Punjab Research Group

Speakers included:

Tej Purewal, University of Manchester, ‘Gender, Caste and Religious Identities in Punjab’                         

Tahir Mahmood, Coventry University, ‘Comparative Analysis of the Socio-economic Transformation of a Colony Chak and a Propriety Village in Shahpur District, 1890-1925′

Pratima Mitchell, Writer, ‘Bhagat Singh: Memories of a Next Door Neighbour’

Pritam Singh, Oxford Brooks University, ‘Contestation over appropriation of Bhagat Singh’

Pictures from the meeting in Manchester:

Speakers included:

Dominic Rai, Mán Melá Theatre Company and Mazhar Tirmazi, Punjabi Poet and writer, ‘Voices of Partition: 1947-2007′

Raja Adnan Razzaq, Visiting Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, ‘All-India Muslim League at grass root level: A case Study of Rawalpindi District 1940-47′

Nukhbah T Langah, School of English, University of Leeds, ‘Resistance in Postcolonial Pakistan through Siraiki Culture’

Federica Ferraris, Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sussex, ‘Going rural and urban at once. Reflections from the Roman Sikh context’