Abstract
ABSTRACTSpectres of the 1984 violence against Sikhs and Ahmadis in the Indian and Pakistan border areas of Punjab are fascinating mediums for Michael Nijhawan’s new book, The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory and Agency. Though violence against Sikhs and Ahmadis had taken place before, Nijhawan suggests the scale of violence in 1984 altered social imaginaries and biographies of migration, which youths inherit and de-inherit in today’s precarious diasporas. Beyond ‘postmemory,’ this essay considers memories of violence in mediated messianic spatiotemporalities, ethical forms of agency, and spiritual renewal, which emerge so strongly in Nijhawan's research.
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