'A Sikh Manifesto?: A Reading of Ghadar Literature,' Panjab Past and Present, April 2013, 44[1], pp 61-81., 2013
This paper aims to explore the Ghadar poetry in two ways; first it tries to locate its message an... more This paper aims to explore the Ghadar poetry in two ways; first it tries to locate its message and explores this poetry as part of the martyrdom tradition among the Sikhs. Although common knowledge among commentators that most of the Ghadar poetry is the work of Sikhs who wrote in the folklore tradition, they have not paid sufficient attention to the specific cultural and religious milieu of poets as its composers. While commentators have rightly emphasised how poetry became a vehicle for mobilisation, they have not paid close attention to its popularity based upon poets’ skilful use of familiar phraseology from the Sikh past. Second, the paper seeks to know how these Sikh poets came to imagine India as their motherland. Most commentaries just assume that they were ‘patriotic Indians,’ thus avoiding the problematic issue of their provincial identity and how it was negotiated to arrive at a transcendent ‘Indian’ identity.
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towards the persistent dilemma of the Sikh elite as it makes sense of various compulsions, choices, and strategies in the postcolonial Indian polity.
towards the persistent dilemma of the Sikh elite as it makes sense of various compulsions, choices, and strategies in the postcolonial Indian polity.
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