This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the

poetics of belonging in the region. --Book Jacket.

Socio-intellectual history of the Sicngha Sabhaa, Arya Samaj, and Ahmadiyya, voluntary reform movements.

How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mu