State, violence, and legitimacy in India / Santana Khanikar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khanikar, Santana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police misconduct--India--Delhi.

Police misconduct.

Political violence--India--Delhi.

Political violence.

Legitimacy of governments--India--Delhi.

Legitimacy of governments.

Legitimacy of governments--India--Lakhipathar.

Abuse of administrative power--India--Lakhipathar.

Abuse of administrative power.

Politics and government.

United Liberation Front of Assam.

India. Army.

India.

Lakhipathar (India)--Politics and government.

Lakhipathar (India).

India--Assam.

India--Delhi.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Study conducted in Delhi and Lakhipathar village of Tinsukia District, Assam, India.

Contents:

Introduction : probing state-legitimacy in the context of violence

Everyday policing and legality

Torture, notions of "justice," and petty sovereigns

Spaces of abjection and a "civic-disciplining" model of policing

(Mis)use, agency, and acceptance : interactions with police violence

Of blessings and banes : people, ULFA, and the state of Lakhipathar

ULFA in Lakhipathar : perspectives and perceptions

Bearing witness : memories, war, and life in Lakhipathar

The making of an authority : the state versus the non-state

Conclusion : produced belongings, imagined geographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780199485550

0199485550

OCLC:

1042084878

Publisher Number:

99980210889