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Punjab (India) --- Economic policy. --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India)

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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 violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspora, or histories of displacement, that have created particular kinds of places—homelands.Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted by Axel at several sites in India, England, and the United States, the text delineates a theoretical trajectory for thinking about the proliferation of diaspora studies and area studies in America and England. After discussing this trajectory in relation to the colonial and postcolonial movement of Sikhs, Axel analyzes the production and circulation of images of Sikhs around the world, beginning with visual representations of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh ruler of Punjab, who died in 1893. He argues that imagery of particular male Sikh bodies has situated—at different times and in different ways—points of mediation between various populations of Sikhs around the world. Most crucially, he describes the torture of Sikhs by Indian police between 1983 and the present and discusses the images of tortured Sikh bodies that have been circulating on the Internet since 1996. Finally, he returns to questions of the homeland, reflecting on what the issues discussed in The Nation's Tortured Body might mean for the ongoing fight for Khalistan.Specialists in anthropology, history, cultural studies, diaspora studies, and Sikh studies will find much of interest in this important work.

Sikh diaspora. --- Sikhs --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Diaspora, Sikh --- East Indian diaspora --- Human geography --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- Punjab (India) --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Emigration and immigration. --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements.

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This title provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on the 'patterns of political leadership'.

Sikhs --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic identity. --- Punjab (India) --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Politics and government --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- National movements --- Polemology --- India --- Insurgency --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Civil war --- Political crimes and offenses --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- Geschichte 1978-1997

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In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.

Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- History. --- Punjab (India) --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Politics and government --- India --- History

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India is home to the world's largest hungry population and has a long way to go before it is anywhere near the mammoth task of achieving the United Nations' goal of ending hunger in 2030. It is ironic that this book raises the issue of 'Hunger' in a state where it is least expected. Punjab is a state with mountains of food grains and overflowing godowns, with highest yields, and largest area under irrigation. Not only that, it is the Green Revolution state of India, that has played the most prominent role in helping India achieve its goal of food self-sufficiency. By investigating the hydra-headed concept of food security in Indian Punjab, this book brings to fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship between food security and economy, ecology, and state policy.

Food security --- Food supply --- Punjab (India) --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Single cell proteins --- Food deserts --- Food insecurity --- Insecurity, Food --- Security, Food --- Human security --- Panjab (India) --- Pañjāba (India) --- Пенджаб (India) --- East Punjab (India) --- Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Land use, Rural