Punjabi Folk Songs and Stories behind Old Cities of Multan and Lahore

Authors

  • Armeen Kaur Ahuja Delhi University

Abstract

The paper looks into how city of Multan and Lahore became part of tropes that run in Punjabi Folk songs. It looks at the relationship of cities and its people and how these spatial outlooks are manifested in a community’s folk lore.
Keywords: Punjabi Folk Songs, Indian-subcontinent Cities, Post-colonial literature, Punjabi folk lore.

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Author Biography

Armeen Kaur Ahuja, Delhi University

Armeen Kaur Ahuja is serving as Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc) in SGTB Khalsa College, Du in Department of English. Her M. Phil. Dissertation has focused on politics of Space in Punjabi Folk lore. Her area of interest is physical and metaphysical operation of space in articulation of cognition.

References

1. Gandhi, Rajmohan. Punjab: A history from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. Aleph Book Company, Delhi, 2015.
2. Temple, R.C. Popular legends of India and Pakistan. Ed. Maheep Singh. Amar Prakashan, Delhi, 1991.
3. ਰਾਜਪਾਲ, ਹੁਕਮ ਚੰਦ| ਮੁਲਤਾਨੀ ਲੋਕ ਗੀਤ| ਪਬਲੀਕੇਸ਼ਨ ਬਿਓਰੋ, ਪਟਿਆਲਾ, ੧੯੯੬|

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Published

2020-05-10

How to Cite

Ahuja, Armeen Kaur. “Punjabi Folk Songs and Stories Behind Old Cities of Multan and Lahore”. Contemporary Literary Review India, vol. 7, no. 2, May 2020, pp. 12-33, https://www.literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/432.

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2: CLRI May 2020

Section

Research Papers

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