Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of Punjab studies.
Chapters cover the history, politics, economics, culture, religion and society as well as the Punjab diaspora, and the Handbook is structured into six parts: Punjab, Partition and Beyond; Economic Development: Labour, Resources and Challenges; Political Contestations and Movements; Cultural Repositioning: Language, Literature and the Arts; Religion, Caste and Gender; and Diasporic Dilemmas. Topics explored include migration, memory, anti-colonialism, industrialisation, federalism, river water disputes, agriculture, ecology, communism, conflict, militancy, counter-insurgency, poetry, cinema, plays, music, theology, sexuality, inequality, tribal marginalisation, multiculturalism, diasporic homeland connections and gender-based violence.
Providing an interdisciplinary analysis by a set of international contributors, this Handbook will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the field of South Asian studies in general and Sikh and Punjab studies in particular.

List of Illustrations x
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
Notes on Contributors xvi
1 Introduction 1
PRITAM SINGH AND MEENA DHANDA
PART I
Punjab, Partition and Beyond 27
2 Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Present and Future for Punjab 29
PRITAM SINGH
3 From a Border Region to the Power Engine: Punjab as the Centrefold of the Pakistani State 41
IFTIKHAR MALIK
4 Partition and the Search for a Sikh State: From Azad Punjab to Punjabi Suba 50
TAN TAI YONG
5 Microhistory and Memory: A Pioneer's Life Story of Migration and Home 60
KARAMJIT SINGH
6 Memorialising Sikh and Punjab History in the Public Realm 68
RANVEER (RAV) SINGH
7 Hindutva in Punjab: Appropriation and Resistance 78
CHRISTINE MOLINER
8 The Anti-colonialism of Bhagat Singh 87
SATVINDER S. JUSS
PART II
Economic Development: Labour, Resources and Challenges 97
9 Prospects for Punjab's Economic Development 99
LAKHWINDER SINGH AND NIRVIKAR SINGH
10 Rural Commercial Capital in Punjab: Emergence, Disruption and Reconstitution 109
MUHAMMAD ALI JAN
11 Structure of Industrialisation in Punjab 118
VARINDER JAIN
12 Agro-Industrialisation in Indian Punjab: Rationale, Factors and Policy Options 127
SUKHPAL SINGH
13 Industrial Development and Labour Structure: Evidence from the Industrial Sector of Indian Punjab 137
JATINDER SINGH
14 Water Resources in Punjab: Status, Use and Challenges 153
RANJIT SINGH GHUMAN AND DEEPRATAN SINGH KHARA
15 Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab: Questions from an Ecological Justice Perspective 164
NADIA SINGH
16 Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of the Changed Cropping Pattern Arising from the Green Revolution Policy in Punjab: 1966-67 to 2020-21 174
RAJ MANN
PART III
Political Contestations and Movements 193
17 Communist Movement in Punjab 195
BHAGWAN JOSH
18 Dynamics of Coexistence of Competing Identities in Punjab Politics 204
PRAMOD KUMAR
19 Trolley Times in Farmers' Protest and Beyond 218
JASDEEP SINGH
20 Subaltern Religious Movements in the Punjab 232
MARK JUERGENSMEYER AND SANTOSH K. SINGH
21 Sikh Militancy 241
RADHIKA CHOPRA
22 Living the Past in the Digital Present: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 and Mediated Memory 249
SHRUTI DEVGAN
23 From Suppression to Service: Ethnicity and Counter-insurgency in the Punjab Conflict 259
DIPIN KAUR
PART IV
Cultural Repositioning: Language, Literature and the Arts 269
24 Punjabi as an Anti-establishment Language in Pakistan 271
TARIQ RAHMAN
25 Beyond the Nation: Punjabi Language and Literature in India, Pakistan, and Beyond 280
ANNE MURPHY
26 Twentieth-Century Punjabi Literature: Key Signposts 289
AKSHAYA KUMAR
27 Print, Publication, and Punjabi Literary Periodicals 298
AMITOJ KAUR CHANDI
28 Fascinating Contours of Literary Creativity of Punjabi Dalits 309
RAJKUMAR HANS
29 Anticolonialism and Protest Poetry in Punjab 317
SARA KAZMI
30 Patriarchal Masculinity, Homosocial Intimacy, and Male Failure in Punjabi Cinema 327
HARJANT S. GILL
31 The Defiant Voices from the Margins: The Punjabi Plays of Lakht Pasha 340
QAISAR ABBAS
32 Listening to Nature and the Cosmos Through Gurbani 350
GURMINDER K. BHOGAL
PART V
Religion, Caste and Gender 359
33 Sikh Theology Through a Feminist Lens 361
NIKKY-GUNINDER KAUR SINGH
34 Gender, Sect, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Punjab 370
ANSHU MALHOTRA
35 Ideal Wives, Birth Control, and Sexuality in Pre-1947 Punjabi Literature 381
NIKITA ARORA
36 Social Inequalities in the Indian Punjab: Structures and Fluidities 390
SURINDER S. JODHKA
37 Christianity in Punjab and Punjabi Christians 400
ELEANOR NESBITT
38 Tribal Communities in Punjab: Past and Present 411
BIRINDER PAL SINGH
PART VI
Diasporic Dilemmas 421
39 The Quandary of Caste for Sikhs in the UK 423
MEENA DHANDA
40 Navigating Belonging: Sikhs' Understandings of the Multicultural Landscape in Britain 435
JASKIRAN KAUR BHOGAL
41 Decolonial Queer Politics of Punjabi Diasporas 444
SANDEEP BAKSHI
42 Punjabi Diaspora-Homeland Connections: Transnationalism, Transformation, and Significance 454
SHINDER S. THANDI
43 Precarity and Politization of Punjabi Diasporas 465
MICHAEL NIJHAWAN
44 Unpacking the White Gaze in Recent Diasporic Punjabi Women's Memoirs 474
POOJA MARWAHA AND KAVERI QURESHI
45 Gender-Based Violence in Diaspora Sikh Punjabi Communities 485
JAGBIR JHUTTI-JOHAL
Glossary 496
Index 501