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Farina Mir

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Occupation
  
Professor, Historian

Farina Mir httpslsaumicheduhistorypeoplefacultyfmir

Notable work
  
The Social Space of LanguagePunjab ReconsideredGenre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives

Books
  
The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab

Known for
  
History of the Punjab, British Empire

Farina mir the punjabi literary formation language and affect in a vernacular culture


Farina Mir is a historian and a professor at the University of Michigan. She has a keen interest in the history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India.

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Education

In 1993, Mir received her B.A. in English literature and Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures from Barnard College and in 2002, she received her Ph.D. in History with distinction from Columbia University.

Notable Works

  • The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
  • Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice, ed. Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • Genre and Devotion in Punjab's Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.3, July, 2006: 727-758.
  • Awards

  • John F. Richard Prize in South Asian History from the American Historical Association (2011)
  • Bernard Cohn Prize from the Association of Asian Studies (2012)
  • References

    Farina Mir Wikipedia


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