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Wages of violence : naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay / Thomas Blom Hansen.
LIBRA HN690.B6 H36 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mumbai (India)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Mumbai (India).
- Mumbai (India)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Proper Name 1
- Chapter 1. Deccan Pastoral: The Making of an Ethnohistorical Imagination in Western India 20
- Chapter 2. Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire 37
- Chapter 3. "Say with Pride That We Are Hindus": Shiv Sena and Communal Populism 70
- Chapter 4. Thane City: The Making of Political Dadaism 101
- Chapter 5. Riots, Policing, and Truth Telling in Bombay 121
- Chapter 6. In the Muslim Mohalla 160
- Chapter 7. Living the Dream: Governance, Graft, and Goons 194
- Conclusion: Politics as Permanent Performance 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691088403
- 069108839X
- OCLC:
- 48110177
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