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Sikhs - The Untold Agony of 1984 Paperback – 14 August 2019

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I want sukh, peace, said Shanti. She had watched her three sons, one of them an infant, and husband torched alive by marauding mobs. The sixty-five-year-old Sikh woman from a west Delhi slum said that the police had inserted a stick inside her.

The distraught man spoke a single sentence but repeated it twice in chaste Punjabi: ‘Please give me a turban. I want nothing else.’

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984, 2,733 Sikhs were burnt, stabbed, beaten and otherwise hunted to their deaths across Delhi. Many of them were children. Several hundreds were killed elsewhere in the country. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay uses personal histories to expose the truth of a state-sponsored riot: the thousands of lives that were destroyed, the cruel apathy of subsequent governments, the lack of reparations, the denial of justice. Poignant and raw, Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984 lays bare the innards of one of the most shameful episodes of sectarian violence in post-Independent India.

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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay began his career in journalism in the early 1980s and is best known for his reportage on the rise of Hindu organisations and their politics. He writes columns for several newspapers and web portals, and is also a well-known face on Indian television news channels as a political commentator.

His other books include the best-selling Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times and The RSS: Icons of the Hindu Right. An unabashed college drop-out, Nilanjan lives with his Family on the edge of the Indian capital.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tranquebar (14 August 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9388754352
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9388754354
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 160 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 1.22 x 21.6 cm
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A decent account of the genocide and aftermath
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A decent account of the genocide and aftermath
This is a decently written account of the genocide, what led to it and the aftermath. The horrible incident that took place in this country is well described by the author but from the perspectives of only a few. This book will raise emotions as it unfolds the events. More of description than analysis. The author has not taken a stance here but explained the situations and events.
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  • Reviewed in India on 15 December 2021
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    Ethnic violence has always been the scourge of human society. A must read book to understand the anatomy of ethnic violence in genera and violence against Sikhs in particular.
    Based on extensive qualitative research and ethnographic interviews.
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  • Reviewed in India on 20 September 2018
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    This is a decently written account of the genocide, what led to it and the aftermath. The horrible incident that took place in this country is well described by the author but from the perspectives of only a few. This book will raise emotions as it unfolds the events. More of description than analysis. The author has not taken a stance here but explained the situations and events.
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    A decent account of the genocide and aftermath

    Reviewed in India on 20 September 2018
    This is a decently written account of the genocide, what led to it and the aftermath. The horrible incident that took place in this country is well described by the author but from the perspectives of only a few. This book will raise emotions as it unfolds the events. More of description than analysis. The author has not taken a stance here but explained the situations and events.
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  • Reviewed in India on 21 August 2018
    Such an important chapter of our post independence history and yet I doubt everyone is aware. This book is a chilling account of how tables can turn and knives can come out on the name of religion.
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  • Reviewed in India on 24 May 2019
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    Good read of what really happened. Disturbing truth of how things and not considering humanity. Truth unfolded completely as-is. Must read
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  • Reviewed in India on 21 August 2019
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    It’s a disturbing reading how a political outfit ordained criminal gangs to carry out retribution. Their complicity in the organized crime and politics aftermath has gone unpunished.
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  • Reviewed in India on 22 December 2018
    An excellent narrative of the contemporary criminal history of political party. Some justice is awarded more dreaded criminals are moving free.
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  • Reviewed in India on 8 August 2018
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    It gives the reader a acquaintance of the happening of the horrendous pogrom in 1984. A good read. A short book but informative .
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  • Reviewed in India on 15 July 2016
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    Accurately dipicts the scenario which led to one of the worst pogroms of our country.
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