Global Institute for Sikh Studies

JSPS

Journal of Sikh & Punjāb Studies

ISSN: 0971-5223

Started in the U.K. in 1994 as International Journal of Punjāb Studies, it continued as Journal of Punjāb Studies under the auspices of the Global Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara from 2004 to 2015. In 2016, it moved to the newly created Global Institute for Sikh Studies, New York, and reincarnated itself as Journal of Sikh & Punjāb Studies.

JSPS' primary goal is to disseminate the latest research on the Punjab, a region located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent. It welcomes articles on any facet of the land and its people from the Indus Valley Civilization (2000BCE) to the political bifurcation of the region into East Punjab (India) and West Punjab (Pakistan), in 1947, and the migration of many Punjabis around the globe in the subsequent decades.

JSPS publishes peer reviewed/refereed research broadly in the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. It is indexed in SCOPUS and UGC CARE.

It is FREE, and we at GISS sincerely hope that scholars, teachers, students, and lay readers would make good use of this reservoir of information. All 30 volumes carrying over 200 articles and a large set of book reviews can be accessed and downloaded.

Journal of Sikh & Punjāb Studies Executive Editor
Gurinder Singh Mann (Director, GISS, New York, NY)

Journal of Sikh & Punjab Studies
Volume 31 - Numbers 1&2
Spring-Fall 2024

Journal of Sikh & Punjab Studies - Volume 31, Nos. 1 & 2 - Spring-Fall 2024

Table of Contents

	VOLUME 31, Numbers 1&2 - SPRING-FALL 2024
	CONTENTS	i.
	I. EDITORIAL
	Editorial	1
	II. ARTICLES
Mark Juergensmeyer	Understanding the Lure of Bhindranwale in Global Context: Personal Reflections	3
Shinder S. Thandi	Forty Years of Impunity: State Complicity and Betrayal in Delivering Justice to Victims of 1984 Delhi Massacre	19
Virginia Van Dyke	Reviewing ‘Punjab Crisis’ 1984: ‘Turmoil in Punjab,’ ‘Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi’s Last Battle,’ and ‘The Punjab Crisis and the Unity of India’	55
Karamjit K. Malhotra	Sikh Religious Practices: Guiding Norms and Texts	67
Ronki Ram	Intersectionality of Deras, Social Capital and Conflict Formation: Dera Sacha Sauda as an Exemplar	97
Saadia Sumbal	Adjudicating Muslim Intestate Succession: Shariat versus Customary Law	169
Ashutosh Kumar	The 2024 Parliamentary Elections and Punjab Politics: Commonalities, Exceptionalism, and Takeaways	189
Rana Nayar	Surjit Patar: A ‘Sufi’ of Our Times	205
Jaivir Singh	The House of Bagrian: Uncovering Four Centuries of Hidden Contribution to Sikh History	223
	III. BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews - Contents	Contents	241
Book Reviews	Reviews	243
	IV. TRANSLATIONS
Harpreet Singh	The Ẓafarnāma: Toward a Critical Edition	275
	V. PUNJABI SECTION
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