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The Khalistan conspiracy : a former R&AW officer unravels the path to 1984

Title: The Khalistan conspiracy : a former R&AW officer unravels the path to 1984 / G.B.S. Sidhu.
Author: Sidhu, G. B. S.
Publication: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

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xxiv, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm

Summary

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a timeline that moves from seven years before to a decade after 1984, the book strives to answer critical questions that continue to linger until today.

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Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269).

Contents

Canada and the Sikh diaspora in the late 1970's -- Punjab in the lae 1970s and my return to headquarters -- The rise of Bhindranwale (1980-81) -- Negotiated solution: a prolonged charade? -- Indira Gandhi's 1982 US state visit -- A state of controlled chaos -- My third visit to the US and Canada -- The aborted Heliborne commando operation -- P.C. Alexander, R.N. Kao and B. Raman -- Operation Blue Star -- India Gandhi's assassination and the anti-Sikh pogrom -- The aftermath -- The way forward.

ISBN

9789390327720
9390327725
9789390327737 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020330805

OCLC

1206222589
on1206222589
SCSB-14400638

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library