Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era

By bringing together papers that focus on plural imaginings of the region, the book throws light on the importance of the region rather than the nation for Punjabi diasporas. The essays in the special issue demonstrate the connections of the Punjabi diaspora with the Punjab region that is imagined as a physical, social and mental construct rather than nation, language or ethnicity. This has implications both for the importance of the imagining of the region within diaspora studies and for the notion of the region itself as an imagined construct. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.