TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tatla,Darshan Singh
TI  - The Sikh diaspora: the search for statehood
SN  - 0295977159
U1  - 908.82946 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Ethnic identity
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 285-307; 1 The Sikhs: the search for statehood
A sect, a community or a nation? 
The making of Sikh ethnic consciousness
The colonial encounter
Under the postcolonial state
Search for statehood: the dilemma
Indian nationalism: perils of a nation-state
2 The Sikh diaspora: a history of settlement
The colonial era
The postcolonial era
Post-1984 emigration: Sikh refugees
Conclusion
3 The Sikh diaspora and the Punjab: dialectics of ethnic
linkages
Economic linkage 
Social exchange
Religious tradition
Diaspora: a creative site?
4 The Sikh diaspora and the Punjab: political linkages
Early links
Post-1947 associations 
Issues of mobilization
5 Demand for homeland: Sikhs in North America
Main organizations
Mobilization
6 Demand for homeland: Sikhs in Britain
Main organizations
Mobilization
7 Mediating between states: Sikh diplomacy and interstate
relations
Indian government and the Sikh diaspora
Indo-British relations and the Sikhs
Sikh diplomacy and Indo-us relations 
Indo-Canadian relations and the Sikh lobby
International organizations
Conclusion
8 Call of homeland: models and reality (if ethnic mobilization
Parameters of mobilization 
Discourse on the Sikh homeland
The impact of the critical event
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