Precolonial and Colonial Punjab: Society, Economy, Politics, and Culture: Essays for Indu Banga. Edited by Reeta Grewal and Sheena Pall Beginning with geographical and cultural views at the early Punjab, and the migration and agreement of Jatts through the 17th century, essays withinside the first a part of this extent reside on one of a kind elements of socio-financial and cultural existence in north-western India withinside the precolonial times. They attention on agrarian society, modes of irrigation, trde and urbanization, Sahiban in Punjabi literature, Punjabi heroic poetry, and cultural existence withinside the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Twelve essays withinside the 2nd component carry out multi-faceted extrade beneathneath colonial rule, with their foucs on organisation of administrative space, epidemics, standard regulation and Christian missionary sports on the subject of women; reaction of peasants, agricultural labourers, conservative Hindus and Dalits to the colonial environment; politicization of Punjabi migrants in North America; convergence of communitarian and nationalist worries earlier than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre; escalation of communal violence in Lahore and Amritsar withinside the context of occasions main to partition; and the attitudes of Punjabi writers toward colonial rule. This extent breaks sparkling floor in local records and increases a few large troubles of ancient method and interdisciplinary approach.