Based on six years of fieldwork in rural northern California, Women and the Sikh Diaspora in California: Singing the Seven Seas reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora. In the book, Nicole Ranganath examines the role of gender, water and land in the cultural history of Sikhs. 

From the Punjab region of South Asia hundreds of years ago to current day Northern California, it explores song as a window into the interior lives of Sikh women through their performance of diverse genres: gadar anti-colonial songs, folk music, hymns, and autobiographical songs.

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