Fighting for Faith and Nation : : Dialogues with Sikh Militants / / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood.

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• VerfasserIn: Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 illus.

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.

Table of 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