"Routledge Handbook Of Punjab Studies | Asian Studies

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 counter-insurgency 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.|Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies | Asian Studies