Farmer's Agitation in Punjab: A Foray into the Cultural and Collective Memory of Sikh Community

The paper casts a glance at the farmer agitation that stirred North India and its significance for the Sikh community in the current cultural and political context. The paper takes recourse to the past of Sikh community, their repository of cultural memory and how cultural memory has been materialised in the form of books, pictures, sculptures, films that exude vital meanings from the perspective of a collective. In the process, the paper also raises vital questions about identity, both residual and emergent, in the Sikh community in the current landscape. The paper also looks at the history of protest music within the Punjabi Sikh community and cross examines that with the protest music from the Farmers' Protest. It also centres the cultural and creative responses generated during the protest as a symbol of dissent and hope.