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The solo tabla (drum) music of Pakistani Panjab offers a rich area of study that heretofore has remained virtually unrecognized in the field of South Asian ethnomusicology. Unlike the highly developed, modern context of art music in the Republic of India, musical life in the Isl…

Colonization and sedentarization formed the same narrative in southwestern Panjab, writing the shift in discursive production from lineage to state over the spatial, material, and cultural transformation from herding to cultivating society. The dynamics of class among pastoralis…