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Published: 03 May 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002123-067
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0212-3
Published: 27 March 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389835-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8983-5
Published: 01 January 1995
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378662-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7866-2
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
Published: 01 January 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396062-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9606-2
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
Book Chapter

By Amitava Kumar
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7539-5
... Kashmir Afzal Guru Tabassum Guru collaborators ...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375395-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7539-5
... In this chapter, the author narrates a visit to Sopore in Kashmir to interview the wife of Afzal Guru who was on death row after being convicted of terrorism. Guru was later hanged. The chapter describes the reality of life under military occupation—and the reality is that nearly everyone...
Book Chapter

By Amitava Kumar
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7539-5
.... Train stories writing on trains Patna Metro North Poughkeepsie In this chapter, the author narrates a visit to Sopore in Kashmir to interview the wife of Afzal Guru who was on death row after being convicted of terrorism. Guru was later hanged. The chapter describes the reality of life under...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... Growing out of a powerful anti-Brahmanical heterodox tradition in northern India in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Sikh sect of Guru Nanak and his successors gradually evolved into an organized religious movement in Punjab. It became a rallying point for untouchables and members...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 08 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024460-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9375-6
... of the missing film. The novel is peopled by daemons and gurus that are male and patriarchal, but it is constructed by its female author using an old woman narrator, Ling/Cassandra, who details history with the wry spin that wise old women often use to set history straight or undercut official pretensions...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... that pushed Piro into recounting the particular incident that she perceived as transformative in her life. She used her writing to justify her presence in the establishment and her closeness to her guru. The chapter unpacks the meanings of her metaphorical language, what she says, what she leaves unsaid...
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... of her move from a brothel to a monastic establishment created a situation that pushed Piro into recounting the particular incident that she perceived as transformative in her life. She used her writing to justify her presence in the establishment and her closeness to her guru. The chapter unpacks...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... invisibility. Bhagya Reddy Varma Adi-Andhra Mahajana Sabha Hyderabad Central Adi-Hindu Social Service League Adi-Andhra Maha Sabha Growing out of a powerful anti-Brahmanical heterodox tradition in northern India in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Sikh sect of Guru Nanak and his...