%0 Journal Article
%T Historiography, fieldwork and popular Sufi shrines in the Indian Punjab
%A Yogesh Snehi
%J The Indian Economic & Social History Review
%@ 0973-0893
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0019464619835667
%X Based on three case-studies of popular Sufi shrines that have been in continuous existence in post-Partition Indian Punjab, this article examines the prevalent discourse of ¡®secular¡¯ historiography in India that privileges the archive and situates the narrative strategy of the popular as marginal or outside of historical discourse. Instead, I argue that a fuller understanding of social processes, outside of prescribed imaginary binaries of secularity and/or conflict, can take place only through attention to lived experience and communitarian formation. It is these registers of religious practice that suggests non-statist histories which demand the evolution of critical theories and methods to account for lived experiences that persist outside of nationalising discourses
%K Sufi shrines
%K social mobility
%K historical anthropology
%K fieldwork
%K Punjab
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019464619835667