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Routine Violence

Name: Routine Violence
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 04718001
Price: 124.49 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Gyanendra Pandey
ISBN: 9780804752633

Nations, Fragments, Histories

Gyanendra Pandey

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04718001

Publishers Stanford University Press, November 2005

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the i... Full description

Libristo code: 04718001

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Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this. This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times.