Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice

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Punjab in History and Historiography
	An Introduction
	Methodological Foundations
	Territoriality
	Language and Literary Cultures
	Colonialism in Punjab
	Religious Identities in Punjab
	Sikh Studies and Questions of Identity
	Conversion and the Politics of Difference
	Punjabiyat and the ‘Idea(s) of Punjab’
	Notes:
1. Punjabi Sufi Poetry from Farid to Farid
	Abstract and Keywords
	Punjabi Literary History
2. Language, the Nation, and Symbolic Capital
	Abstract and Keywords
	Recovering the Cultural Self
	The Hegemon’s Lost Self
	Historical Recovery: Local Literature and Stories from the Soil
	The Rise of the Popular Violent Punjabi Hero
	Theoretical Lessons from the Case of Punjab
	Notes:
3 The History of the Ẓafar-nāmah of Guru Gobind Singh
	Abstract and Keywords
	Ẓafar-nāmah, Ḥikāyats, and The Dasam Granth
	The Text of the Ẓafar-nāmah
	Authorship
	Internal Evidence
	The Historiography of the Ẓafar-nāmah
	Notes:
4.  An Idea of Religion
	Abstract and Keywords
	The Idea of Religion in the Colonial and Pre-colonial Periods
	Text and Context
	Imagining the Religious Self
	On Comparability and the Idea of Religion
	Notes:
5. Guru Nanak’s Life and Legacy
	Abstract and Keywords
	Examining Guru Nanak’s Beliefs
	The Founding of Kartarpur
	Notes:
6. Brotherhood of the Pure
	Abstract and Keywords
	In Pursuit of Holiness
	In Defence of Holiness
	Notes:
7. Panths and Piety in the Nineteenth Century
	Abstract and Keywords
	The Gulabdasis: Sources and Controversies
	Distinction and Sameness in Piro’s Writings
	Panths and Piety in the Nineteenth Century
	Theological Equivalences and Syncretistic Possibilities
	Sharā: Shared Ethics
	Notes:
8.  Genre and Devotion in Punjabi Popular Narratives
	Abstract and Keywords
	Syncretism Reconsidered
	The Perso-Islamic Foundations of the Qissa Tradition
	The Invocation in Persian and Punjabi Qisse
	Moving Beyond the Islamic Idiom
	Representations of Piety in Late Nineteenth-century Punjabi Qisse
	Notes:
9. Brave Converts in the Arya Samaj
	Abstract and Keywords
	Hindu Tolerance and Historiography
	Dharm Pal, Arya Samaj Controversialist
	Notes:
10. Environmental History, Biradari, and the Making of Pakistani Punjab
	Abstract and Keywords
	Biradari, the State, and Communalism in Twentieth-century Punjab
	Legacies for Pakistani Punjab
	Notes:
11. Being Middle Class in Late Colonial Punjab
	Abstract and Keywords
	What Makes the ‘Middle Class’ a ‘Class’?
	Colonial Agricultural Capitalism
	Urbanization and Service Patronage
	The Limits of the Patronage System
	Reformism and its Limits
	Middle-class Consumerism
	Being Middle Class in Late Colonial Punjab
	Notes:
12. Translating the Public in Colonial Punjab *
	Abstract and Keywords
	Notes:
13. Bhagat Singh
	Abstract and Keywords
	Lahore Now and Then
	Apne-ParĀye(One’s own/the other)
	Mit JĀne kĪ Hasrat (The Desire to be Erased)
	Hope in a World at War
	Notes:
14. Post-Partition Pluralism
	Abstract and Keywords
	Malerkotla: Ritual Integration
	Baba Farid Ganj-e Shakar: Narrative Exchange
	Sri Hargobindpur: Administrative Cooperation
	Pluralism, Secularism, and the Sacred
	Notes:
15. Migration, Cultural Legibility, and the Politics of Identity in the Making of British Sikh Communities
	Abstract and Keywords
	Notes:
Contributors