Examining the growth of a nationalist sentiment among the Sikh community in the Punjab, this study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian state in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Templeat Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book reveals the role in this movement of a section of young, semi-literate Sikh peasantry who were disaffected by the Green Revolution and...