The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab Volume 2 Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Farina Mir
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"This is a pioneering study. Mir draws upon largely unfamiliar material and suggests new approaches to religio-cultural questions of great importance to South Asianists across a wide disciplinary spectrum."--Christopher Shackle, SOAS, University of London
"Mir makes creative use of archival and folkloric material to tell the history of a composite, modern, and gendered Punjabi self in colonial India that was sadly lost in the welter of partition politics and violence. The story of the legendary lovers Heer and Ranjha haunts her narrative like an artistic lament about a lost Punjabi self without in any way compromising the academic quality of her research and the rigor of her exposition. A very significant contribution to South Asian history."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago
"Farina Mir has given us an outstanding work of literary and cultural history. She skillfully unravels the many versions of the famous folk-tale about Hir and Ranjha to illuminate gender, class and community relations in Punjab. This book will compel historians to rethink the links between language, religion and power and to reconsider the contingencies of union and partition in late colonial India."--Sugata Bose, author of A Hundred Horizons
"Mir's archival work covers and foregrounds the breadth of the story-telling or qissa tradition, great and little, high and low, Sufi, Sikh and Hindu, showing its wide dissemination. Mir's findings are of immense significance, given the turbulent history of the region in post-independence India and the political turmoil today, particularly on the Pakistani side of the border. Panjabi seldom finds this kind of focus in cultural history."--Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley
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- Title The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab Volume 2
- Author Farina Mir
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 294
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, United States
- Date 2010-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780520262690 / 0520262697
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Panjabi literature - 19th century - History, Panjabi literature - 20th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009049413
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.420
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