Punjab in Prosperity and Violence

J.S. Grewal, Formerly Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Director and later Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, has published extensively on the historiography of medieval India and the Sikh and Punjab history. Some of his books by Manohar are Sikh Ideology, Polity and Social Order (2007); Recent Debates in Sikh Studies: An Assessment (2011); Historical Writings on the Sikhs: Western Enterprise and Indian Response (2012); and Guru Nanak: A New Path and a New Panth (forthcoming). His other recent publications include Master Tara Singh in Indian History (OUP, 2017) and Guru Gobind Singh: Master of the White Hawk (OUP, 2019).Indu Banga, Professor Emerita in History, Panjab University, Chandigarh, and formerly Professor of History, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, has authored/edited nearly 20 books on agrarian, urban, institutional, social, and cultural history of medieval and modern India and the Punjab. Her publications by Manohar include Five Punjabi Centuries (2000); The City in Indian History (2005); Ports and their Hinterlands, 1700-1950 (2019); and Agrarian System of the Sikhs: Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century (2019). Her other recent publica-tions are The Ghadar Movement (conjoint, Pbi University, 2013) and A Political Biography of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha, 1883-1942 (conjoint, OUP, 2018).

• 1 Administrative Space - Gopal Krishnan & Surya Kant2 Punjab Administration at Work - P.H. Vaishnav3 Nehru, Indira Gandhi and the Punjab - Tejwant S. Gill4 The Punjab Congress - P.S. Verma5 Sikh Identity, the Akalis and Khalistan - J. S. Grewal6 A Decade of Violence, 1983-92 - K.S.Dhillon7 Violence in Retrospect - Pramod Kumar8 The Logic of Sikh Militancy - Birinder Pal Singh9 Demographic Change - Gopal Krishan 10 Urbanisation Since Independence - Gopal Krishan11 Partiarchal Structure and Violence Against Women - Rainuka Dagar12 Dalits in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh - S.K. Gupta13 Attached Labour in Haryana - Surinder S. Jodhka14 The Village Community in Punjabi Novel J.S. Rahi & S.S. KhahraContributors