Pirs and politics in Punjab, 1937-2013
This paper provides a first systematic mapping of politically influential shrines across Pakistani Punjab by identifying shrine-related families that have directly participated in elections since 1937. One of the earliest entrants in the politics of pre-partition Punjab, shrine elites (pīrs) have sh...
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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