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Violence and the Sikhs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:No linguistic content
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Elements in religion and violence,
Subjects:
Violence > Religious aspects > Sikhism.
Nonviolence > Religious aspects > Sikhism.
Pacifism > Religious aspects > Sikhism.
Non-violence > Aspect religieux > Sikhisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Violence and the Sikhs
  • Contents
  • 1 Representing Violence
  • Probing the Pacifism-Violence Binary
  • The "Dogmatic Image" of Violence
  • Narrating Violence Through Different Orders of Time: KalÌ„ and AkalÌ„
  • Bicameral Approach to Interpreting Violence
  • 2 Guru NaÌ„nak's Sovereign Violence
  • States of affairs-1 (kalÌ„)
  • Lines of Flight 1 (akalÌ„)
  • Tracking a Concept of Violence in Guru NanÌ„ak's Philosophy
  • Violating Ego
  • The Word that Kills: Sword of the Spiritual Warrior (gurmukh)
  • Performing Sovereign Violence 1: Early Encounters with the Mughal State
  • Hukam versus HukumÌ„at
  • Performing Sovereign Violence 2: Transmission of Guruship
  • 3 Martyrdom, Militancy, and the KhaÌ„lsaÌ„
  • States of Affairs 2 (kalÌ„)
  • Line of Flight 1: Martyrdom or Execution?
  • State of Affairs 2: Performing Sovereign Violence 3Creation of the KhalÌ„sa Ì„
  • Scene 1: The Willing Sacrifice
  • Scene 2: Initiation of the Double-Edged Sword
  • waheguru ji ka KhalÌ„sa,Ì„ waheguru ji ki fateh
  • Scene 3: The Guru's Self-Immolation
  • Line of Flight-2: Economies of Violence in the KhalÌ„sa Ì„Myth
  • States of Affairs 3: Warfare and Violence in the Colonial PeriodFrom Guerilla Operations to a Standing KhalÌ„sa Ì„Army
  • Constructing the Sikhs as a "Martial Race"
  • Anti-Colonial Violence and Nonviolence
  • Lines of Flight 2: Capturing and Performing Sovereign Violence 4
  • 4 "1984": Clash of Sovereignties?
  • States of Affairs 4 (kalÌ„)
  • Nonviolent Resistance Confronts Indian State Violence
  • "Systemic Violence": Recasting of Sikhs as the "Internal Enemy"
  • Rise of Bhindranwale
  • Lines of Flight 3 (akalÌ„)
  • The Untimely in "1984": Performing Sovereign Violence 5
  • References