Book Description
This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.
Author : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107117038
This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.
Author : Gian Singh Sandhu
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Sikhs
ISBN : 9781987900187
A riveting, incisive account of some of the most complex politics in modern Canada, from the founder of the World Sikh Organization of Canada. An Uncommon Road is the celebration of an extraordinarily resilient people and a moving roadmap for how individuals, and a community, can fight for their own social justice and gain justice for all.
Author : G. S. Basran
Publisher : New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This book studies the migration and settlement of Sikhs from India to Canada, and looks at the socio-economic and cultural lives of that diaspora. It deals with gender, community, family, identity, religious beliefs, and language.
Author : Hugh J. M. Johnston
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0774825499
This new and expanded edition offers the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship's nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summer of 1914, only to be chased away by a Canadian warship. This story became a symbol of prejudicial immigration policies, which Canadians today reject, and served to fuel the emerging anti-British movement in India. It deserves the careful re-examination it gets in this thoroughly updated edition that provides a contemporary perspective on a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.
Author : Kamala Elizabeth Nayar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802086310
The result of an exhaustive analysis of the beliefs and attitudes among three generations of the Sikh community - and having conducted over 100 interviews - Nayar highlights differences and tensions with regards to the role of familial relations, child rearing, and religion.
Author : Sarjeet Singh Jagpal
Publisher : Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
A superbly illustrated book that succinctly describes the social history of the Sikh population in Canada, focusing on their struggles, hardships, and perseverance to live in British Columbia. -BC Historical News
Author : Terry Milewski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9354227791
Fifty years ago, the campaign for a sovereign Sikh state - Khalistan - went global, proclaiming the birth of the new nation with an advertisement in The New York Times on 12 October 1971. The ensuing decades saw a bloodbath in which thousands, mainly Sikhs, lost their lives. Today, the campaign has all but fizzled out in its homeland but overseas, a politically plugged-in band of hardcore separatists keeps the cause alive. In Blood for Blood, veteran Canadian journalist Terry Milewski takes a close look at the global Khalistan project, its hunger for revenge and the feeble response of India's Western allies. He traces the rise and fall of diaspora militants like Talwinder Singh Parmar - the Vancouver-based founder of the Babbar Khalsa terrorist group and the man behind the 1985 'Kanishka' bomb plot which killed 329 aboard Air India Flight 182. The book provides startling new information about the Khalistan movement in Canada, the United Kingdom and India, which has been sustained for decades by Pakistan and now threatens to draw in China. Brilliantly researched, Blood for Blood brings new insights to a topic that continues to hold global interest decades after it first came to light.
Author : Anita Rau Badami
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307375293
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected.
Author : Paul Bramadat
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442697024
As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between religious and ethnic identity in Canada's six largest minority religious communities: Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims and practitioners of Chinese religion. The chapters also highlight the ethnic diversity extant within these traditions in order to offer a more nuanced appreciation of the variety of lived experiences of members of these communities. Together, the contributors develop consistent themes throughout the volume, among them the changing nature of religious practice and ideas, current demographics, racism, and the role of women. Chapters related to the public policy issues of healthcare, education and multiculturalism show how new ethnic and religious diversity are challenging and changing Canadian institutions and society. Comprehensive and insightful, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada makes a unique contribution to the study of world religions in Canada.
Author : Jamie S. Scott
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442605162
The Religions of Canadians draws on the expert knowledge and personal insights of scholars in history, the social sciences, and the phenomenology of religion to introduce the beliefs and practices of nine religious traditions.