{"product_id":"punjabi-centuries-tracing-histories-of-punjab-9789354428043","title":"Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anshu Malhotra\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - South - India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historical and territorial space of Punjab has been politically and spatially unstable and changing, What Punjab means to different people also varies over time and context. Equally, what one holds dear about Punjab, the sense of ‘Punjabiyat\/Punjabiness’, is both emotionally and culturally complex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePunjabi Centuries \u003c\/em\u003ehighlights some critically important issues. Including India, Pakistan and the diaspora, the volume focuses on the crucial nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading up to the present. The chapters explore the cultural, social and economic continuities and changes across this time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthored by scholars from India, UK, USA and Canada, the chapters study diverse issues: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eeconomic transformations; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe politics of the Punjabi language; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003egender imaginations in Punjab and the construction of gender identities; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ediasporic journeys; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecultural changes in music, literature and religion; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ereligious and caste identities; and \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003echanges from the colonial period to the last three decades of the twentieth century, to our contemporary times. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616506306711,"sku":"9789354428043","price":1434.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789354428043.webp?v=1769294969","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/punjabi-centuries-tracing-histories-of-punjab-9789354428043","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}