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Contents
Foreword by the Series Editor viii
Preface x
List of tables xii
Maps xiii
Introduction xvii
Theoretical issues xviii
Scope of the study xxiv
1 The Sikhs: the search for statehood 1
A sect, a community or a nation? 1
The making of Sikh ethnic consciousness 3
The colonial encounter 5
Under the postcolonial state 10
Search for statehood: the dilemma 18
Indian nationalism: perils of a nation-state 22
2 The Sikh diaspora: a history of settlement 27
The colonial era 29
The postcolonial era 39
Post-1984 emigration: Sikh refugees 42
Conclusion 45
3 The Sikh diaspora and the Punjab: dialectics of ethnic
linkages
47