Guest Posted December 19, 2003 Report Share Posted December 19, 2003 Can you guys post names of the books? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mehtab Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 one is "fighting for faith and freedom" by cynthia mehmood...thats basically about the militants whom she met in person. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guv Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 "the nation's tortured body" by brian keith axel. just got it, haven't read it yet. synopsis: In "The Nation's Tortured Body" Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspora, or histories of displacement, that have created particular kinds of places - homelands. Based on ethnographies and archival research conducted by Axel at several sites in India, England and the United States, the text delineates a theoretical trajectory for thinking about the proliferation of diaspora studies and area studies in America and England. After discussing this trajectory in relation to the colonial and postcolonial movement of Sikhs, Axel analyzes the production and circulation of images of Sikhs around the world, beginning with visual representations of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last ruler of Punjab, who died in 1893. He argues that imagery of particular male Sikh bodies has situated - at different times and in different ways - points of mediation between various populations of Sikhs around the world. Most crucially, he describes the torture of Sikhs by Indian police between 1983 and the present and discusses the images of tortured Sikh bodies that have been circulating on the Internet since 1996. Finally, he returns to questions of the homeland, reflecting on what the issues discussed in "The Nation's Tortured Body" might mean for the ongoing fight for Khalistan. Specialists in anthropology, history, cultural studies, disapora studies and Sikh studies should find much of interest in this work. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...2558675-3454811 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tSingh Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 From what I remember, Gurharpal Singh's book is very good, likewise for Darshan Singh Tatla's, which are more a history of the movement after '84 both within punjab and in the diaspora. Makes for quite depressing reading mind... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guv Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 what are the names of the books? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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