The nation's tortured body : violence, representation, and the formation of a Sikh "diaspora"

The nation's tortured body : violence, representation, and the formation of a Sikh "diaspora" / Brian Keith Axel.

In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violen...

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Main Author: Axel, Brian Keith, 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sikh diaspora.
Sikhs > Foreign countries.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Autonomy and independence movements
Emigration and immigration
Sikh diaspora
Ausland
Diaspora > Religion
Sikh
Diaspora.
Punjab (India) > Emigration and immigration.
Punjab (India) > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
India > Punjab
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Promise and Threat
  • 1. Maharaja's Glorious Body
  • 2. Restricted Zone
  • 3. Tortured Body
  • 4. Glassy Junction
  • 5. Homeland.

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