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Amritsar 1984
- A City Remembers
Af: Radhika Chopra
Engelsk Hardback
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Amritsar 1984
- A City Remembers
Af: Radhika Chopra
Engelsk Hardback
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This book explores a traumatic event known throughout India as Operation Bluestar. During the Operation, the Indian army entered one of Sikhism’s most sacred shrines, the Darbar Sahib in the city of Amritsar, to dislodge militants who had taken shelter within. Among the many who died during Operation Bluestar was the militant leader, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who is now remembered and commemorated as a martyr. Sikhs revere their martyrs. Images and religious souvenirs of martyrs share space with posters and portraiture of the ten Sikh Gurus. The visual idiom is a key form of remembering the modern martyrs of Operation Bluestar. Despite the emotive imagery, a tension exists between the need to forget the violence of militancy and remembrance of martyrs. It is this tension that shapes accounts of “what happened” in the city of Amritsar in 1984 before and after Operation Bluestar. But “what happened” is an account that changes over time and between storytellers. Each account might have a little omission, a small part that is overlooked, ignored, or sometimes laid to rest. Memory has the quality of bringing the past into the present, but with deletions that suit the storyteller and audience. This book traverses the terrain of memory, hollowed out by little bits of forgetting.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
132
ISBN-13:
9781498571050
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1498571050
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Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2018
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2018
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