Ways of Remembering: Volume 1

Oishik Sircar is Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School, and Associate Member, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School. He is the author of Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (2021) and co-director of the documentary film We Are Foot Soldiers (2011).

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Law and the Aesthetics of Atrocity; 2. A Jurisprudential-Aesthetic Approach; 3. The Best Bakery Judgments: Aesthetics of Judicial Memory; 4. Bollywood's Law: Cinematic Justice and Collective Memory; 5. 'As They Ought'; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

'Ways of Remembering is an engrossing study of the interface between law and cinema in shaping the public memory of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. It offers vital new insights into the spectacle of anti-Muslim violence that grounds the 'New India'. Sircar brilliantly and provocatively maps out the convergence between the ideologies of Hindutva and liberal Hindus, between religious hatred and neo-liberal governmentality to challenge the faith in secular constitutionalism as the solution to the anti-Muslim hatred that is now ubiquitous in India. This book is indispensable to understanding how national publics are mobilized in the contemporary rise of neoliberal fascisms in India, and around the world. It is an unforgettable read.' Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia, Canada