Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations

Michael Nijhawan is a Social Anthropologist and Associate Professor in Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. His publications include Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics (with R.Hadj-Moussa, 2014), Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (with K. Pemberton, 2009) and Dhadi Darbar: Religion, Violence and the Performance of Sikh History (2006).

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Violent Event and the Temporal Dimensions of Diaspora.- Chapter 2: Religious Subjectivity in Spaces of the Otherwise.- Chapter 3: The Asylum Court’s Radiating Effect on Religion.- Chapter 4: Fabricating Suspicious Religious Others.- Chapter 5: Daughters and Sons of ’84: Dissenting Performances of Labor and Love.- Chapter 6: The Ordinary and Prophetic Voice of Postmemory Work.- Postscript.