Title	The Possibilities of Punjabi : Modern Punjabi Literature in India, Pakistan, and Beyond : [Interview with Uma Singh and Hirday Paul Singh, Preet Nagar]
Creator	Murphy, Anne
Contributor	Transnational Punjabi Literature and the Pursuit of the Secular (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued	2016-07-21
Description	In this 2014 interview for Dr. Anne Murphy’s SSHRC-funded project “Transnational modern Punjabi literature and the pursuit of the secular,” Uma Singh and Hirday Paul Singh speak to the creation and legacy of Preet Nagar, one of Punjab’s first planned townships as well as a socio-cultural hub for Punjabi literature, language and culture. Quoting Uma Singh, and Hirday Paul Singh; the “basic idea of Preet Nagar was collective living and being self-sustained, self- maintained and self-reliant.” This was the context in which Punjabi language could flourish in Preet Nagar. Interview by Dr. Anne Murphy. Funded by SSHRC Insight Development (430-2013-000121) and Insight (435-2017-0406) Grants.
Subject	Preet Nagar (India)
Geographic Location	Punjab (India)
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng; pan
Date Available	2019-10-18
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0384536
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/71967
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Asian Studies, Department of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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