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Violence Studies (OIP) brings together essays that conceptualise the way violence is understood in contemporary Indian society.
List of 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
- 'A Part Apart': Dr Ambedkar'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
About the author
Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor & Regional Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She was Professor of Sociology and part of the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Her work has focussed on understanding the social foundations of non-discrimination, structural violence, and questions of constitutionalism and social justice in India. Author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution(2012), her writing straddles law and gender studies, law and literature and human rights. She is recipient of the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in the discipline of law.
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Violence Studies (OIP) brings together essays that conceptualise the way violence is understood in contemporary Indian society.
