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Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788173041235
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Punjab written by K. S. Singh and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study.
Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199406593
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed written by Ishtiaq Ahmed and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a definitive account of the partition of the Punjab in 1947. It chronicles how East and West Punjab were emptied of unwanted minorities. Besides shedding new light on the events through secret British reports, it contains poignant accounts by eyewitnesses, survivors and even participators in the carnage, from both sides of the border.
Author : Mallika Kaur
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030246744
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict written by Mallika Kaur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Rajit K. Mazumder
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178240596
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab written by Rajit K. Mazumder and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years. Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military men, police officers) constituted a miniscule minority of the Indian population. That a few thousand British men dominated so many million Indians for so long via native collaborators (feudal princes, educated babus, peasant recruits) has long been known. This book looks closely at the Indian army in order to show precisely how collaboration worked to sustain a national empire and a local economy. Show More Show Less.
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781791717797
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Punjab written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading British India ultimately covered some 54 percent of the landmass and 77 percent of the population. By the time the British began to contemplate a withdrawal from India, 565 princely states were officially recognized, in addition to thousands of zamindaris and jagirs, which were in effect feudal estates. The stature of each Princely State was defined by the number of guns fired in salute upon a ceremonial occasion honoring one or other of the princes. These ranged from nine-gun to twenty-one-gun salutes and, in a great many cases, no salute at all. The Princely States were reasonably evenly spread between ancient Muslim and Hindu dynasties, but bearing in mind the minority status of Muslims in India, Muslims were disproportionately represented. This tended to grant Muslims an equally disproportionate share of what power was devolved to local leaderships, and it positioned powerful Muslim leaders to exert a similarly unequal influence on British policy. It stands to reason, therefore, as India began the countdown to independence after World War II, that the Indian Muslim leadership would begin to express anxiety over the prospect of universal suffrage and majority rule. At less than 20 percent of the population, Indian Muslims would inevitably find themselves overwhelmed by the Hindu majority, and as the British prepared to divest themselves of India, ancient enmities between Hindu and Muslim, long papered over by the secular and remote government of Britain, began once again to surface. While the conflict between India and Pakistan is multi-faceted, there has always been great division over the Punjab. The word "Punjab" derives from the Persian words "Punj," meaning "five," and "äb," meaning river, combined into the "Land of the Five Rivers." These rivers are the five major tributaries of the River Indus - the Jehlum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej. They flow southwest off the southern slopes of the Himalayas, meeting the Arabian Sea just south of the modern Pakistani port city of Karachi. This is the valley of the Indus River, the site of some of the oldest and most accomplished civilizations in the world. The Punjab is defined by the floodplains of the five rivers that give the area its name, and as a result, it is one of the most fertile regions of South Asia. However, since the 1947 partition of India, the "Land of Five Rivers" is something of a misnomer, as the partition not only divided India but also the Punjab. The eastern part of Punjab remained a province of India, while the western section was ceded to the newly created Pakistan. As a contiguous region, the Punjab retains its essential character, but now the Indian state of Punjab has only two rivers, the Beas and the Sutlej, and the Pakistani province has the Jhelum, Chenab and Ravi. The Punjab: The History of the Punjabis and the Contested Region on the Border Between India and Pakistan looks at the region and the origins of the Punjabis, as well as how it became one of the most contested spots in the world. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Punjab like never before.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300233647
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Great Partition written by Yasmin Khan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Author : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117038
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations written by S. Irudaya Rajan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.
Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book People of India: Punjab written by K. S. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Condos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418317
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Insecurity State written by Mark Condos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
Author : Birinder Pal Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000699773
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Indigeneity and Occupational Change written by Birinder Pal Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the presence of the absent— the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores the occupational change across generations to prove their presence in the state before the Criminal Tribes Act was implemented in 1871. The archival reports reveal the atrocities unleashed by the colonial government on these people. The volume shows how the post-colonial government too has proved no different; it has done little to bring them into the mainstream society by not exploiting their traditional expertise or equipping them with modern skills. This book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology, social anthropology, social history, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies.
Author : Karen Leonard
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903646
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Making Ethnic Choices written by Karen Leonard and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.
Author : Kristin M. Bakke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300439
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles written by Kristin M. Bakke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one-size-fits-all decentralized fix to deeply divided and conflict-ridden states. One of the hotly debated policy prescriptions for states facing self-determination demands is some form of decentralized governance - including regional autonomy arrangements and federalism - which grants minority groups a degree of self-rule. Yet the track record of existing decentralized states suggests that these have widely divergent capacity to contain conflicts within their borders. Through in-depth case studies of Chechnya, Punjab and Québec, as well as a statistical cross-country analysis, this book argues that while policy, fiscal approach, and political decentralization can, indeed, be peace-preserving at times, the effects of these institutions are conditioned by traits of the societies they (are meant to) govern. Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but it may have just the opposite effect in a country or region with different ethnic and economic characteristics.
Author : Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard
Publisher : Hemkunt Press
ISBN 13 : 9788170103608
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book East of Indus written by Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard and published by Hemkunt Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gurprit Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Punjabi People written by Gurprit Singh and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Punjabis are talked about, the geographical area under consideration is the present Indian Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the West Punjab of Pakistan. The first batch of people to arrive in the sub-continent and in the Punjab region were OoA or Out of Africa people and this migration took place in around 50000-65000 BCE. Over the years, people came from the present-day areas of Iran in around 8000 BCE. Combining with the Out of Africa people, they made the genetic pool of the Indus Valley people. Next, People came from the steppes in 2000 BCE. These have been so far called the Aryans or of lighter color. The people got mixed for centuries or some thousands of years to produce the people of the so-called North Indian Ancestry (ANI). For several centuries Punjab was known as Taki or Tak Desa. During Vedic times, the then Punjab was inhabited by the following five tribes or Panchjanas:1)Anush 2) Purus 3) Bharats 4) Yadus and 5) Turvasus. Since the Indus Valley Civilization came to an end and the mixing with the steppes' people was over, there was a lull so far as mixing of the so-called extraneous elements into the Punjabi blood is concerned.Over the years Harappans, Indo-Aryans, Greeks, Persians, Scythians, Arabs, Turks, Mughals, Balochs have inhabited Punjab and has been influenced by various religions like the Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.These waves of migrations notwithstanding, Punjab has acted as a giant melting pot, assimilating people of various ethnicities and geographical areas who have been held together by some sort of a Punjabiness even though the name Punjab was yet to be coined for the geographical area we are talking about. Till the attack by Alexander in 326 BCE, not many attackers besides Darius came to India and the number of such people who possibly mixed with Indians and Punjabis of that period was far less. From 326 BCE till the end of Harsha, we find mixing in Punjab of various external races like Parthians, Scythians, Huns, Indo-Greeks etc. But the number of people mixing with Indians and those living in Punjab was pretty less. Much later, Mohammed Bin Qasim and the Syrians arrived in India in the 8th century CE, followed by Mahmud Ghaznavi and other Muslims like Iranians, Turanis, Turks, Afghans and Mughals. Even though some claims are made of the external genetic pool of the Punjabis, in general, it is accepted that the Punjabis are mostly from the local stock, at least for the last 2000 years, if not less.The Punjabi genetic pool comprises the locals and also of the attackers from various passes having different ethnicities, skin colours and religious practices whose goal was capturing the fertile plains and the seat of power which vacillated between Kabul, Punjab and Delhi.Since time immemorial, Punjabis have this Caste system often called a Biradari system has made the Punjabis inter-marry in their own religion and castes. Then there have been the hill tribes of Punjab like the Pashtuns. Various occupations/Castes in East and West Punjab have been discussed.A very detailed data analysis based on Religion, Classes and Castes has been attempted. The demographics of East Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Chandigarh based on the Indian Census of 2011 and the demographics of Pakistani/West Punjab as recorded in 2017 have been studied in detail and finally projected Demographics of Pre-Partition Punjab or the erstwhile Punjab province are arrived at as these would be in 2021.demographics of Pakistani/West Punjab as recorded in 2017 have been studied in detail and finally projected Demographics of Pre-Partition Punjab or the erstwhile Punjab province are arrived at as these would be in 2021.
Author : Neeti Nair
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061152
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Changing Homelands written by Neeti Nair and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Homelands offers a startling new perspective on what was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In this highly readable account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very late, stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region. In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for the partition of India. Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred partition and contributed to its adoption. Almost no one, however, foresaw the deaths and devastation that would follow in its wake. Though much has been written on the politics of the Muslim and Sikh communities in the Punjab, Nair is the first historian to focus on the Hindu minority, both before and long after the divide of 1947. She engages with politics in post-Partition India by drawing from oral histories that reveal the complex relationship between memory and history—a relationship that continues to inform politics between India and Pakistan.
Author : Urvashi Butalia
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324942
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Silence written by Urvashi Butalia and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Author : Manẓūr Iʻjāz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789694026237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Peoples History of Punjab written by Manẓūr Iʻjāz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
