| ID | 185967 |
| Title Proper | Remaking of ethnic-boundaries |
| Other Title Information | identity and religion among Sikhs in the borderland of Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sharma, Malvika |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Being an Ethnic-Pahari-Sikh-Borderlander in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir is a phenomenon that adds to the discourse of ethnicity and nationalism. Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 acted as a disruption in the socio-political history of the ethnic-community of Poonch generating difference and othering. This led to a newer set of challenges that re-imagines the concept of ethnicity altogether. Through an ethnographic account of the religiously assertive Sikh-identity in Poonch, this study asks the questions: Can the religious-reassertion of identities in a community render a concept as giant as ethnicity a myth? What happens to the historic origins of ethnic-bonds when identities begin to organise themselves exclusively on religious lines? Identities in Poonch exist at crossroads where being a religious Sikh challenge the idea of an ethno-geographic Sikh, both of them trying to co-exist under a bigger identity of being a borderlander. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Ethinicity Vol. 23, No.2; Mar 2022: p.279-297 |
| Journal Source | Asian Ethinicity Vol: 23 No 2 |
| Key Words | Ethnicity ; Religion ; Boundaries ; Community ; Ethnic ; Communalism ; Identity ; Border ; Nation ; Borderland ; Difference ; Othering ; Syncretism ; Nation - State ; Intra - Ethnic - Interaction |