Punjab in Prosperity and Violence should be of great interest to administrators, politicians and journalists as well as to the social scientist and the general reader because it gives insights into administration, politics, violence, demographic change, and the condition of the relatively unprivileged sections of the society – women, dalits, labourers and village communities. Besides civil service and police, the contributors come from the disciplines of history, geography, political science, sociology and literature. As far as possible, we have retained the distinctive elements of styles in different disciplines.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Indu Banga
Indu Banga is Professor of History at the Punjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas of interest are the agrarian and urban history of medieval and modern India and the Punjab; and religious ideology and socio-political change in colonial Punjab. Major publications include Agrarian System of the Sikhs (1978); Civil and Military Affairs of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (conjoint 1987); The City in Indian History (ed. 1991); Ports, Port-Cities and their Hinterlands in India (1700-1950) (ed. 1992); Cultural Reorientation in Modern India (ed. Conjoint 1996); and Five Punjabi Centuries c. 1500-1990 (ed. 1997).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J S Grewal
Professor J.S. Grewal, a former Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study of Shimla and a former Vice-Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University at Amritsar, has written extensively on philosophy of history, medieval India, Sikh history, and history of the Punjab, and he has edited a large number of volumes. Among his numerous publications are Guru Nanak in History (1969); Muslim Rule in India: The Assessment of British Historians (1970); The Sikhs of the Punjab (1990); Historical Perspectives on Sikh Identity (1997); and Contesting Interpretations of the Sikh Tradition (1998).
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