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

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Pheeta
 
Regretfully, I cannot.
 
Too much technicality of intellectuality in it, for me to digest.
 
Kshmendra

--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Remembering Chandreshkhar Azad on his birth anniversary
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Jeebesh" <jeebesh at sarai.net>, "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 12:43 AM


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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