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

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

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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...

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

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