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_aEconomy, culture, and human rights: turbulence in Punjab, India and beyond/ _cPritam Singh. |
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_aGurgaon : _bThree Essays Collective, _c2010. |
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_axix, 249 p. ; _c23 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-234) and index. | ||
| 505 | _a1 Theoretical perspectives and personal experiences Contesting perspectives on human rights - The context of India and Punjab - Personal experience of human rights violations - Reflections on human rights and torture:' Towards a critical approach 2 The political economy of centralisation in India; Shaping the macro-environment for human rights Historical background to the centralisation debate — The troika of capital, state and the nation: The phase of planned capitalist development — The new economic policy of 1991 - Political, economic and cultural implications of the centralisation process - Conclusion 3 Economic interests, political culture and human rights in Indo-British relations Political parties in Britain - House of Commons debate - Economic and political interests of Britain - Conclusion 4 Historical conduits of the political culture of Punjab The duality of Punjabs location in India - The birth of Sikhism and its early guru period (1469-1708) - The rise of the Sikhs to political power (1708-99) - The empire of the Sikhs (1799—1849) — Punjab under British rule (1849—1947): Emergence of new conflicts - The struggle for a Punjabi-speaking state (1947—66) — Punjab—centre conflict (1966-84) leading to Operation Blue Star - Conclusion 5 Actions and reactions of 1984: State repression, militancy and human rights Alienation of the Sikhs and shaq^ening of the Hindu-Sikh divide - Political moves towards reconciliation - Akali Dal election victory and the semblance of democratic revival - Failure of the Punjab Accord, the rise ofSikh militancy and its suppression - The zigzag return of democratic politics - Conclusion 6 Rural capitalism, religious revivalism and fractured resistance Religion and the left - Capitalist modernisation and religious revivalism - Bhindranwale as a social reformer - Religion, the left and the culture of the oppressed - Contesting tendencies in Sikh revivalism - The Punjabi left and Sikli revivalism; Common ground of human rights - Conclusion 7 Combating sectarianism and instrumentalism in the human rights praxis in Punjab Sectarianism and its application in the context of human rights - Post-colonia' Punjab from the perspective of human rights - The emergence of human rights organisations in Punjab - Modes of articulation of sectarianism in human rights - Sectarianism in the human rights praxis of political parties - The Maoist Naxalite period: Responses of the political parties - Politics of human rights organisations - The period of the Sikli militant movement from 1978 onwards - Modes of articulation of sectarianism in the human rights praxis during the period of the Sikh militant movement - Some general points as a critique of sectarianism in human rights praxis 8 Conclusions | ||
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_aPunjab (India) _xSocial life and customs _928372 |
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