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It is rare to come across a book that alters everything you thought you knew about a landmark event. This is such a book. Drawing on visual ethnography in and around the Darbar Sahib, Chopra crafts a compelling, almost poetic account of how Operation Bluestar in 1984 is remembered in Amritsar today. Analyzing how martyr photographs, souvenirs, buildings and frescoes are designed, placed, changed, moved or censored, this book is not merely indispensable to the study of Sikhism but also to the scholarship of religion and politics worldwide. -- Kathinka Froystad, University of Oslo

It is rare to come across a book that alters everything you thought you knew about a landmark event. This is such a book. Drawing on visual ethnography in and around the Darbar Sahib, Chopra crafts a compelling, almost poetic account of how Operation Bluestar in 1984 is remembered in Amritsar today. Analyzing how martyr photographs, souvenirs, buildings and frescoes are designed, placed, changed, moved or censored, this book is not merely indispensable to the study of Sikhism but also to the scholarship of religion and politics worldwide. -- Kathinka Froystad, University of Oslo This book is an interesting and significant exercise in visual anthropology of a traumatic event in the recent history of Amritsar, of Darbar Sahib, of the Sikhs there, and everywhere. It unmasks the dialectical undercurrents of the sacred (divine) and secular (bazaar), remembering and forgetting, past and present, memory and event, amidst attendant forces of religion, politics, and economy. -- Birinder Pal Singh, Punjabi University

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Radhika Chopra is associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Delhi.

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