The Other Side of Terror

Nivedita Majumdar is Assistant Professor, Department of English, John Jay College, City University of New York.

The strength of the volume lies primarily in the skilful arrangement of material. The introduction is pithy and well focusedm opening with an historically placed reading of teror, then engaging with political and theoretical perspectives on violent dissent that are carried into an overview of terrorism in South Asia.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: FREEDOM AND TERROR: -BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY, ANANDAMATH (EXCERPTS); AUROBINDO GHOSE, KARMAYOGIN: EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS (EXCERPTS); BHAGAT SINGH, 'ASSEMBLY BOMB CASE: STATEMENT IN THE SESSION COURT STATEMENT BEFORE THE LAHORE HIGH COURT BENCH'; SARAT CHANDRA CHOTTOPADHYAY, THE RIGHT OF WAY (EXCERPTS); RABINDRANATH TAGORE, FOUR CHAPTERS (EXCERPTS); BAL GANGADHAR TILAK, 'THE COUNTRY'S MISFORTUNE'; EDMUND CANDLER, 'SIRI RAM-REVOLUTIONIST'; SECTION II: REVOLUTION AND TERROR-INDIA: MAHASHWETA DEVI, MOTHER OF 1084 (EXCERPTS); TARIT KUMAR, 'WE NEVER WANTED '; SAROJ DUTTA, 'THE NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON'; BANI BASU, THE ENEMY WITHIN (EXCERPTS); ASHIM RAY, 'AUNI'; NEPAL: SAMRAT UPADHYAY, 'A REFUGEE'; LI ONESTO, DISPATCHES FROM THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN NEPAL; SUSHMA JOSHI, 'WAITING FOR THE WAR TO END'; PANKAJ MISHRA, 'THE PEOPLE'S WAR'; TENZIN TSUNDUE, 'I AM A TERRORIST'; SECTION III: IDENTITY AND TERROR-SRI LANKA: JEAN ARASANAYAGAM, 'IN THE GARDEN SECRETLY'; JESURASA, 'YOUR FATE TOO'; CHERAN, 'AMMA DO NOT WEEP'; A. SIVANADAN, WHEN MEMORY DIES (EXCERPTS); PUNJAB: PASH, 'BEGGING FOR ALMS OF FAITH'; ANITA AGNIHOTRI, 'ENCIRCLEMENT'; MOHAN BHANDARI, 'COMB YOUR HAIR, MY DEAR!'; KHUSHWANT SINGH, MY BLEEDING PUNJAB (EXCERPTS); KARTAR SINGH DUGGAL, 'HER DUE OF A DAUGHTER'; THE NORTH-EAST: SANJIB BARUAH, 'A NEW POLITICS OF RACE: INDIA AND ITS NORTH-EAST; 'ROBIN S. NGANGOM, 'NATIVE LAND'; NIRANJAN CHAKMA, 'WHEN DEBATE HAS NO ROOM'; ROBIN S. NGANGOM, 'POETRY IN A TIME OF TERROR'; SAMMER TANTI, 'GO GIVE THEM THE NEWS'; MAMANG DAI, 'THE SORROW OF WOMEN'; BIMAL SINGHA, 'BASAN'S GRANDMOTHER'; KYNPHAM SING NONGKYNRIH, 'LAWSOHTUN'; MITRA PHUKAN , 'HOPE'; KYNPHAM SING NONGKYNRIH, 'FOREBODINGS'; KASHMIR: NEERJA MATTOO, 'THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S COLLEGE IN KASHMIR'; SOMNATH ZUTSHI, 'WHO ARE THESE DURYODHANS?'; ANEES HAMADANI, 'THE BURNT-OUT SUN'; SHEBA CHHACHHI, 'FINDING FACE: IMAGES OF WOMEN FROM THE KASHMIR VALLEY'; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; COPYRIGHT STATEMENT