Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict The Wheat Fields Still Whisper /

• Main Author: Kaur, Mallika (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: History.; Oral history.; Asia-History.; Peace.; Women.; Popular Science in History.; Oral History.; History of South Asia.; Conflict Studies.; Women's Studies.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Proem
• 2. Earth, Water, Pyre
• 3. Monu's Mummy
• 4. Jamuns
• 5. Next, Kill All the Lawyers
• 6. Holy of the Holy
• 7. Two Urns
• 8. Guavas and Gaslighting
• 9. Glasnost
• 10. Ten Thousand Pairs of Shoes.