Full Description
Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across sites—law, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so on—to explore the normal as well as the exceptional. The case studies in this book are all drawn from the Indian experience. This volume aims towards a coherent and more nuanced understanding of violence that moves beyond the episodic to the systemic, structural levels of society and consciousness.
Contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Habitations of Violence in India by Kalpana Kannabiran
I VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICAL
Violence and the Political: Thinking across Traditions by Aditya Nigam
Violence and the Colonial Order: India under British Rule by David Arnold
State Formation, Minoritization, and Violence in Postcolonial India by T.K. Oommen
Muslim Citizenship, Identity, and Violence in India by Abdul Shaban
II WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CASTE?
Caste Violence against Dalits: Causes and Remedy by Anand Teltumbde
Violence and Politics: Two Cases of Dalit Women in Uttar Pradesh by Badri Narayan
's Indictment of the Hindu Social Order by V. Geetha
III GENEALOGIES OF GENDER, POWER, AND RESISTANCE
The Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai by Shilpa Phadke
Witches: Through Changing Contexts Women Remain the Target by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, and Shivani Satija
Unearthing a Terrible Beauty: Violence and the Politics of Choices in Assam by Sanjay Barbora
IV THE IMPUNITY GRID
Indian Maoism: As Victim and Agency of Violence by Sumanta Banerjee
The Violence of Postcolonial Spaces: Kudankulam by Itty Abraham
On Structural Violence by Akhil Gupta
The Economics of Violence and the Violence of Economics by Jayati Ghosh
