TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of intimacy
T2 - (RE) thinking 1984
AU - Ahluwalia, Pal
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The year 1984 is deeply ingrained in the collective Sikh memory. The attack on the Sri Harmandir Sahib and the subsequent pogrom in Delhi fundamentally challenged the manner in which the Sikh population in India and the diaspora engaged with the state. Indeed, these two events represented the culmination of a first phase of a war that began in the 1970s and continued well into the 1990s with the clearest effect on the Sikhs in Punjab. Nevertheless, 1984 continues to evoke a series of questions that are addressed in this paper. It examines how lives become precarious and grievable as well as how societies descend into barbarism. Finally, it seeks to understand how we memorialise grievable lives.
AB - The year 1984 is deeply ingrained in the collective Sikh memory. The attack on the Sri Harmandir Sahib and the subsequent pogrom in Delhi fundamentally challenged the manner in which the Sikh population in India and the diaspora engaged with the state. Indeed, these two events represented the culmination of a first phase of a war that began in the 1970s and continued well into the 1990s with the clearest effect on the Sikhs in Punjab. Nevertheless, 1984 continues to evoke a series of questions that are addressed in this paper. It examines how lives become precarious and grievable as well as how societies descend into barbarism. Finally, it seeks to understand how we memorialise grievable lives.
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U2 - 10.1080/17448727.2010.530508
DO - 10.1080/17448727.2010.530508
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960645296
SN - 1744-8727
VL - 6
SP - 105
EP - 117
JO - Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory
JF - Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory
IS - 2
ER -