| Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories Contributor(s): Pandey, Gyanendra (Author) |
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ISBN: 080475263X ISBN-13: 9780804752633 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: "Routine violence is violence that has sunk into a zone of indiscernibility between the unnoted and the legitimate. It must be described in detail to be lifted out of that zone. And those who do so must bring a spirituality to description that contests violence all the way down. In this superb history of routine violence in twentieth-century India, Gyan Pandey does just that." --William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University "This is a remarkably fine set of essays on the forms and conditions of violence in modern India by a distinguished historian...an impressive work of historical scholarship, excellently written and thought-provoking." --Talal Asad, The Graduate Center, City University of New York |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.6 |
| LCCN: 2005013564 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.12" W x 9.3" (0.97 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates the ideological and political conditions that allow, and sanction, the undisguised political violence of our times. It is concerned with the regnant demands of nationalism and of history writing, and the unity and uniformity upon which these insist. |