Fighting for Faith and Nation

Fighting for Faith and Nation
Author: Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0812200179

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.

Sikhism

Sikhism
Author: Eleanor M. Nesbitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198745575

An accessible introduction to the world's fifth largest religion, this work presents Sikhism's meanings and myths, and its practices, rituals, and festivals, also addressing ongoing social issues such as the relationship with the Indian state, the diaspora, and caste.

When Sparrows Became Hawks

When Sparrows Became Hawks
Author: Purnima Dhavan
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199756554

Purnima Dhavan examines the creation of the Khalsa Sikh warrior tradition during the 18th century. By focusing on the experiences of long-overlooked peasant communities, she reveals how a dynamic process of debates, collaboration, and conflict transformed Sikh practices and shaped a new martial culture.

The British & the Sikhs

The British & the Sikhs
Author: Gurinder Singh Mann
Publisher: Helion
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-01-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781911628248

A book which covers the relationship between the British and the Sikhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.