State formation and the establishment of non-Muslim hegemony : post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab / Rishi Singh.
Material type: TextDescription: 232 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9789351500759 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9351500756 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- Hegemony -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Power (Social sciences) -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Social change -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Sikhs -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Muslims -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Group identity -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Religion and politics -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Punjab (India) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- Punjab (India) -- Religion -- 19th century
- 954/.55031 23
- DS485.P87 R57 2015
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts | 954/.55031 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | SSLA-B-4178 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emergence of Sikh space and contesting religious identities -- Emergence of Sikh hegemony and its legitimacy over Muslim elites in 18th-century Punjab -- The process of change : from Muslim elites to non-Muslim elites in 19th-century Punjab -- State formation : the issue of legitimacy among Muslim subjects -- Appendices -- Glossary.
"This book examines the state formation process in Panjab and the qualitative change in the hegemony of elites from Muslims to non-Muslims in the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that after the emergence of the Sikh faith in the fifteenth century, there appeared on the social fabric of elites two distinct categories, the Muslim and the non-Muslim"--Provided by publisher.
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