• Frontmatter,
• PREFACE,
• CONTENTS,
• LIST OF TABLES,
• MAP,
• I. PRESSURES ON NATION-BUILDING,
• II. THE PUNJAB AND PUNJABI SUBA,
• III. BACKGROUND OF PUNJABI SUBA,
• IV. POLITICAL LEADERS: AKALI AND CONGRESS,
• V. RESOURCES OF THE AKALI DAL,
• VI. POLITICAL STRATEGIES OF THE AKALI DAL,
• VII. SUPPORT FOR THE POLITICAL SYSTEM,
• VIII. SUMMARY,
• APPENDIX,
• BIBLIOGRAPHY,
• INDEX,

This full-scale study of Punjabi politics since Indian Independence in 1947 considers the major political problem confronting virtually every new nation: how to create a functioning political system in the face of divisive internal threats.
Originally published in 1966.
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