The Sikh diaspora: the search for statehood / Darshan Singh Tatla
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TextPublication details: Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1999Description: xiv, 327 p.: maps; 23 cmISBN: 0295977159Subject(s): Sikhs -- Politics and government | Sikhs -- Ethnic identityDDC classification: 908.82946 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 908.82946 TAT/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P02308 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 285-307.
1 The Sikhs: the search for statehood
A sect, a community or a nation?
The making of Sikh ethnic consciousness
The colonial encounter
Under the postcolonial state
Search for statehood: the dilemma
Indian nationalism: perils of a nation-state
2 The Sikh diaspora: a history of settlement
The colonial era
The postcolonial era
Post-1984 emigration: Sikh refugees
Conclusion
3 The Sikh diaspora and the Punjab: dialectics of ethnic
linkages
Economic linkage
Social exchange
Religious tradition
Diaspora: a creative site?
4 The Sikh diaspora and the Punjab: political linkages
Early links
Post-1947 associations
Issues of mobilization
5 Demand for homeland: Sikhs in North America
Main organizations
Mobilization
6 Demand for homeland: Sikhs in Britain
Main organizations
Mobilization
7 Mediating between states: Sikh diplomacy and interstate
relations
Indian government and the Sikh diaspora
Indo-British relations and the Sikhs
Sikh diplomacy and Indo-us relations
Indo-Canadian relations and the Sikh lobby
International organizations
Conclusion
8 Call of homeland: models and reality (if ethnic mobilization
Parameters of mobilization
Discourse on the Sikh homeland
The impact of the critical event
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