By Radhika Chopra

ISBN-10: 0415598001

ISBN-13: 9780415598002

ISBN-10: 1138662801

ISBN-13: 9781138662803

This publication is a research of the modifications in Punjab created through biotechnological revolutions, fiscal restructuring, power migrations, and political upheaval within the late 20th century. The sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational cost of Southall and a Doaba village shape the terrain for this — 3 websites which may noticeable as metonymic areas of identification that go beyond geographic obstacles, and shape the constitution of this ebook.



Relations among the agricultural, the sacred and the transnational, fostered via migration, marriage and fabric alternate, existed good prior to 1984. After 1984, although, and during the violent many years of the militancy interval, those 3 destinations turned hooked up through the flow of political ideologies, violent deaths, monetary reduction, a feeling of disaffection, and the migration of guys. research of the linkages among transnational migration and spiritual revival is a key subject matter of this research.



Conversely, the improved engagements of the diaspora with fatherland politics grew to become a resource of help and created sanctuary areas for political asylum seekers and transnational migrant labour. Re-analysing current fabric and drawing on fieldwork-based interviews, in addition to neighborhood background records, the publication provides a unique framework to examine the politics and social background of Punjab.

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