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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implicat

Museology --- museology --- Pakistan --- Museum techniques --- Museums --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Philosophy. --- Technique --- Lahore Museum (Pakistan) --- ʻAjāʼib Ghar Lāhaur (Pakistan) --- Central Museum, Lahore --- Lāhaur ʻAjāʼib Ghar --- Lahore. --- Panjab Central Museum, Lahore --- Panjab Museum, Lahore --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies

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Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience is a collection of essays offering new insights into the diverse experiences of Sikhs beyond the Punjab. Moving beyond migration history and global in their scope, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological approaches to engage with diaspora theory, agency, space, social relations, and aesthetics. Rich in substantive content, these essays offer critical reflections on the concept of diaspora, and insight into key features of Sikh experience including memory, citizenship, political engagement, architecture, multiculturalism, gender, literature, oral history, kirtan, economics, and marriage.

Sikh diaspora. --- Sikhs --- Sikhs à l'étranger --- Cultural assimilation --- Acculturation --- Punjab (India) --- Pendjab (Inde) --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration et immigration --- Sikh diaspora --- 294*6 --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Diaspora, Sikh --- East Indian diaspora --- Human geography --- 294*6 Sikhisme --- Sikhisme --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Emigration and immigration.

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"In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of realizing their ideological ambitions. When it came to influence and impact, the Sufi shrines had a huge advantage over the colonial art institutions, such as the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore. The mystically-inspired shrines, built as a statement of Muslim ruling ambitions, were better suited to the task of appealing to local art traditions. By contrast the colonial institutions, rooted in the Positivist Romanticism of the Victorian West, found assimilation to be more of a challenge. In questioning their relative success and failures at influencing local culture, the book explores the extent to which political control translates into cultural influence. Folktales, Sufi shrines, colonial architecture, institutional education methods and museum exhibitions all provide a wealth of sources for revealing the complex dynamic between the Punjabi artisans, the Sufi community and the colonial British. In this unique look at a little-explored aspect of India's history, Hussain Ahmad Khan explores this evidence in order to illuminate this web of cultural influences. Examining the Sufi-artisan relationship within the various contexts of political revolt, the decline of the Mughals and the struggle of the Sufis to establish an Islamic state, this book argues that Sufi shrines were initially constructed with the aim of affirming a distinct 'Muslim' identity. At the same time, art institutions established by colonial officials attempted to promote eclectic architecture representing the 'British Indian empire', as well as to revive the pre-colonial traditions with which they had previously seemed out of touch. This important book sheds new light on the dynamics of power and culture in the British Empire."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Architecture --- History of Asia --- architecture [discipline] --- Sufism --- shrines [structures] --- Colonial Indian --- anno 1800-1899 --- Panjab [India] --- Islamic shrines --- Muslim shrines --- Shrines --- Islamic architecture --- Asian history. --- History --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Arab architecture --- Architecture, Arab --- Architecture, Islamic --- Architecture, Moorish --- Architecture, Muslim --- Architecture, Saracenic --- Moorish architecture --- Muslim architecture --- Saracenic architecture --- Religious architecture --- Islam

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This is a 'broad-brush' multi-faceted approach to understand what happened in Punjab after a decade of violence and lawlessness.

Political persecution --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Punjab (India) --- Civilization. --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India)

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Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations studies Punjabi transnational life from perspectives that have relevance for contemporary policy, planning and governance. It analyses the spatially widespread, integrated and complex Punjabi diaspora while reflecting its vulnerability in an increasingly globalized world. Besides an overarching introduction and a historical overview, this book covers shifting contours of international migration, social structure and organizational links, the interrelationship between education and migration, and family networks of the Punjabi emigrants.

Panjabis (South Asian people) --- Sikhs --- Transnationalism. --- Caste. --- Ethnicity. --- Affiliation (Psychology) --- Emigrant remittances. --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Punjabis (South Asian people) --- Immigrant remittances --- Remittances, Emigrant --- Foreign exchange --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Manners and customs --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Sikh diaspora --- Migrations. --- Social conditions. --- Punjab (India) --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Emigration and immigration.