ABSTRACT
The communitarian nuances in the historiography of Punjabi literature began to emerge in the colonial Punjab. If Reason invalidates folklore/literature, the latter also questions Reason that drains out concreteness that is, historicality, the true historical existence of man. Waris Shah takes his reader to the local lanes of Islamic life and the indigenous culture of the Punjabi Muslims whose socio-cultural liminal space is not enlisted in the Islamic, Sikh and Hindu texts of history. With reference to the advent of Islam and conversion in India, Richard Eaton in his writings underlines the significance of folklore and folk devotional spaces of the different regions of Indian sub-continent. Apart from the aforementioned discourse constructed in the post-Partition era, the protagonists of the two-nation theory do not look at the advent of Islam as an addition to Punjabi culture; rather they held Muslims responsible for causing cleavages in it.
