02660nam 2200601Ia 450 991081349700332120200520144314.01-136-70435-30-203-81404-510.4324/9780203814048 (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)99267000000016393320110218d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMilitant and migrant the politics and social history of Punjab /Radhika Chopra1st ed.New Delhi Routledge20111 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 Radhika1664871MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813497003321Militant and migrant4023177UNINA