Institutions & belonging
Explore institutions and documented experiences with care for self-identification and difference.
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Jat histories include varied devotional settings, landholding politics and changing urban lives. Dated frontier accounts and studies of Jat Sikh representation reveal differences within a widely used community label.
Julaha weaving in colonial Punjab and a comparative study of identity in the former United Provinces, with the limits of occupational labels.
Kabir’s place in Punjabi religious history rests especially on the preservation and interpretation of his verses in Sikh scripture, within a wider history of oral and written traditions.
Association plans, an online community portal and a Chandigarh memorial record show particular ways Kamboj identity has been organised and remembered.
Kashmiri shawl makers’ nineteenth-century movement into Punjab and weavers’ post-Partition journeys from Amritsar to Lahore.
Khatri histories extend through accounting, Persian poetry and changing devotional lives. Specific Punjab, Multan, Jammu and memoir cases show how professional and religious commitments varied.
An Amritsar temple, Ludhiana’s Radha Gopinath project and a Punjab Hills painting show distinct local and historical expressions of Krishna devotion.
A Chakwal study records changing work among Kumhar pottery households. Its village cases show different responses to difficult livelihoods and new work.
Labana trade histories and Sikh traditions about Makhan Shah at Bakala, read alongside a colonial glossary and community accounts.
Langar joins the religious practice of sharing food with the labour, supplies and physical infrastructure needed to sustain a community kitchen.
Art-school records, Sialkot industry, village fieldwork and an adjacent hill credit case show how Lohar identities and metalworking skills met changing opportunities and constraints.
Mazhabi Sikh histories include devotional remembrance, changing forms of employment and the unequal opportunities created by colonial recruitment and land settlement.
Mirasi oral genealogy and music in Punjab, from colonial-era patronage to research on musicians’ differing descriptions of their work.
Malerkotla shrine visits and dated accounts of Guru ki Maseet show different forms of sharing, from family devotion to negotiated care and separate prayer spaces.
How a Pakistani Punjab village study describes the stigmatised term Musalli, alongside research on caste, land and housing.
Historical shrine households, visitors’ needs and state administration represent different forms of custodianship. Western Punjab examples show how religious authority and practical management can overlap.
Islamic practices, a Lahore mosque and scholarship on colonial politics provide an introduction to Muslim traditions in Punjab without treating the community as uniform.
A Lahore home assembly, Al-Huda’s study formats and a Bhera higher-study school show different settings for women’s religious participation. Each case has its own institution, period and evidence.
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