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Based on papers written for seminar on 'decolonization' and 'contemporary history' of the Punjab, organized by the Institute of Punjab Studies which aims at promoting inter-disciplinary study of the political, economic, social and cultural life of the peoples of the north-west of India, this book should be of great interest to administrators, politicians and journalists as well as to social scientists and general readers. It gives useful insights into administration, politics, violence, demographic change, and the condition of the relatively unprivileged 'fragments' of the society in the region – women, dalits, labourers and village communities.

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Author:   J.S. Grewal ,  Indu Banga
Publisher:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9788119139668

ISBN 10:   8119139666
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   31 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 Administrative Space - Gopal Krishnan%Surya Kant 2 Punjab Administration at Work - P.H. Vaishnav 3 Nehru, Indira Gandhi and the Punjab - Tejwant S. Gill 4 The Punjab Congress - P.S. Verma 5 Sikh Identity, the Akalis and Khalistan - J. S. Grewal 6 A Decade of Violence, 1983-92 - K.S.Dhillon 7 Violence in Retrospect - Pramod Kumar 8 The Logic of Sikh Militancy - Birinder Pal Singh 9 Demographic Change - Gopal Krishan 10 Urbanisation Since Independence - Gopal Krishan 11 Partiarchal Structure and Violence Against Women - Rainuka Dagar 12 Dalits in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh - S.K. Gupta 13 Attached Labour in Haryana - Surinder S. Jodhka 14 The Village Community in Punjabi Novel J.S. Rahi%S.S. Khahra Contributors

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J.S. Grewal, Formerly Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Director and later Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, has published extensively on the historiography of medieval India and the Sikh and Punjab history. Some of his books by Manohar are Sikh Ideology, Polity and Social Order (2007); Recent Debates in Sikh Studies: An Assessment (2011); Historical Writings on the Sikhs: Western Enterprise and Indian Response (2012); and Guru Nanak: A New Path and a New Panth (forthcoming). His other recent publications include Master Tara Singh in Indian History (OUP, 2017) and Guru Gobind Singh: Master of the White Hawk (OUP, 2019). Indu Banga, Professor Emerita in History, Panjab University, Chandigarh, and formerly Professor of History, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, has authored/edited nearly 20 books on agrarian, urban, institutional, social, and cultural history of medieval and modern India and the Punjab. Her publications by Manohar include Five Punjabi Centuries (2000); The City in Indian History (2005); Ports and their Hinterlands, 1700-1950 (2019); and Agrarian System of the Sikhs: Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century (2019). Her other recent publica-tions are The Ghadar Movement (conjoint, Pbi University, 2013) and A Political Biography of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha, 1883-1942 (conjoint, OUP, 2018).

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