Author: Anne Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199916276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of material representations of the Sikh past, showing how objects, as well as historical sites, and texts, have played a vital role in the production of the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social formation from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing together work in religious studies, postcolonial studies, and history, Murphy explores how 'relic' objects such as garments and weaponry have, like sites, played dramatically different roles across political and social contexts-signifiers of authority and even sovereignty in one; collected, revered, and displayed with religious significance in another-and are connected to a broader engagement with the representation of the past that is central to the formation of the Sikh community. By highlighting the connections between relic objects and historical sites, and how the status of sites changed in the colonial period, she also provides crucial insight into the circumstances that brought about the birth of a new territorial imagination of the Sikh past in the early twentieth century, rooted in existing precolonial historical imaginaries centered in place and object. The life of the object today and in the past, she suggests, provides unique insight into the formation of the Sikh community and the crucial role representations play in it.
Author: Sasha
Publisher: PartridgeIndia
ISBN: 1482836211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Since the earliest times, epidemics have broken out at regular intervals killing a large number of people. They have presented peculiar problems both to the state and to the society. The colonial India in general and the Punjab in particular were affected intermittently by epidemics. The Punjab was one of the worst affected provinces of the colonial India in which several lakhs of people fell prey to the deadly epidemics. Punjab was the wheat basket of the British empire and the leading recruitment centre for military service in British Indian army. Due to its strategic and military importance, the British handled the epidemics with great vigour. However, in their attempt to contain the epidemic, the British impinged on the privacy and religious susceptibilites of the natives. The present work discusses the role of the state in handling the epidemics and the response of the society to such measures. Sasha: The author is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Panjab University, Chandigah.She did her doctorate in the faculty of Arts under UGC fellowship from the Panjab University. She has to her credit several publications both in international and national journals on the issues of health, medicine and society in the colonial period.
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Category : Punjab (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Pakistan Historical Society
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Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1610
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Author: Bachan Singh Hira
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Study covers Amritsar and Gurdāspur districts of Punjab, India.
Author: Trilochan Singh
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Category : Sikhism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Author: Ganda Singh
Publisher: Patiala : Punjabi University
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Articles on Sikhism and the history of Punjab; festschrift honoring the Sikh historian Ganda Singh, b. 1901.
