Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams : : Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs / / Nicola Mooney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mooney, Nicola,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which contemporary notions of identity are developed. She contextualizes these elements of Jat Sikh modernity against local, regional, and national histories of cultural and political differentiation, perceptions of marginality, and the expression of increasingly exclusive notions and practices of identity. This unique ethnography incorporates first-hand observations and local narratives to develop insights into the traditions and social memory of Jat Sikhs, as well as on the issues of urban and transnational social transformation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Identity Terms -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: Jat Sikh Locations and the Bahu Ethnographer -- 2. Farming, Family, and Faith: Elements of Jat Sikh Identity -- 3. Good Families: Marriage, Gender, and Middle-Class Jat Community -- 4. Good Fortunes: Education, Class, and National Contingencies -- 5. Unities and Schisms in Jat Sikh Identity -- 6. The Rural Imaginary -- 7. A Wedding Phulkari and Other Gifts -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index