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JPS Contents Vol 1 to 22 Journal of Punjab Studies International Journal of Punjab Studies Volume 1 Number 1 January-June 1994 Contents Editorial Articles David Gilmartin Biraderi and Bureaucracy: The Politics of Muslim Kinship Solidarity in Twentieth Century Punjab Mufakharul Islam Punjab Agriculture during the Great Depression Lou Fenech Persian Sikh Scripture: The Ghazals of Bhā’ī Nand La’l Goyā Darshan Singh Tatla Minor Voices: The Evolution of the Punjabi Press in North America Ranjana Ash Amrita Pritams Writing: A Critical Appreciation Review Article Iftikhar H. Malik Understanding Punjab’s Political Economy: Imran Ali’s Interpretation Book Reviews Verne A. Dusenbery Kernial Singh Sandhu (1929-1992): An Appreciation Volume 1 Number 2 July-December 1994 Contents Articles Tan Tai Yong Prelude to Partition: Sikh Responses to the Demand for Pakistan, 1940-47 Pashaura Singh An Early Sikh Scriptural Tradition: The Guru Nanak Dev University Manuscript 1245 Holly Sims The Fatal Environment Revisited: A Tale of Two Punjabs Shinder Singh Thandi Strengthening Capitalist Agriculture: The Impact of Overseas Remittances in Rural Central Punjab in the 1970s Karen Leonard The Punjabi Pioneer Experience in America: Recognition or Denial? Book Reviews Volume 2 Number 1 January-June 1995 Contents Articles Sarah Ansari Punjabis in Sind-Identity and Power Yunas Samad Pakistan or Punjabistan: Crisis of National Identity Susan VanKoski Letters Home, 1915-16: Punjabi Soldiers reflect on War and Life in Europe and their Meanings for Home and Self Harold Lee John and Henry Lawrence and the Origins of Paternalist Rule in the Punjab, 1846-1858 Joyce Pettigrew Achieving a New Frontier: Rural Political Patterns and their Impact on the Sikh Independence Movement Review Article N. Gerard Barrier Tradition and Sikh Identity in the Modern World Book Reviews Volume 2 Number 2 July-December 1995 Contents Articles Colin Simmons & Participation in Rural Non-farm Salinder Supri Activity in India: A Case Study of Cultivating Households in Jalandhar District, Punjab Denis Matringe Punjabi Lyricism and Sikh Reformism: Bhāī Vīr Singh’s Poetry in the 1920s Itesh Sachdev Predicting Punjabi Linguistic Identity: From High to Low In-group Vitality Contexts Rohit Barot The Punjab Crisis and Bristol Indians Review Article Arvind-Pal Singh Interpreting the ‘Interpretive Process’: The Ambivalence of Tradition in the Representation of Sikh Culture Book Reviews Index for Volumes 1 and 2 Volume 3 Number 1 January-June 1996 Contents Articles C. Christine Fair Female Foeticide among Vancouver Sikhs: Recontextualising Sex Selection in the North American Diaspora Robin Rinehart Interpretations of the Poetry of Bullhe Shah Ian Talbot Back to the Future? The Punjab Unionist Model of Consociational Democracy for Contemporary India and Pakistan Review Article Subrata Mitra What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict? Book Reviews Volume 3 Number 2 July-December 1996 Contents Articles H.S. Sidhu Agricultural Development and Agro- industries in the Process of Industrialisation: A Case Study of Punjab (India) Kamlesh Mohan The Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy and its Impact as a Catalyst of Indian National Consciousness Jeevan Deol Acceptable Poetry: Muqbil’s Mystical Qiṣṣah Hīr Rānjhā Robert L. Hardgrave, An Early Portrayal of the Sikhs: Two Jr. Eighteenth Century Etchings by Baltazard Solvyns Review Article Gurharpal Singh What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict? (II) Book Reviews Volume 4 Number 1 January-June 1997 Contents Introduction Articles Tan Tai Yong ‘Sir Cyril Goes to India’: Partition, Boundary-Making and Disruptions in the Punjab Mohammad Waseem Partition, Migration and Assimilation: A Comparative Study of Pakistani Punjab Yunas Samad Reflections on Partition: Pakistan Perspective Shinder S. Thandi The Unidentical Punjab Twins: Some Explanations of Comparative Agricultural Performance since Partition Tejwant Singh Gill Punjabi Literature and the Partition of India Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj Partition and Diaspora: Memories and Identities of Punjabi Hindus in London Navtej K. Purewal Displaced Communities: Some Impacts of Partition on Poor Communities Book Reviews Volume 4 Number 2 July-December 1997 Contents Obituary Kenneth Jones by N. Gerald Barrier Articles L.P. Singh and B. Kaur Morphological and Physiological Changes in Response to Migration: Some Results of the Stufy of Punjabi Sikh’s Migration to the UK Furrukh Khan Of Victims and Villains: Representation of Muslims in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Chaman Nahal’s Azadi Eleanor Nesbitt ‘We are all equal’: Young British Punjabis’ and Gujaratis’ Perceptions of Caste Harold Staying on in 1846: The Ochestration of the Treaty of Bhyrowal Review Article Pritam Singh Marxism, Indian State and Punjab Book Reviews Index to Volumes 3 and 4 Volume 5 Number 1 January-June 1998 Contents Articles Iftikhar Malik Pluralism, Partition and Punjabisation Politics of Muslim Identity in the British Punjab Colin Simmons and The Determinants of Employment in Salinder Supri Rural Non-Farm Activities in India: The Experience of Own Account Enterprises in Jalandhar District, Punjab Rupinder Kaur Female Work Participation: Caste, Class and Gender Analysis in Rural Indian Punjab R.A. Geaves The Worship of Baba Balaknath Roger Hooker The Theme of Partition in Yashpal’s Novel Jhuta Sac (A False Truth) Book Reviews Volume 5 Number 2 July-December 1998 Contents Articles Nikky-Guninder Kaur Poetic Rhythm and Historical Singh Account: The Portrait of Guru Nanak through Bhai Gurdas Marie Gillespie ‘Being Cool and Classy’: Style Hierarchies in a London-Punjabi Peer Culture Ian Talbot From Pakistan to Punjabistan? Region, State and Nation Building Mohammad Waseem Democratisation in Pakistan: A Decade of Trials and Tribulations Marcella C. Sirhandi Allah Bux (1895 – 1978): A Lahore Painter of Punjabi Culture and Rural Life Book Reviews Volume 6 Number 1 January-June 1999 Contents Articles Dushhka H. Saiyid The Impact of Customary Law on Punjabi Muslim Women Sarah Ansari Pakistan, Partition and Gender: Fashioning the Shape of Pakistani Womanhood Ruhi Grover Ties that Double Bind: The Visibility of the Timber Contractor in Colonial north India Sukhpal Singh Green Revolution and Agro- Industrialisation: A Case Study of Primary Food Processing Industries in the Indian Punjab Pritam Singh Capital, State and Nation in India: Reflections with reference to Punjab Book Reviews Obituaries Volume 6 Number 2 July-December 1999 Contents Articles J. S. Grewal The Role of Ideas in Sikh History Pashaura Singh Formulation of the convention of Five K’s: A Focus on the Evolution the Khalsa Rahit Darshan Singh The Khalsa in Comparative Perspective Gurbhagat Singh Vaisakhi of 1699: Rupture of the Indian Grand Narratives Tony Ballantyne Resisting the ‘Boa Constrictor’ of Hinduism: The Khalsa and the Raj N. Gerald Barrier Controversy among North American Sikhs: Implications of Conflicting Views of Tradition and Powers for Scholarly Discourse Susan Strong and The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms Hajra Shaikh Pritam Singh Interrogating Identities Amidst (Review Article) Prosperity and Violence Book Reviews Volume 7 Number 1 January-June 2000 Contents Articles Ian Copland The Political Geography of Religious Conflict: Towards an explanation of the Relative Infrequency of Communal Riots in the Indian Princely States John Zavos Patterns of Organisation in Turn of the Century Hinduism: an examination with reference to Punjab Anne Murphy Allegories of difference and identity: The rhetoric of religious boundaries and ‘popular’ religion Sucha S Gill Agrarian Change and Struggle for Rural Labour in Indian Punjab Anne Vaugier- Strains on Punjab Governance: An Chetterjee Assessment of the Badal Government (1997-1999) Ranji Devadason Dowry Abuse in Britain: a culture- specific form of domestic violence Sissel Østberg Punjabi, Pakistani, Muslim and Norwegian? Self-perceptions and Social Boundaries among Pakistani Children in Oslo Conference Report Sikh Studies Conference Book Reviews Volume 7 Number 2 July-December 2000 Special Issue on Globalisation, Identity Politics and the Sikh Diaspora Contents Articles Georgio Shani The Territorialisation of Memory: Sikh Diasporic Nationalism and the Internation Order Laurent Gayer The Globalisation of Identity Politics: The Sikh Experience Sue Gunawardena Constructing Cybernationalism: Sikh Solidarity via the Internet Shinder S Thandi Vilayati Paisa: some reflections on the potential of diaspora finance in the socio-economic development of Punjab Raminder Kaur Dramas of Diaspora Darshan S Tatla Rural Roots of the Sikh Diaspora Parliamentary Debate Punjabi Community in Britain Book Reviews Volume 8 Number 1 January-June 2001 Contents Articles Nirvikar Singh Guru Nanak and the ‘Sants’: A Reappraisal Pnina Werbner Murids of the Saint: Migration, Diaspora and Redemptive Sociality in Sufi Regional and Global Cults Dick Kooiman Why Less Communalism in the Indian Princely States? A Discussion of their Unsecular Mode of Governance Sandeep Chohan and The religious dimension in the struggle Ron A Geaves for Khalistan and its roots in Sikh history Joy Barrow The Akhand Kirtani Jatha: a local study of the beliefs and practices of its members Surinder S. Jodhka Crisis, Crisis, Crisis… Rural indebtedness and Farmers’ Suicides in the Post-Green Revolution Punjab (India) Book Reviews Contents Volume 8 Number 2 July-December 2001 Contents Articles Rajit Mazumder Military Imperatives and the Expansion of Agriculture in Colonial Punjab Tariq Rahman The Learning of Punjabi by Punjabi
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