Beyond Punjab

Sikhs in East and Northeast India

Himadri Banerjee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2024
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-38983-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur to understand the Indian Sikhs through the lens of their dispersal to the plains and hills far from Punjab. Drawing on robust historical and ethnographic sources such as official documents, media accounts, memoirs, and reports produced by local Sikh institutions, the author studies the social composition of the immigrants and surveys the extent of their success in retaining their community identity and recreating their memories of home at their new locations. He uses a nuanced notion of the internal diaspora to look at the complex relationships between home, host, and community.

As an important addition to the study of Sikhism, this book fills a significant gap and widens the frontiers of Sikh studies. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, history, migration and diaspora studies, religion, especially Sikh studies, cultural studies, as well as the Sikh diaspora worldwide.

Himadri Banerjee, formerly Guru Nanak Professor of Indian History, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Chapter 1: Bihar

Chapter 2: Odisha

Chapter 3: Kolkata

Chapter 4: Assam

Chapter 5: Shillong

Chapter 6: Manipur

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-38983-4 / 1032389834
ISBN-13	978-1-032-38983-7 / 9781032389837
Zustand	Neuware