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Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
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English
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2006
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A bold historical reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first.
Author / Editor information
Tony Ballantyne is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire and a coeditor of Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, also published by Duke University Press.
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“Between Colonialism and Diaspora is a major new work on Sikh history and culture. Tony Ballantyne has framed historical events and personalities within the broad context of transformations emerging from colonial rule. His treatment of Sikh memory and the past is provocative, and the final section on bhangra explores the broad implications of how a distinctly Punjabi cultural tradition has changed and in turn influenced international dance and music.”—N. Gerald Barrier, coeditor of Sikhism and History
“Moving between the Punjab and Britain, Australia, and the United States, Between Colonialism and Diaspora tracks moments in the making of Sikh identities across imperial and postcolonial encounters, from military masculinities to bhangra, from the 1840s to the present. Tony Ballantyne is establishing himself as one of the most exciting voices amongst a new generation of historians.”—Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867
“[A]n important addition to the growing literature on the construction of Sikh identity during the past two centuries. Unlike many writers, Ballantyne does not confine his analysis to either the colonial or the contemporary era but rather sees common threads running between them. . . . The result is a broader and more innovative understanding of Sikh cultural formations than is present in many standard accounts. . . . [A] bold and lively work.”
-- Ian Talbot American Historical Review
“One of the many strengths of the book is its wider application for imperial history; Sikh, diaspora, and gender studies; and transnationalism and postcolonialism. . . . The structure of the book is clear and accessible, topped and tailed with explanatory chapters that both frame the main themes and clarify the arguments made in the four main chapters or overlapping essays. . . . [I]ts real contribution lies in adding to and developing the comparatively limited historical scholarship on empire and mobility.”
-- Shompa Lahiri Victorian Studies
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Preface
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1 Framing/Reframing Sikh Histories
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2 Entangled Pasts Colonialism, Mobility, and the Systematization of Sikhism
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3 Maharaja Dalip Singh, Memory, and the Negotiation of Sikh Identity
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4 Displacement, Diaspora, and Difference in the Making of Bhangra
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Index
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August 16, 2006
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9780822388111
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248
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4 b&w photographs, 1 map
