Violence Studies OIP

Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor & Regional Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She was Professor of Sociology and part of the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Her work has focussed on understanding the social foundations of non-discrimination, structural violence, and questions of constitutionalism and social justice in India. Author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution(2012), her writing straddles law and gender studies, law and literature and human rights. She is recipient of the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in the discipline of law.

• Table of contentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Habitations of Violence in India by Kalpana KannabiranI VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICALViolence and the Political: Thinking across Traditions by Aditya NigamViolence and the Colonial Order: India under British Rule by David ArnoldState Formation, Minoritization, and Violence in Postcolonial India by T.K. OommenMuslim Citizenship, Identity, and Violence in India by Abdul ShabanII WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CASTE?Caste Violence against Dalits: Causes and Remedy by Anand TeltumbdeViolence and Politics: Two Cases of Dalit Women in Uttar Pradesh by Badri Narayan's Indictment of the Hindu Social Order by V. GeethaIII GENEALOGIES OF GENDER, POWER, AND RESISTANCEThe Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai by Shilpa PhadkeWitches: Through Changing Contexts Women Remain the Target by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, and Shivani SatijaUnearthing a Terrible Beauty: Violence and the Politics of Choices in Assam by Sanjay BarboraIV THE IMPUNITY GRIDIndian Maoism: As Victim and Agency of Violence by Sumanta BanerjeeThe Violence of Postcolonial Spaces: Kudankulam by Itty AbrahamOn Structural Violence by Akhil GuptaThe Economics of Violence and the Violence of Economics by Jayati Ghosh