Piro and the Gulabdasis: Gender, Sect, and Society in Punjab

by Anshu Malhotra

The middle decades of the nineteenth century in Punjab were a time of the disintegrating Sikh empire and an emerging colonial one. Situating her study in this turbulent time, Anshu Malhotra delves into the tumultuous life of a hitherto unknown woman, Piro, and her little-known sect, the Gulabdasis. Piro's forceful autobiographical narrative knits a fanciful tale of abduction and redemption, while also claiming agency over her life. Piro's is the extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199468184
• ISBN13: 9780199468188
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"