In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend
their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen
army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile
government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United
States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only
beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan
national history. In "Arrested Histories," the anthropologist and
historian Carole McGranahan shows how and why histories of this
resistance army are "arrested" and explains the ensuing
repercussions for the Tibetan refugee community.
Drawing on rich ethnographic and historical research, McGranahan
tells the story of the Tibetan resistance and the social processes
through which this history is made and unmade, and lived and
forgotten in the present. Fulfillment of veterans' desire for
recognition hinges on the Dalai Lama and "historical arrest," a
practice in which the telling of certain pasts is suspended until
an undetermined time in the future. In this analysis, struggles
over history emerge as a profound pain of belonging. Tibetan
cultural politics, regional identities, and religious commitments
cannot be disentangled from imperial histories, contemporary
geopolitics, and romanticized representations of Tibet. Moving
deftly from armed struggle to nonviolent hunger strikes, and from
diplomatic offices to refugee camps, "Arrested Histories" provides
powerful insights into the stakes of political engagement and the
cultural contradictions of everyday life.
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