TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahmood,Cynthia Keppley
TI  - Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants 
T2  - Contemporary Ethnography
SN  - 9780812215922
AV  - DS485.P88 M25 1997eb
U1  - 954.91/4/00882946 20
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Human rights
KW  - India
KW  - Punjab
KW  - Sikhism
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The ethnic and religious violence that characterized 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.Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, Cynthia Keppley Mahmood presents their accounts of the human rights abuses inflicted on them by the state of India as well as their explanations of the philosophical tradition of martyrdom and meaningful death in the Sikh faith. While demonstrating how divergent the world views 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 such as the one in Punjab which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the past fifteen years
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200171
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