India

Democracy and Violence
Herausgeber: Das, Samir Kumar

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Produktbeschreibung

Violence is usually located outside the democratic domain, implying thereby that its recurrence marks less of-and ironically at the same time - a direct threat to democracy. This book contests and demystifies the celebrationist understanding of democracy and argues that violence is embedded in democracy as much as democracy is embedded in violence. Their mutually embedded nature has only helped make democracy violent and violence democratic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199451838
• ISBN-10: 0199451834
• Artikelnr.: 47865842

Autorenporträt

Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction ( Samir Kumar Das)
* PART I
* CONTEST OVER SOVEREIGNTY
* Towards Postcolonial Statehood: Constabulary Strikes and the Question
of Colonial Inheritance, British India 19457 (Partha Pratim Shil)
* Indian National Congress and the Bureaucracy: Contesting Sovereignty
after the Transfer of Power ( Suhit K. Sen)
* PART II
* CITIZENS AND THE EQUALS
* The Violent Foundations of Citizenship (Ranabir Samaddar)
* Equality amongst Equals: Reflections on the Political Institutions
and Violence in Contemporary India (Samir Kumar Das)
* PART III
* LAW AS VIOLENCE
* Inclusion as Violence (Ashok Agrwaal)
* Reading Life and Death into the Legal Text (Mayur Suresh)
* PART IV
* MOVEMENTS AT HOME AND OUTSIDE
* Addressing Domestic Violence: Changing Strategies within the Womens
Movement, Kolkata, 19802010 ( Samita Sen and Nandita Dhawan)
* The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal1959 Revisited (
Sibaji Pratim Basu)
* Index
* Notes on Editor and Contributors