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Sikh Separatism

Author : Rajiv A. Kapur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029906
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sikh Separatism written by Rajiv A. Kapur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, Sikh Separatism is a comprehensive study of the emergence of Sikh unrest in India. The appearance of Sikh fundamentalism and separatism is not a sudden development. They are both shown to have deep social and historical roots linked to the growth of contemporary Sikh identity, community and organization. The genesis of Sikh communal consciousness and organization lies in a social and religious reform movement among Sikhs from the 1870s to the 1920s. This movement is believed to have moulded Sikh perceptions of their political interests and resulted in the establishment of an institutional framework which has served as an arena and a base for Sikh separatism. The development of this reform movement and its motivations, the strategies and tactics employed by the reformers and its profound political implications are examined. This book will be of interest to students of political science, international relations, and South Asian studies.

The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India

Author : Jugdep S. Chima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789353881566
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India written by Jugdep S. Chima and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived notion of looking at Punjab as the model of political stability in independent India and, on the other, raised several lingering socio-political questions which have great effect on Indian politics for decades to come, including the prospects of recurring ethnic insurgencies. The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focussing on "patterns of political leadership", a previously unexplored explanatory variable. It describes in detail the trends which led to the emergence of the "Punjab crisis", the various dynamics through which the movement sustained itself and the changing nature of "patterns of political leadership" which eventually resulted in its decline in the mid-1990s. Providing a microhistorical analysis of the "Punjab crisis," this book argues that the trajectories of ethnonationalist movements are largely determined by the interaction between self-interested ethnic and state political elites, who not only react to the structural choices they face, but whose purposeful actions and decisions ultimately affect the course of ethnic group--state relations. It consolidates this theoretical preposition through a comparative analysis of four contemporary global ethnonationalist movements--those occurring in Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Kashmir, and Assam. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying political science and history, especially those working on South Asia and the Sikhs, and also for public policy practitioners in multi-ethnic societies. It remains invaluable reading for those interested in the phenomenon of ethnonationalism.

Constitutional Aspects of Sikh Separatism

Author : Durga Das Basu
Publisher : Prentice Hall of India
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Aspects of Sikh Separatism written by Durga Das Basu and published by Prentice Hall of India. This book was released on 1985 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in India

Author : Maya Chadda
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107372
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in India written by Maya Chadda and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hallmark of Indian politics, ethnic tension have escalated dramatically since the 1980s, endangering India's unity as a sovereign democracy. Although a succession of governments has attempted to resolve them, these conflicts have weakened India's role as the dominant power in the region. This work examines the connections between internal and external policy and explores the ways in which domestic tensions, particularly arising from ethnic and sectarian heterogenity, shape India's role in the region. The book studies movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Tamil Nadu, which escalated throughout the 1980s and influenced India's relations with Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It argues that India does not seek hegemony in South Asia; instead it acts to protect its nation-building efforts from similar problems faced by neighbouring countries. Paradoxically, this goal requires India to intervene in neighbouring countries ethnic conflicts.

Religion, Identity, and Nationhood

Author : Paramjit S. Judge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Identity, and Nationhood written by Paramjit S. Judge and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sikh militant movement spanned one-and-a-half decades during which a considerable loss of life occurred in and outside Punjab. In terms of its spread, it almost became international in character largely due to the presence of diaspora Sikhs in most of the western world. This work is based on the analysis of the speeches and messages of the leaders of the militant movement. It has been argued, without essentializing the problematic, that the nature of discourse of the militant movement could be traced back to the construction of Sikhism in the second half of the nineteenth century. The ideology of the Singh Sabha movement and its attempt at the construction of singular religious identity provided the dynamics to the Sikh community. In the process, the religious tradition was invented, which emphasized the singular Sikh identity by paving the way for the fundamentalist discourse of separatism. The composite religious tradition in Sikhism was put at the margin of the community as a result of which it became possible to construct Sikh nationhood. Coupled with this construction was the attempt of the militants to purge the community from all syncretism practised by the Sikhs. It has been argued that despite this construction, the Sikh community has continued to observe the composite tradition though the threat of militant violence greatly reduced the eclectic space of inter-subjective communitarian understanding and interaction."

Sikh Nationalism

Author : Gurharpal Singh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100921344X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sikh Nationalism written by Gurharpal Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new integrated methodology to understanding the historical and sociological development of modern Sikh nationalism. By emphasising the importance of studying Sikh nationalism from the perspective of the nation-building projects of India and Pakistan, the recent literature on religious nationalism and the need to integrate the study of the diaspora with the Sikhs in South Asia, they provide a fresh approach to a complex subject. Singh and Shani evaluate the current condition of Sikh nationalism in a globalised world and consider the lessons the Sikh case offers for the comparative study of ethnicity, nations and nationalism.

Separatist Violence in South Asia

Author : Matthew J. Webb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317393120
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Separatist Violence in South Asia written by Matthew J. Webb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since decolonization began in the late 1940s, a series of often lengthy and destructive separatist insurgencies have imposed severe financial, economic and human costs upon the states of South Asia. Whereas previous analyses of these conflicts have typically focussed upon the parent state or separatist group as the relevant unit of analysis, this book adopts a broader framework, arguing that separatism cannot be understood in isolation from the concept of state sovereignty. This book explores the motives, tactics, successes and failures of South Asia’s separatist movements by deconstructing sovereignty into its constituent components and offers an explanation for why separatism, but not political violence, has recently declined in the region. Taking a comparative explanatory viewpoint, it offers a comprehensive review of relevant explanatory theories dominant in the scholarly literature on separatism and an examination of their application to the South Asian states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. As a thought-provoking discussion of statehood and sovereignty, this book will be of interest to students of political theory, comparative politics, international relations and South Asian politics.

Secession and Security

Author : Ahsan I. Butt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501713965
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Secession and Security written by Ahsan I. Butt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions against Armenians in 1908 but escalated to genocide against the same community in 1915; caused Israel to reject a Palestinian state in the 1990s; and shaped peaceful splits in Czechoslovakia in 1993 and the Norway-Sweden union in 1905. Butt focuses on two main cases—Pakistani reactions to Bengali and Baloch demands for independence in the 1970s and India's responses to secessionist movements in Kashmir, Punjab, and Assam in the 1980s and 1990s. Butt's deep historical approach to his subject will appeal to policymakers and observers interested in the last five decades of geopolitics in South Asia, the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and ethno-national conflict, separatism, and nationalism more generally.

The Sepoy and the Raj

Author : David Omissi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349147680
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Sepoy and the Raj written by David Omissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.

India's Agony Over Religion

Author : Gerald James Larson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791424124
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book India's Agony Over Religion written by Gerald James Larson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-02-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya.

The Sikh Minority and the Partition of the Punjab 1920-1947

Author : Chhanda Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656157
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Sikh Minority and the Partition of the Punjab 1920-1947 written by Chhanda Chatterjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesced the hymns authored or collected by the Gurus and made them a people of the book. Guru Govind Rai created the Khalsa identity with its five symbols (Panj Kakke). Maharaja Ranjit Singh's conquests gave them the pride of race. British insistence on recruiting only keshdhari Sikhs encouraged the Khalsa to assert their distinct identity. The trend accelerated since the revolt of 1857, when John Lawrence reversed the initial successes of the rebels with the recovery of Delhi with forces from the Punjab. Sikhs were co-opted by the British with the clever broadcast of the Guru Tegh Bahadur myth that the Sikhs would be able to avenge the martyrdom of the Guru in Delhi with the help of a white race. Since then the Sikhs formed the backbone of the British Indian army and all their political influence flowed out of this military connection. The unexpected Congress concession of weightage to the Muslims in the Lucknow Pact of 1916 awakened the Sikhs to the necessity of the defence of Khalsa interests. Their vociferations compelled the British to concede a 19 per cent weightage for the Sikhs in the Montagu-Chelmsford Act of 1919. Gandhi appreciated the indispensable nature of Sikh support for the success of the British military machine. His attempt to subsume the Akali movement under the umbrella of the Non-Cooperation movement in the 1920s against the British and again his attempt to win over the Sikhs for his Civil Disobedience movement during the Lahore Congress in 1929 reflected this shrewd political sense. Sikhs continued to wrench concessions both from the British and the Congress as long as the Pax Britannica had any chance of survival. But as the negotiations for decolonization quickened after the end of the Second World War, the magic of Sikh arms could no longer work miracles for their slender numbers. While British statesmen from Cripps to Attlee – all burnt gallons of midnight oil thinking of an acceptable settlement of the Hindu-Muslim impasse, no one paid much attention to the pathetic quest of Sikh leaders since 1940 to work out an acceptable formula for readjusting the borders of the Punjab to accommodate the birthplace of the Gurus or the canal colonies, worked through long years of Sikh toil. This book traces the history of Sikhs in India, from the formation of a distinct Sikh identity, to their struggle for political representation in the pre-indedenpence era and their quest for an independent state. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

International Bibliography of Sikh Studies

Author : Rajwant Singh Chilana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402030444
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book International Bibliography of Sikh Studies written by Rajwant Singh Chilana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Bibliography of Sikh Studies brings together all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, project reports, and electronic resources produced in the field of Sikh Studies until June 2004, making it the most complete and up-to-date reference work in the field today. One of the youngest religions of the world, Sikhism has progressively attracted attention on a global scale in recent decades. An increasing number of scholars is exploring the culture, history, politics, and religion of the Sikhs. The growing interest in Sikh Studies has resulted in an avalanche of literature, which is now for the first time brought together in the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies. This monumental work lists over 10,000 English-language publications under almost 30 subheadings, each representing a subfield in Sikh Studies. The Bibliography contains sections on a wide variety of subjects, such as Sikh gurus, Sikh philosophy, Sikh politics and Sikh religion. Furthermore, the encyclopedia presents an annotated survey of all major scholarly work on Sikhism, and a selective listing of electronic and web-based resources in the field. Author and subject indices are appended for the reader’s convenience.

The Sikh Diaspora

Author : Darsham Singh Tatla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367442
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Sikh Diaspora written by Darsham Singh Tatla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of the Sikh diaspora, exploring the relationship between home and host states and between migrant and indigenous communities. The book considers the implications of history and politics of the Sikh diaspora for nationality, citizenship and sovereignity.; The text should serve as a supplementary text for undergraduates and postgraduates on courses in race, ethnicity and international migration within sociology, politics, international relations, Asian history, and human geography. In particular, it should serve as a core text for Sikh/Punjab courses within Asian studies.

Defining the Nonprofit Sector

Author : Lester M. Salamon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049026
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Defining the Nonprofit Sector written by Lester M. Salamon and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the world. This text seeks to provide a definition and a common classification of the non-profit sector, while recognizing the great diversity of voluntarism internationally.

Terrorist's Creed

Author : R. Griffin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137284722
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Terrorist's Creed written by R. Griffin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence.

The Khalistan Movement

Author : Ishwar Singh
Publisher : Enlightenment
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Khalistan Movement written by Ishwar Singh and published by Enlightenment. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khalistan Movement is an in-depth examination of the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural facets of Sikh separatism, focusing on the movement's many facets. This book, written by Ishwar Singh, tries to provide a fuller comprehension of the Khalistan movement, its effects on Punjab and India, its worldwide repercussions, and the continued pursuit of peace in a post-conflict period. Within India and among Sikhs worldwide, the Khalistan movement has been a contentious and significant topic. This movement, which has its origins in Sikh identity, autonomy, and self-determination, has transformed Punjab's political environment and impacted the conversation around minority rights and regionalism. Singh provides insightful analysis into the beginnings, development, and significant occasions that have shaped the Khalistan movement by examining the historical environment. The socio-political processes that underlie the Khalistan movement are explored in this book, along with the elements that have contributed to its emergence, such as complaints about political representation, economic inequalities, and the marginalization of the Sikh population. It clarifies the numerous individuals, groups, and beliefs that have influenced the movement while also looking at how religion, diaspora networks, and media tactics helped to garner support and maintain its momentum. Singh also conducts a critical analysis of how the Khalistan movement has affected Punjab and all of India. He explores how the movement would affect Punjab's socioeconomic structure, how it will affect Indian federalism, and how it will affect security. The book also examines the regional and international ramifications of the Khalistan movement, emphasizing its impact on neighboring nations, international law, and the precarious balance between the rights of minorities and national unity.

Sikhism

Author : Eleanor M. Nesbitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198745575
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Sikhism written by Eleanor M. Nesbitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.