Text of leaflet released in Delhi by Ad Hoc Committee For Inquiry into Kanpur Massacre on the 1977 Police repression on textile workers at the Swadeshi Mill in Kanpur, India.
Text of leaflet released in Delhi by Ad Hoc Committee For Inquiry into Kanpur Massacre on the 1977 Police repression on textile workers at the Swadeshi Mill in Kanpur, India.
This article focuses on the great massacres that occurred in the huge territory of the Punjab which, in the time before the partition of India, encompassed the present-day federal states of Pakistan Punjab and Indian Punjab, as well as a number of then semi-autonomous princely states. As the violence extended more and more broadly and viciously in this site of political partition, the outgoing British authorities themselves, as will be shown below, struggled to define what was happening, what label to place upon it. Was what was happening simply a series of riots or massacres or a “communal war of secession?†The word genocide did not come to the minds of any observers at the time. Yet, there were substantial genocidal aspects to what finally developed. Rather than attempt to define and label these great killings precisely, it is more helpful to think of forms of collective violence as placed along a continuum of overlapping categories that range from riots to pogroms, massacres to genocides. Not only do these categories overlap, but they masquerade for each other, hide behind each other. Pogroms planned and directed by states or political organiza- tions are made to appear as spontaneous riots.
Autobiography, as a genre of writing, has formed an important site of feminist engagement with dominant theories of the self. Awareness that the subject of autobiography, politicised as it is, also remains fully mediated by discourse has alerted feminists to ways in which discursive position and material or historical location are mutually implicated in autobiography. This essay focuses on the reception of autobiography and its politics by examining two autobiographies by Malayalee women and the controversies around them. The aim is to (i) understand these within the history of the discursive shaping of gender in Malayalee modernity, (ii) investigate the specific contexts of discussion that shaped reception of these texts, and (iii) examine political stakes in life-writing for female authors of autobiographies differently located.
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Sanghathana In Harda And Betul Districts, M.P. (June 2007)
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