Native Nations

Below are resources related to the “Potohari Punjabi of Pakistan” chapter of Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, 3rd Edition, edited by Sharlotte Neely and Douglas W. Hume.

Agencies & Organizations

• Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations – Aga Khan University
• Potohari – The Art & Craft Village
• Punjabi Studies at University of British Columbia

Discussion Questions

• Language is often important in an Indigenous People’s identity. What effect will likely result from the declining use of the Punjabi Potohari dialect?
• Speculate on what could be done to reverse the decline.

Documentary Films

• Final Assault
• Like Children’s Eyes – “A short video about Bhaloti children. This has no dialogue or voice over. It’s a compilation of footage I took in the late 1990s that was put together by a former student of mine (Maria Kastrinou). Maria gets full directing and producing credit—all I did was take video of little kids on demand in the village. She worked as an intern for me over a summer and I have her access to all my video footage to code. Her ‘reward’ (apart from the internship funding) was that she could make short films out of any of the video.” — Stephen Lyon

Further Reading

• Ashutosh, Varshney. 1983. "Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in India." Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine 7 (3). https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/ethnic-and-religious-conflicts-india.
• Lyon, Stephen M.  2004. An Anthropological Analysis of Local Politics and Patronage in a Pakistani  Village. Edwin Mellon Press.

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Contemporary Potohari Punjabi

Ethnic Groups of Pakistan

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Potohari Punjabi Ethno-historical Photograph

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