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Turmoil in Punjab : before and after blue star : an insider's story / Ramesh Inder Singh.
LIBRA DS480.853 .R3544 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramesh Inder Singh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--History--Golden Temple (Amritsar) Assault, 1984.
- India.
- Punjab (India)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Punjab (India).
- Sikhs--India--Punjab--History--20th century.
- Sikhs.
- Politics and government.
- India--Punjab.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 555 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), 1 folded map (colour) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gurugram, Haryana : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2022.
- Summary:
- Punjab went through a politically turbulent period between 1978 and 1994, triggered by the rift between Sikhs and Nirankaris, and fuelled by the operations Blue Star, Woodrose and Black Thunder I and II. Narrated as an eyewitness account by Ramesh Inder Singh, then the district magistrate of Amritsar, and later the chief secretary of Punjab, this book affords an insider's view of the events that ignited the strife and created the socio-political fault lines that divided Punjab in those years. It also describes the terrorist violence in Punjab, the state response to the military operations, the death of thousands of innocent citizens, the shocking assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the subsequent lynching of close to 3,000 Sikhs in the national capital of Delhi, which set in motion a devastating ethno-national movement in Punjab. publisher's website
- Contents:
- Part I
- 'Rumours have wings'
- On to Amritsar
- The trigger
- Bhindranwale arrested
- The administrative collapse
- The morcha
- The army marches on
- 'Who moved my army?'
- The grand mosque of Mecca
- Operation Blue Star: part I
- Operation Blue Star: part II
- Operation Blue Star: part III
- The desertions and the demurral
- Blue star: a blunder?
- The president and the prime minister arrive
- The treasure trove: Toshakhana
- Death and destruction
- Thefts, violence and shortages
- The purge
- The politics of Kar Sewa
- 'The president is guilty'
- The garrison state
- Indira's assassination
- The accord and Longowal's assassination
- The protocol blues
- Barnala becomes chief minister
- The Hindu exodus
- The Hindu terrorists
- Declaration of Khalistan
- Operation Black Dog Thunder II
- Mainstreaming the militants
- The war cops
- The foreign hand
- The fourth estate
- Militancy: the beginning and the end
- The diaspora
- Part II: the historical background
- Beginning of the divide
- Parting of the ways
- Institutionalization of Sikhism
- Linguistic dissensions
- 1947: Partition
- Punjabi Suba
- Post-Punjabi Suba
- Rise of the radicals
- Emergence of Bhindranwale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-536) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789354899065
- 9354899064
- OCLC:
- 1336009077
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