This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab its attendant violence and as a consequence the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma dreams and laments identity(s) and homeland(s) it explores the partition of the very idea ofPunjabiyat. It was Punjab (along with Bengal) that was divided to create the new nations of India and Pakistan. In subsequent years religious and linguistic sub-divisions followed - arguably no other region of the su