Religion and Nationalism in India: The Case of the PunjabThis timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book reveals the role in this movement of a section of young semi-literate Sikh peasantry who were disaffected by the Green Revolution and the commercialisation of agriculture in Punjab. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Deol examines the role of popular mass media in the revitalisation of religion during this period, and the subsequent emergence of sharper religious boundaries. |
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... Indian Kashmir and Sikh separatism in India present a congeries of contemporary breakaway movements in the Indian subcontinent. India's complex social structure presents a kaleidoscopic cultural universe, a plethora of regional ...
... Indian Kashmir and Sikh separatism in India present a congeries of contemporary breakaway movements in the Indian subcontinent. India's complex social structure presents a kaleidoscopic cultural universe, a plethora of regional ...
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The Case of the Punjab Harnik Deol. acquires a particular significance when it is remembered that the Sikhs are a ... Sikh shrines and pilgrimage centres associated with the Sikh gurus. Vigorous campaigns associated with the Sikhs have ...
The Case of the Punjab Harnik Deol. acquires a particular significance when it is remembered that the Sikhs are a ... Sikh shrines and pilgrimage centres associated with the Sikh gurus. Vigorous campaigns associated with the Sikhs have ...
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The Case of the Punjab Harnik Deol. Sutlej and the river Chenab is the Malwa region. This territory never became part of Lahore state under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Under British suzerainty, several Sikh chiefs of Malwa had to cede their ...
The Case of the Punjab Harnik Deol. Sutlej and the river Chenab is the Malwa region. This territory never became part of Lahore state under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Under British suzerainty, several Sikh chiefs of Malwa had to cede their ...
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... Hindu and 60.75 per cent is Sikh according to the figures provided in the Statistical Abstract of Punjab for 1991–2. Aims. and. Methods. The book traces the transition of the Sikhs from a religious congregation in the sixteenth century ...
... Hindu and 60.75 per cent is Sikh according to the figures provided in the Statistical Abstract of Punjab for 1991–2. Aims. and. Methods. The book traces the transition of the Sikhs from a religious congregation in the sixteenth century ...
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... of the Sikh nation formation. The questions that my research raises include, first, some specific questions relating to the contemporary Sikh unrest. If the demand for a separate Sikh state is a recent phenomenon, then the obvious ...
... of the Sikh nation formation. The questions that my research raises include, first, some specific questions relating to the contemporary Sikh unrest. If the demand for a separate Sikh state is a recent phenomenon, then the obvious ...
Contents
The Contradictory Unity of the Indian State | |
The Historical Roots of Sikh Communal Consciousness 14691947 | |
The Rise of Sikh National Consciousness 194795 | |
The Agrarian Crisis and the Rise of Armed Resistance The SocioEconomic | |
Transformation in Social Communication and Religious Controversy | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
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