Fault Lines of History: The India Papers II

by Uma Chakravarti (Editor)

Overview

Fault Lines of History is the second volume in Zubaan’s Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil rights, particularly in relation to sexual violence, the state of India has played an active and collusive role, creating states of exception, where its own laws can be suspended and the rights of its citizens violated. Drawing on patterns of sexual violence in Kashmir, Northeast India, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, and Rajasthan, the contributors focus on the histories of militarization in regions of conflict, as well as the histories of caste violence that are often ignored out of convenience.
 
The essays come together to offer an urgent call for action. Though the contributors acknowledge the difficult odds facing the victims and survivors of sexual violence, they urge resistance and an end to silence as the most important weapons in the fight to hold accountable the perpetrators of sexual violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789385932083
Publisher:	Seagull Books
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Uma Chakravarti is a distinguished feminist historian who has taught at Miranda House College for Women, Delhi University. Her books include Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, also published by Zubaan.

Table of Contents

Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia: An Introduction Urvashi Butalia Laxmi Murthy Navsharan Singh vii

Song of a Festering Wound Uzma Falak xvii

Introduction: The Everyday and the Exceptional: Sexual Violence and Impunity in Our Times Uma Chakravarti 1

1 The Price of 'Revolution': Who Determines? Who Pays? Women Combatants and Sympathizers in Northeast India Roshmi Goswami 35

2 Weary of Wars. Memory, Violence and Women in the Making of Contemporary Assam Sanjay Barbora 69

3 Memories of Rape: The Banality of Violence and Impunity in Naga Society Dolly Kikon 94

4 Breaking the Silence: Sexual Violence and Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir Sahba Husain 127

5 Collateral Damage or Regrettable Causality? Sexual Violence and Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir Gazala Peer 172

6 Nobody's Children, Owners of Nothing: Sexual Violence and Impunity in Chhattisgarh Guneet Ahuja Parijata Bhardwaj 211

7 Violence and Impunity in a Patriarchal Caste Culture: Difference Matters Jayshree P. Mangubhai 257

8 Impunity of Law and Custom: Stripping and Parading of Women in India Pratiksha Baxi 291

About the Editors and Contributors 335

People Involved in the Project 340