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Fighting for faith and nation :

0812215923

0812233611

9780812215922

9780812233612

b523555

Fighting for faith and nation :

[Book]

dialogues with Sikh militants /

Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

Philadelphia :

University of Pennsylvania Press,

1997

xi, 314 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm

Series in contemporary ethnography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index

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

Human rights-- India-- Punjab

Sikhism

Sikhs-- Politics and government

Punjab (India), Politics and government

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Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley

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