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India : Democracy and violence

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Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2015Description: 258p viiISBN:
  • 9780199451838
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.040000 DAS
Contents:
Table of contents 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
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Table of contents

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