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Title: Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues With Sikh Militants (Series in Contemporary Ethnography) by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood ISBN: 0-8122-1592-3 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Controversial topic gets an objective analysis
Comment: Growing up as a Sikh in America I was far removed from the atrocities perpetrated on the Sikh community in India. I distinctly remember as a child watching my parents and family desperately calling India to relatives to ensure their safety. Then in 1994 on my first visit (after 13 years), I discussed the topic of the November 1984 riots with some of my relatives. I found their accounts to just as harrowing. What I found more disturbing was the censorship of the issue there. No books were written or at least could be obtained in India. To my surprise I came across this book one day on Amazon and decided to get it. I found the book to be intelligent, meticulously researched, and above all engrossing. Although I am far from an extremist I can understand the extreme position of the these "freedom fighters" Cynthia Manmood presents interviews dispersed with her opinions many of which her subjects, I'm sure would disagree with. Recommended book for anyone interested in current Indian history as well as Sikh history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fighting for Faith and Nation
Comment: By far one of the best books I have ever read. This book is not for just Khalistanis, but for everyone who wants to know the truth. It is written by a non sikh and a non indian for that matter giving it a bi partisian view of the punjab situation past and present. It is a well written and easy to read book.
At times this book was so intense that I had to put it down so I would not over flow with emotion. This is not for the weak of heart, there are eye witness stories of militants and survivors of tragdey.
I have read other books on the punjab crisis but non come close to the one on one interviews that Cynthia has given. These stories will grip your heart and turn it around. Stories of brave Sikhs IN OUR TIME! Many times people think that the days of Baba Deep Singh are gone, but after reading this book you will know there are countless of those kinds of Sikhs, who are upholding what Sikhi really is, while we live in luxury and just proclaim our selves as sikhs with high heads. There heads pay for our heads tanding tall today.
We have been humiliated by the Government of India, and the only reason that we can even walk with our respect today is because of what the freedom fighters in punjab did for us.
Many times you will see non-sikhs wearing a kara, I once asked one of my south indian friends, why do you wear a kara, and his response was, this is the sign of bravery. What bravery? today we wear a kara and proclaim to be brave, and this comes from the lives others have given.
So many people dont know the truth, and even some of our own sikhs choose not to know the truth because they are fearful that it might make them uncomfortable in there 'comfortable' life styles. How can we live easily while the rest of our people suffer? This makes people take the easy way out, and decide, its better if i dont know, then to be made to feel guilty.
I think i have gone off on a different direction, but back to the book. If you know english, and are someone who proclaims to be a sikh, then you owe it to those people who died, to at least READ about them, and what they went threw.
They have given their today, so that Sikh Panth could have a prosperous future.
Put down the TV Remote and pick up this book.
For the sake of humanity READ THIS BOOK...
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The mission of the group is to inform people about Sikhs Struggle for Khalistan, and Injustice done to Sikhs and other minorities by INDIAN Govt.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible Un-Biased book.
Comment: After reading Operation Blue Star and other books relating to this general topic I finally came across one that was unbiased and took information from the actual 'militants'. This book will take you a while to read because of the way it was written, however I definetly recommend it to all those wishing to learn what is really going on in India.
I wish I could give this book to John Kerry and be read this you ignorant mofo. I'm referring to this Oklahoma speech during the democratic race on January 31st when he referred to Sikhs as terrorists in India.
This book was a very good and informing read.
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Title: Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Lincoln Keiser, R. Lincoln Keiser, Louise S. Spindler ISBN: 0030533325 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: United States and Coercive Diplomacy by Robert J. Art, Patrick M. Cronin ISBN: 1929223447 Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic ISBN: 0140286810 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz, Bartiz ISBN: 0801859530 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary ISBN: 0312421516 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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