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... In Pakistan's Punjab Shahnaz Rouse This paper is part of a larger study that the author is conducting on the interaction between technology, social organization and clientelism' in a Punjabi village in Pakistan...

...Nighat Said Khan; Farida Shaheed; Yameema Mitha; Samina Rehman Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 1 (1989) Income Generation for Women: Lessons from the Field in Punjab Province, Pakistan* Nighat Said Khan Farida Shaheed Yameema...

... 2009 Reading the Texture of History and Memory in Early-Nineteenth-Century Punjab Purnima Dhavan n 1809 Sardar Ratan Singh Bhangu, the descendent of two important Khalsa warrior families, was appalled to learn that the East India Company’s agent at Ludhiana had...

...Sarah Gandee This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government...

...Anna Bigelow [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 For decades, the Muslim-majority town of Malerkotla, Punjab, has been emblematic of communal harmony—the place where everyone gets along, a so-called island of peace. As the author has argued previously...

...Rajbir Singh Judge Abstract Focusing on early twentieth-century Punjab, this article considers how situating the region into historical context circumscribes the literary by tying it to place, thereby creating a seamless economy of exchange. In contrast, noting the refusal of literary and artistic...

... that the trial set the stage for the creation of an official communism in India, which led to unbridgeable rifts within the leftist spectrum across India, and particularly in the Punjab. This essay then touches on how that was true for politics as a whole. Thus, the trial contributed to the sharpening...

...J. Daniel Elam This essay reads Lala Har Dayal’s Hints for Self-Culture (1934) in order to highlight how anticolonial agitator Lala Har Dayal imagines a history appropriate for a future anticolonial utopia. By simultaneously tracking Har Dayal’s “promiscuous afterlives” in Punjab in the 1930s...

...Farhana Ibrahim Abstract Studies on militarization and borders in South Asia often focus on zones of spectacular conflict, such as Kashmir, or partition violence in Punjab. This article examines the production of everyday policing in a zone of high surveillance that is not a conventional military...

...Figure 1. Garden sites proposed by the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab in 1851. Line drawing by the author. ...

...Biswapriya Sanyal Copyright 1983: Regents, University of California 1983 REFERENCES Aggarwal , C.P. , 1974 , “Green Revolution and Employment in Ludhiana, Punjab, India,” in Edgar, O.E. (ed.) Employment in Developing Nations , New York: Columbia University Press. Bhalla , G.S...

... in the Punjab, wished for Hindus to emulate Christians and Muslims in giving centrality to their sacred texts. His translation was based on the Persian Sirr-i akbar produced by the Mughal prince Dara Shukoh (d. 1659), who had claimed that the Upanishads held the key to the Quran's mysteries. How did...

... , H. 1936 . Wealth and Welfare of the Punjab Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press Chandra , B. 1980 “Colonialism, Stages of Colonialism and the Colonial State” Journal of Contemporary Asia , Vol. 10 , No. 3 , pp. 272 –285 Darling , M. L. 1925 The Punjab Peasant...

... called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in 1970, resulting in de facto land and tenancy reforms, and subsequently expanded to South Punjab, where it confronted some of Pakistan's largest and most notorious landlords. MKP-connected cadres also organized in key industrial areas in cities like Karachi, Faisalabad...