“…It is pertinent to note, as Priya (2015Priya ( , 2018 has emphasized, that with the paradigm shift in the study of trauma related to violence (toward situating the experience of trauma and healing within the post-disaster sociopolitical and cultural contexts), a shift in methodology has also been observed in recent decades. Besides ethnography, grounded theory, semi-structured interviews, case studies, word association tests, and draw-and-tell conversation techniques, other innovative qualitative methodologies, such as documentary analysis and the analysis of relevant newspaper articles and books, have been adopted (Gupta et al, 2019;Priya, 2004Priya, , 2012bViswambharan & Priya, 2016). This led us to a search for books and articles written on the survivors' and their subsequent generation's experiences in the context of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in line with the use of already-published narratives in qualitative research (Ruggiano & Perry, 2019).…”