Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of Punjab Studies.
Chapters cover the history, politics, economics, culture, religion and society as well as the Punjab diaspora, and the handbook is structured into six parts: Punjab, Partition and Beyond; Economic Development: Labour, Resources and Challenges; Political Contestations and Movements; Cultural Repositioning: Language, Literature and the Arts; Religion, Caste and Gender; and Diasporic Dilemmas. Topics explored include: migration, memory, anti-colonialism, industrialisation, federalism, river water disputes, agriculture, ecology, communism, conflict, militancy, counterinsurgency, poetry, cinema, plays, music, theology, sexuality, inequality, tribal marginalisation, multiculturalism, diasporic homeland connections, and gender-based violence.
Providing an interdisciplinary analysis by a set of international contributors, this handbook will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the field of South Asian Studies in general and Sikh and Punjab Studies in particular.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I - Punjab, Partition and Beyond 2. Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Present and Future for Punjab 3. From a Border Region to the Power Engine: Punjab as the Centrefold of the Pakistani State 4. Partition and the Search for a Sikh State: From Azad Punjab to Punjabi Suba 5. Microhistory and Memory: A Pioneer's Life Story of Migration and Home 6. Memorialising Sikh and Punjab History in the Public Realm 7. Hindutva in Punjab: Appropriation and Resistance 8. The Anti-Colonialism of Bhagat Singh Part II - Economic Development: Labour, Resources and Challenges 9. Prospects for Punjab's Economic Development 10. Rural Commercial Capital in Punjab: Emergence, Disruption and Reconstitution 11. Structure of Industrialisation in Punjab 12. Agro-Industrialisation in Indian Punjab: Rationale, Factors and Policy Options 13. Industrial Development and Labour Structure: Evidence from the Industrial Sector of Indian Punjab 14. Water Resources in Punjab: Status, Use and Challenges 15. Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab: Questions from an Ecological Justice Perspective 16. Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of the Changed Cropping Pattern Arising from the Green Revolution Policy in Punjab: 1966-67 to 2020-21 Part III - Political Contestations and Movements 17. Communist Movement in Punjab 18. Dynamics of Co-existence of Competing Identities in Punjab Politics 19. Trolley Times in Farmers' Protest and Beyond 20. Subaltern Religious Movements in the Punjab 21. Sikh Militancy 22. Living the Past in the Digital Present: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 and Mediated Memory 23. From Suppression to Service: Ethnicity and Counterinsurgency in the Punjab Conflict Part IV - Cultural Repositioning: Language, Literature and the Arts 24. Punjabi as an Anti-Establishment Language in Pakistan 25. Beyond the Nation: Punjabi Language and Literature in India, Pakistan, and Beyond 26. Twentieth Century Punjabi Literature: Key Signposts 27. Print, Publication, and Punjabi Literary Periodicals 28. Fascinating Contours of Literary Creativity of Punjabi Dalits 29. Anticolonialism and Protest Poetry in Panjab 30. Patriarchal Masculinity, Homosocial Intimacy, and Male Failure in Punjabi Cinema 31. The Defiant Voices from the Margins: The Punjabi Plays of Lakht Pasha 32. Listening to Nature and the Cosmos through Gurbani Part V - Religion, Caste and Gender 33. Sikh Theology Through a Feminist Lens 34. Gender, Sect and Society in Nineteenth Century Punjab 35. Ideal Wives, Birth Control, and Sexuality in Pre-1947 Punjabi Literature 36. Social Inequalities in the Indian Punjab: Structures and Fluidities 37. Christianity in Punjab and Punjabi Christians 38. Tribal Communities in Punjab: Past and Present Part VI - Diasporic Dilemmas 39. The Quandary of Caste for Sikhs in the UK 40. Navigating Belonging: Sikhs' Understandings of the Multicultural Landscape in Britain 41. Decolonial Queer Politics of Punjabi Diasporas 42. Punjabi Diaspora-Homeland Connections: Transnationalism, Transformation and Significance 43. Precarity and Politization of Punjabi Diasporas 44. Unpacking the White Gaze in Recent Diasporic Punjabi Women's Memoirs 45. Gender-Based Violence in Diaspora Sikh Punjabi Communities
