Bibliography

Papers

• ‘Diasporas’ in People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health and Immigration, edited by Kofi Lomotey et.al. ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, October 2016
• 'Maximum Security and Minimum Development- The Irony and Paradox of Living at the Indo-Pak Border’ in Life at the Border: A Paradox of Security and Development, edited by Sukhdev Singh Sohal and Anjali Mehra, Serials Publication Ltd, New Delhi 2016
• 'Reconceptualising the Diaspora in Indian Diaspora: Between Modernity & Tradition, Edited by Paramjit S. Judge, Rawat Publications, 2015
• '"No Man’s Land?": Exclusion in the Borderbelt of Punjab,' in Mapping Social Exclusion in India-Caste, religion and Borderlands’, Edited by Paramjit S. Judge, Cambridge Publications,2014
• 'Sikhs' in ‘ Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia’, Sage Publications, USA, ISBN : 9781452216836, September 2013
• 'Will AAP succeed where PPP failed?' in the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, April 12, 2014
• 'From Ghadar to Komagata Maru:The Journey of the Sikhs in North America', in the Journal of Regional History, Vol. XVIII, 2012
• 'Reconstructing Sikh Diaspora' in the International Migration, Vol-50, Number-1 February 2012, Pages-129-142, ISSN Number-1468-2435
• 'Baptism by Fire, Survival By Grit: Life in the Border belt of Punjab' in the Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology , Volume 31, Numbers 1&2, 2010, pages 20-36, ISSN. 0970-0242
• 'The Sikh Diaspora In North America from Beginning Till Ghadar Movement' in the Punjab Journal of Politics, Volume-XXXIV, Numbers 1 & 2, 2010, pages 106-119, ISSN 0253-3960
• 'Social Exclusion In the Border belt of Punjab' Research Report -2 ,CSSEIP, GNDU Press, Amritsar, 2010
• 'Diasporic Sikh Organisations' in the Indian Journal Of Political Science, Volume LXX, No.4, Oct-Dec 2009, pages 1085-1098, ISSN: 0019-5510
• ‘Baptism by Fire, Survival By Grit: Life in the Border belt of Punjab’ Working Paper series 3 CSSEIP, GNDU Press, Amritsar, June 2010

Selected Public Presentations

• ‘The Unfairness of Being the Fair Sex: How the Educated Class Imagine the Female,’ National Seminar organized by the Department of Economics at the Guru Nanak Bhawan, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 2015.
• 'Contextualizing the Sikh Migration' at National Seminar on Komagata Maru Episode, October28, 2014 at Conference Hall, Guru Nanak Bhawan, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
• 'Maximum Security and Minimum development- The Irony and Paradox of Living at the Indo-Pak Border' at Punjab Today Seminar, 6-7 February 2014, Department of Sociology, Delhi University.
• ‘No Man’s Land? A Study of Exclusion along Indo-Pak Border’ at Canadian-American Border Colloquium, May 16, 2012, Western Washington University, Bellingham.
• ‘The Sikh Diaspora and its Long Distance Nationalism in the 21st Century’ at the Fairhaven College, May 16, 2012, Fairhaven College, Bellingham.
• ‘The recent Punjab Elections and the Sikhs in the Bay Area at 'South Asia by the Bay'’, May 9-11, 2012, Stanford University, Stanford.
• ‘Living on the Borderland’ at Wildavsky Conference Room at Institute for the Study of the Societal Issues, November 29, 2011, University of California, Berkeley.
• ‘Evolution of Diaspora from Punjab’ in the National Seminar on ‘Emerging Trends in Historiography of the Punjab’ ,Department of History, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, March 18, 2011.
• ‘Exclusion of Border Areas from Development’ to faculty and students from Western Bellingham University, at CSSEIP, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar February 23, 2011.
• Address to farmers of the border areas of Amritsar on the problems and prospects of border residents in Punjab, 15th February 2010 at Attari, Amritsar.
• ‘Exclusion in Borderland: Issues of Gender and Matrimony’ in the National Seminar on ‘Historical Perspectives on Gender Issues in North-Western India, on January 31-01 February 2011 ,Post Graduate Department of History DAV College, Amritsar.
• 'No Man’s Land: Exclusion in the Borderbelt of Punjab’ presented at the ‘National seminar on Development, Disparities and Patterns of Social Exclusion in India’ ,Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy ,Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar November 8-9, 2010.
• ‘Inclusive Education In Punjab: A Study of Exclusion in Social Sciences Textbooks’ in ICSSR sponsored Conference on Education Scenario in Punjab: Challenges and Prospects, organised by the School of Social Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, March 4-5, 2010.
• 'Baptism by Fire, Survival by Grit: Life in the Border belt of Punjab' at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, in the University of Fraser Valley (UFV), Abbotsford, BC, Canada, on June 4, 2009.
• Delivered lecture to the rural communities for the World Bank sponsored Water Project in collaboration with the Government of Punjab in Villages of Amritsar and Tarn Taran. April-May 2009.