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Author Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley

Title Fighting for faith and nation : dialogues with Sikh militants / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Series Series in contemporary ethnography
Series in contemporary ethnography.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Of Nightmares and Contacts -- 2. The Fragrance of Jasmine -- 3. A Saint-Soldier -- 4. Blue Star -- 5. Why Khalistan? -- 6. Drawing the Sword -- 7. Three Fighters -- 8. Playing the Game of Love -- 9. The Princess and the Lion -- 10. Culture, Resistance, and Dialogue -- 11. Looking into Dragons -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."--Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB
The ethnic and religious violence that characterizes the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence - either as victims or as perpetrators - gives new insights into both the sources of violent conflict and the potential for its resolution. Going beyond such easy labels as "fundamentalism" and "terrorism," Mahmood shows how complex and multifaceted the human experience of political violence actually is. Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, she presents their accounts of the human rights abuses they suffer in India as well as their explanations of the philosophical tradition of martyrdom and meaningful death in the Sikh faith. While demonstrating how divergent the worldviews of participants in a conflict can be, Fighting for Faith and Nation gives reason to hope that our essential common humanity may provide grounds for a pragmatic resolution of conflicts like the one in Punjab, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the past fifteen years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index
Notes This edition in English
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Subject Sikhs -- Politics and government
Human rights -- India -- Punjab
Sikhism.
Sikhism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Human rights
Politics and government
Sikhism
Sikhs -- Politics and government
SUBJECT Punjab (India) -- Politics and government
Subject India -- Punjab
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585127026
9780585127026
9780812200171
0812200179
9786613210654
661321065X