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Author Tatla, Darshan Singh, author

Title The Sikh diaspora : the search for statehood / Darshan Singh Tatla
Published New York ; Oxfordshire, England : Routledge, 2004
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Global diasporas
Global diasporas.
Contents ""Cover ""; ""The Sikh diaspora""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Foreword by the Series Editor ""; ""Preface ""; ""List of tables ""; ""Maps ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Theoretical issues""; ""Scope of the study""; ""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: Sikhdiplomacy 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 of ethnic mobilization""; ""Parameters of mobilization""; ""Discourse on the Sikh homeland""; ""The impact of the critical event""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Appendices""; ""Notes ""; ""Glossary and abbreviations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index ""
Notes ''Transferred to Digital Printing 2010''--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2014)
Subject Sikhs -- United States.
Sikhs -- India -- Social life and customs
Sikh diaspora.
Sikhs
Sikh diaspora
Sikhs -- Social life and customs
United States
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203055182
0203055187