Interpreting the Sindhi World
Essays on Society and History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 28 October 2010
- ISBN 9780195477191
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 224x147x18 mm
- Weight 446 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
For more than thirty years, there has not been a project that consolidates international university-level scholarship on Sindh and Sindhis into a single forum. This book seeks to unite the wide community of scholars who work on Sindh and with Sindhis. The book's interdisciplinary focus is on history and society. It represents a 'snap shot' of contemporary research from different disciplines and locations. It combines interdisciplinary and multi-local approaches to
describe the diversity of Sindh's 'voices' and to raise questions about how they are historically and socio-culturally defined. Conventional studies of Sindh and Sindhis often bend the region and its people upon themselves to analyze society and history. This collection of essays treats Sindh and its
people not as isolated regional entities, but rather entries in a wider socio-cultural and historical web. Sindhis are a global community and this collection generates new perspectives on them by integrating detailed studies on Pakistan with those from India and the diaspora. Such an approach contrasts with other writings by celebrating rather than erasing multi-cultural faces from Sindh's human tapestry. By rethreading unheard socio-cultural and historical voices into understanding Sindh and
its people, this collection disputes the vision of Sindhis as a monolithic Muslim population in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Table of Contents:
Introduction (Boivin & Cook)
Pithoro Pir and the Pirpanthis: Materials on a Forgotten Tradition (Boivin)
The Legends of Udero Lal: Deconstructing a Cultural Icon in Sindh (Parwani)
Getting Ahead or Keeping Your Head? The 'Sindhi' Migration of the 18th Century (Cook)
Mobility, Territory and Authenticity: Sindhi Hindus in Kachchh, Gujarat (Ibrahim)
Richard Burton's Sindh: Folklore, Syncretism and Empire (Horta)
Unwanted Identities: the Sindhis of Gujarat (Kothari)
Recreating Sindh: Formations of Sindhi Hindu Saint Movements in New Contexts (Ramey)
The Sufi Saints of Sindhi Nationalism (Varaiik)
The NGO, the Guru and the Town Study of a Sindhi Charitable Organization in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (Pagani)
The Function and Role of Code Switching in the Malaysian Sindhi Community (David)
The Push and Pull of Displacement: The Hindu Exodus from Karachi in 1947 (Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar)
Index
