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This collection of papers is an attempt to situate the question of Punjab and Punjabis in the ongoing discourse on regional identity in a global perspective. Section I deals with pre-colonial Punjab. Section II examines issues of Punjabi identity in the early phase of globalization during the colonial period. Punjab in the new global context of post-colonialization, the emergence of new states and the partitioning of Punjab are covered in Section III. Section IV ...
This volume brings together an important collection of research findings relating to the past century of migration in the Punjab region. The period began with the movement of Sikh farmers from the central districts to the new canal colony development in the West Punjab. Punjabi recruitment in the Indian Army also established an early tradition of overseas migration. The upheaval of the 1947 partition sparked off massive migration across the new international ...