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Politics and government
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20th century
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Summary note
This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall and a Doaba village form the terrain for this -- three sites that can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic boundaries, and form the structure of this book. Relations between the rural, the sacred and the transnational, fostered through migration, marriage and material exchange, existed well before 1984. After 1984, however, and through the violent decades of the militancy period, these three locations became connected via the circulation of political ideologies, violent deaths, financial aid, a sense of disaffection, and the migration of men. Analysis of the linkages between transnational migration and religious revival is a key theme of this study. Conversely, the enhanced engagements of the diaspora with homeland politics became a source of support and created sanctuary spaces for political asylum seekers and transnational migrant labour. Re-analysing existing material and drawing on fieldwork-based interviews, as well as local history archives, the book presents a different framework to analyse the politics and social history of Punjab. -- Product Description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index.
Contents
Bringing a field to focus
Commemorating hurt
Risky strategies and family plans
Sent away boys
Transacting asylum
Descent to illegality.
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ISBN
9780415598002
0415598001
LCCN
2010317106
OCLC
644649666
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