02631oam 2200577I 450 991079017360332120230126205122.01-136-70435-30-203-81404-510.4324/9780203814048 (CKB)2670000000163933(EBL)692415(OCoLC)782859153(SSID)ssj0000623144(PQKBManifestationID)11425331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623144(PQKBWorkID)10648027(PQKB)10513541(MiAaPQ)EBC692415(Au-PeEL)EBL692415(CaPaEBR)ebr10542223(CaONFJC)MIL760913(OCoLC)784949377(EXLCZ)99267000000016393320180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMilitant and migrant the politics and social history of Punjab /Radhika ChopraNew Delhi [India] :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (173 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-59800-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Militant and Migrant; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Glossary; Acknowledgements; 1.Bringing a Field to Focus; 2.Commemorating Hurt; 3.Risky Strategies and Family Plans; 4.Sent Away Boys; 5.Transacting Asylum; 6.Descent to Illegality; Bibliography; About the Author; IndexThis book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall and a Doaba village form the terrain for this - three sites that can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic boundaries, and form the structure of this book. Relations between the rural, the sacred and the transnational, fostered through migration, marriage and material exchange, existed well befHistory, Modern20th centuryPunjab (India)Social conditions20th centuryPunjab (India)Politics and government20th centuryPunjab (India)Emigration and immigrationHistory, Modern304.80954552Chopra Radhika.1543280FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910790173603321Militant and migrant3796648UNINA