Conflict between Sikhs and Muslims is often remarked upon but rarely investigated rigorously. Such conflict is typically described as being due to angry youth or ethnic hatred and religious passions. This book interrogates such explanations, by focusing upon the relationship between diaspora and the articulation of a postcolonial Sikh identity.

Introduction: 'Shoot the 'Pakis!'' The Art of Storytelling
Chapter 1: Deconstructing Sikhs
Chapter 2: The Development of the Sikh Diaspora
Chapter 3: A History of Conflict
Chapter 4: Explaining Conflict
Chapter 5: Sweet Seduction: 'Forced' Conversion Narratives
Chapter 6: Accounting for Sikh and Muslim Conflict
Chapter 7: Sikhs and the British Ethnoscapes
Chapter 8: Sikh NOT Muslim- Questioning Sikh Islamophobia
Chapter 9: 'Who is a Sikh?'
Conclusion

Katy P. Sian is a lecturer in sociology at The University of Manchester. Previously she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Leeds where she also completed her PhD. She takes a key interest in debates surrounding racism and ethnicity studies, sociology, Sikh studies, Islamophobia, postcolonialism, Diaspora and South Asian identity.