Jagtar Singh (120 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. This book tells the story of the militant struggle in Punjab that was triggered by the events in 1978 and took the lives of about 50000 people during the period of about a decade and a half. The spectre of its revival continues to haunt the political and security establishment in India. The job of the journalist is to tell the story on the basis of available facts. This book is the first such attempt to tell the people as to waht sparked this struggle, who were the people in the beginning and how this discource shaped up as fight for a separate Sikh state. This story of Punjab is based upon the interaction with the people who were part of that struggle. The effort has been to cross-check the information that forms the basis of the narrative. The dynamics of the involvement of pakistan has been revealed by talking to the people who had stayed there for long. Historically, the Sikh religio-political discourse is synergy of both the peaceful and the militant struggles from the earlier days. Besides going to the roots of the present militant struggle, this book also details the peaceful struggle of which the Shiromani Gurdwaara Parbandhak Committee is the outcome. What is common in the peaceful as well as the militant religio-political discourse is the brutal state repression. Only selective militant actions have been taken up. These were the incidents that shaped the discource at crucial moments. This book shatters several myths about the struggle and the players involved.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Introduction 1 Under army occupation 2 Quest for martyrdom 3 The build up 4 At war with India 5 Call for armed struggle 6 Media and Akalis 7 Last meeting with Sant Bhindranwale 8 Courage of conviction 9 The retribution 10 The betrayal 11Akali legitimacy to Bluestar 12 Beginning of the end 13 Design exposed 14 Heading towards insurgency 15 Akalis back militant struggle 16 The fall 17 Akali politics redefined 18 Back to power politics 19 Sikh agenda and Akali Dal 20 Ambition to ruleThis book was conceived when Jagtar Singh as a journalist working with The Indian Express went to the Darbar Sahib complex as part of the team of journalists from Chandigarh flown to the war zone by the government during Operation Bluestar the army action in the Golden Temple complex at the holiest of the holy shrine of the Sikhs at Amritsar The Holy Granth Sahib installed on the first floor of the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine was in disorder covered by a blood soaked white sheet Placing the holy book in order was a trauma of the authorJagtar Singh had joined the Indian Express in 1978 a few days after the Sikh-Nirankari clash to which militancy in this state is traced to be transferred to Amritsar in March the next year This provided the opportunity to observe the situation virtually as an insider Though he returned to Chandigarh after two years the author covered almost every major development in Amritsar till Operation Bluestar The visits to Amritsar were frequent till militancy petered out The author was witness to the rise of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale with whom the interaction was frequent most of the times off the record Such meetings provided the much needed deeper insight to the evolving situation The last one-to-one off the record meeting lasting about an hour with him was May 25 when the army had already moved into Punjab for the decisive actionThis book combines both the personal experience during the period Jagtar Singh worked with the Indian Express and the developments and their interpretation spanning about 25 years covering the two extremes in the Sikh political matrix Some of the resource material relating to the Sikh politics is exclusive appearing for the first time in this book jacket 520 pp.…