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.
No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
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.
No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories
248
Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories
248Paperback(1)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804752640 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/02/2005 |
| Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |