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Violence and democracy in India / edited by Amrita Basu and Srirupa Roy.
Van Pelt Library HN690.Z9 V5747 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--India.
- Violence.
- India.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Social conditions.
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta ; New York, NY : Seagull Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Violence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extreme violence of riots, pogroms, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the ordinary, everyday, often invisible structures and practices of violence in India. Usually, these exceptional, extreme moments of state-sponsored violence, are treated as aberrations, quite separate from the everyday world of politics-as-usual, particularly when the norm in question is that of liberal democracy. In contrast, this volume explores the ways in which democracy enables violence and how violence in turn transforms the practices and pursuit of democracy.
- Contents:
- Beyond Exceptionalism: Violence and Democracy in India / Amrita Basu, Srirupa Roy
- The Wagah Syndrome: Territorial Roots of Contemporary Violence in South Asia / Willem van Schendel 36
- A Slap from the Hindu Nation / Raka Ray 83
- Rape and Murder in Gujarat: Violence against Muslim Women in the Struggle for Hindu Supremacy / Martha C. Nussbaum 101
- Powers of the Weak: Fear and Violation in the Discourse of Communalism / Usha Zacharias, J. Devika 123
- Once, in Rangdum: Formations of Violence and Peace in Ladakh / Ravina Aggarwal 148
- Media, Terror, and Islam: The Shifting Media Landscape and Culture Talk in India / Paula Chakravartty, Srinivas Lankala 173
- Mass Violence and the Wheels of Indian (In)Justice / Zoya Hasan 198
- Communalizing the Criminal or Criminalizing the Communal? Locating Minority Politics in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 190542230X
- 9781905422302
- 1905422318
- 9781905422319
- OCLC:
- 85774321
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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