[Reader-list] Remembering Chandreshkhar Azad on his birth anniversary

[Pheeta Ram]

Dear Kshmendra

Thank you for the links. Can't appreciate Jeebesh enough for such an
insightful question. However, i would like to foreground
Pinney's phrasing of the reason: "These serve as markers to differentiate
identical physiognomies. Their identical faces suggest a somatic
transperency and interchangeability of identity grounded in the
inconsequentiality of Azad's Brahman and Bhagat's Jat Sikh identities in the
face of their mutial Indian-ness."
Can anyone of you paraphrase it for me in a simple language?
Thanks in advance.

Pheeta



On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Jeebesh
>
> Interesting question. I searched for clues. I guess you already knew the
> answer.
>
> 1.
> Pg 175 of 'Photos of the Gods': the printed image and political struggle in
> India By Christopher Pinney
>
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=8hhXq7hpzSwC&pg=PA175&dq=photos+of+the+gods+wristwatch&hl=en&ei=q3dNTO4oyf6xBoaQ8UU&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
>
> 2.
> Reading between the Frames - Burden (and Freedom of Photography) By Vinay
> Lal
>
>
> http://merton.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/reading%20between%20frames.pdf
>
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
> --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Remembering Chandreshkhar Azad on his birth
> anniversary
> To: "Sarai Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 12:14 PM
>
>
> dear Pawan,
>
> Would you know why all calender and school chart photograph of Azad
> has a watch prominently located in his wrist.?
>
> warmly
> jeebesh
>
>
>
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