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

[Inder Salim]

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may be this opens the debate about markers,  wrist watch on azad is just one

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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