Violence Studies OIP [Paperback]

Violence Studies (OIP) brings together essays that conceptualise the way violence is understood in contemporary Indian society.Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across siteslaw, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so onto 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.Table of contentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Habitations of Violence in India by Kalpana KannabiranI VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICALViolence and the Political: Thinking across Traditions by Aditya NigamViolence and the Colonial Order: India under British Rule by David ArnoldState Formation, Minoritization, and Violence in Postcolonial India by T.K. OommenMuslim Citizenship, Identity, and Violence in India by Abdul ShabanII WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CASTE?Caste Violence against Dalits: Causes and Remedy by Anand TeltumbdeViolence 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. GeethaIII GENEALOGIES OF GENDER, POWER, AND RESISTANCEThe Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai by Shilpa PhadkeWitches: Through Changing Contexts Women Remain the Target by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, and Shivani SatijaUnearthing a Terrible Beauty: Violence and the Politics of Choices in Assam by Sanjay BarboraIV THE IMPUNITY GRIDIndian Maoism: As Victim and Agency of Violence by Sumanta BanerjeeThe Violence of Postcolonial Spaces: Kudankulam by Itty AbrahamOn Structural Violence by Akhil GuptaThe Economics of Violence and the Violence of Economics by Jayati GhoshKalpana Kannabiran,Professor, Councill“&