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Subject(s)

• Sikhs—Politics and government [Browse]
• Punjab (India)—Politics and government [Browse]
• Human rights—India—Punjab [Browse]
• Sikhism [Browse]

Series

Series in contemporary ethnography [More in this series]

Summary note

• "A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."--Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB.
• 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record.

Language note

This edition in English.

ISBN

• 0585127026 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780585127026 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780812200171 ((electronic bk.))
• 0812200179 ((electronic bk.))
• 9786613210654
• 661321065X

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