Kim Wagner - Between the Mutiny and Amritsar: The 'Kooka' Massacre of 1872

This talk explores the little-known history of the ‘Kooka’ Massacre, which echoed the Uprising of 1857 and foreshadowed the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, thus revealing something crucial about the forms and functions of fear and violence in British India.

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From this valuable research and establishing the continuity of colonial violence it can also been seen the repetition and similarities of colonial violence specifically in case of an assault on Darbar Sahib in June 1984 where tanks were seen in similar analogy to blowing of kukas by Canons at Malerkotla only differences was the target which was whole sikh body nation and ironically it was commissioned and carried out by inheritors of transfer of colonial power and who at one stage were colonised themselves. Dr. Joyce Pettigrew summarised it very well an Indian Army assault on darbar sahib and 80 other sovereign spaces of sikhs was not about eliminating a political figure or political movement but to suppress the culture of people, to strike blow at their spirit and self confidence.

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Melerkotla in shaeedh in 68 kookas , as number whatspp in pictures, as melerkotla shaeedh on bisan singh age 12 years

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I have no doubt the authenticity of this representation of this event as being biased to the British. Punjabi elder's would have a different version.... That never gets publicised. So we have to "accept" their version

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Dhan Baba Ram Singh