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A multidisciplinary volume with an exceptionally wide sweep has contributions covering polity, economy and society in the Mughal Punjab, economy, society and litersture under Sikh rule and political economy, agricultural growth, punjabi speaking state movement in post independent period.

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Author:   Indu Banga
Publisher:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9788173041754

ISBN 10:   817304175
Pages:   626
Publication Date:   15 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface; J S Grewal: The Historian; Polity, Economy & Society under the Mughals; Politics under the Later Mughals; Formation of the Sikh State, 1765-1845; Muslim Anjumans & Communitarian Consciousness; The Punjab Hindu Sabha & Communal Politics, 1906-1923; Sikh Politics & Religion: The Bhasaur Singh Sabha; The Ghadar Movement: A New Consciousness; Urban Society & Urban Politics: Lahore in 1919; Akalis & the Nationalist Politics; Movement for the Punjabi-Speaking State; Water Resources & Agricultural Landscape: Pre-Colonial Punjab; Agrarian Production & Distribution in the Late Eighteenth Century; Agrarian Society in Transition: Mid-Nineteenth Century; Land Revenue & Peasant Protection in Early British Punjab; Changes in Agrarian Society in the Late Nineteenth Century; Canal Colonization & Socio-Economic Change; Agricultural Development & Urbanization, 1921-1981; Polical Economy since Independence; Society in Punjabi Literature, 1750-1850; Pre-Colonial Agrarian Society: The Upper Bari Doab; Urban Revolution under Colonial Rule; Emergence of the Middle Classes & Forms of Political Articulation; The Sikh Community: Demography & Occupational Change, 1881-1931; Changing World of the Artisans, 1849-1947; Changing Gender Relationship among Hindus in Early British Punjab; Historical Dynamics of the Qissa; Political Change & Punjabi Literature in the Nineteenth Century; Religion & Art in the Punjab Hills: A Study in Relationship c. 1600-1850; On the Study of Pahari Painting; Glossary; Bibliography.

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Indu Banga, Professor Emerita, Panjab Un­iversity, Chandigarh, and formerly Professor of History, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, has authored/edited over fifteen books on agrarian, urban, institutional, social and cultural history of medieval and modern India and the undivided?Punjab.

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