Moliner, Christine (2024) ‘It Is Baba Nanak who is running this protest’ : The Role of Sikhi in the Indian farmers' protest. In: The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020–2021 : Agrarian crisis, dissent and identity. Routledge, London, pp. 173-184. ISBN 9781003515050
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Abstract
This chapter delves into the role of religious beliefs, values and practices as a major source of inspiration and a tool of mobilisation in the Kisan Andolan. Sikh ethos has provided potent symbols, heroic figures drawn from past struggles as well as religious institutions and practices, such as langar (‘community kitchen’), that have been instrumental in sustaining the over-one-year-long struggle. Based on interviews conducted at the two protest sites of the Singhu and Tikri borders, as well as in Punjab and Haryana, this chapter borrows its analytical framework from a relatively under-explored field of research studying the role of religion in social change movements and provides an insight into how the broad array of religious resources were mobilised during the farmers’ protest.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Kisan Andolan | Sikh |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Public Administration Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Public Policy |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of International Affairs |
Depositing User: | Subhajit Bhattacharjee |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 09:12 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2024 10:24 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515050-17 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8157 |
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