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A recent study of Sikh singing and performance in which
martyrological themes resonate is Michael Nijhawan’s Dhadhi Darbar:
Religion, Violence, and The Performance of Sikh History (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2006).
62 For Bhai Maharaj Singh’s memory and its articulation by Sikhs in the
cultural politics of Singapore see Van Dusenbury, ‘Socializing Sikhs in
Singapore: Soliciting the State’s Support,’ in Pashaura Singh and N.G.
Barrier (eds.), The Transmission of Sikh Heritage in the Diaspora (New
Delhi: Manohar, 1996), pp. 116 ff. Mewa Singh’s history and martyrdom
celebration is noted in Hugh Johnston, The Voyage of the Komagata
Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar (Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1979), pp. 129-33. The use of Udham Singh’s memory
is noted in my ‘Contested Nationalisms; Negotiated Terrains: The Way
Sikhs Remember Udham Singh “Shahid” (1899-1940),’ in Modern Asian
Studies 36:4 (2002), pp. 827-70.
63 For example Brian Axel, The Nation’s Tortured Body and Sumathi
Ramaswamy, ‘Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern
India,’ in the Journal of Asian Studies 67(3) (August 2008), pp. 819-53.