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Saved by the Saint: Refusing and Reversing Partition in Muslim North India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 435–464.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Anna Bigelow Abstract Although Punjab experienced serious violence during the 1947 partition, no one died in Malerkotla. This peace at partition is central to the collective identity of the town, founded in 1454 by a Sufi saint. Focusing on the power of the saint, his tomb shrine, and his...
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Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1272–1274.
Published: 01 November 2010
... rudimentary interest in the study of the Punjab has heard of Malerkotla, one of only two towns within the present-day state whose majority population is Muslim (the other being Qadian). Malerkotla's fame, based on its lack of religious and communal strife, is in one telling traced back to Nawab Sher Muhammad...
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Editorial Foreword
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 341–346.
Published: 01 May 2009
... a shrine coming to serve as the centerpiece of a “multireligious cult” that has meaning for residents and pilgrims of varying faiths and doctrinal affiliations. Most intriguing in her account is Bigelow's examination of the way in which this shrine has kept the Punjab town of Malerkotla largely free from...
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Wives, Widows, Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 319–321.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of Tamilnadu under colonial rule both echoes and contrasts with court evidence from princely and landed groups of North India such as Awadh and Punjab (see Rita Brara, “Kinship and the Political Order: The Afghan Sherwani Chiefs of Malerkotla (1454–1947),” Contributions to Indian Sociology 28, no. 2 [1994...
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Communalism in the Punjab: The Arya Samaj Contribution
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 28 (1): 39–54.
Published: 01 November 1968
... in the state of Malerkotla. The British responded to these acts with their own form of violence. Following the Malerkotla affair, 66 Namdharis were arrested and summarily blown from guns by the Deputy Commissioner of Ludhiana. Ram Singh was arrested and deported to Burma. Following this decisive action...
