The Re-Haunting of Indian Punjab

The Stanford Human Rights Center presents Mallika Kaur, lawyer and lecturer at Berkeley Law School, as a part of the Partition at 70 and Human Rights lecture series. Only three decades after its bloody Partition of 1947, Indian Punjab spiraled dangerously into a decade of deadly armed conflict between 1984-1994 in which tens of thousands were killed. This talk will trace a pending, seminal legal case that could be the very first to ascribe criminal liability for mass, secret cremations during this conflict. Through the stories of tenacious litigants and human rights defenders, and related religious, gender, and class dynamics, Mallika will discuss how Punjab’s conflict has been at once hyper-visible and invisible. Lunch will be provided. 

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