Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Habitations of Violence in India by Kalpana Kannabiran I VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICAL Violence and the Political: Thinking across Traditions by Aditya Nigam Violence and the Colonial Order: India under British Rule by David Arnold State Formation, Minoritization, and Violence in Postcolonial India by T.K. Oommen Muslim Citizenship, Identity, and Violence in India by Abdul Shaban II WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CASTE? Caste Violence against Dalits: Causes and Remedy by Anand Teltumbde Violence and Politics: Two Cases of Dalit Women in Uttar Pradesh by Badri Narayan 's Indictment of the Hindu Social Order by V. Geetha III GENEALOGIES OF GENDER, POWER, AND RESISTANCE The Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai by Shilpa Phadke Witches: Through Changing Contexts Women Remain the Target by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, and Shivani Satija Unearthing a Terrible Beauty: Violence and the Politics of Choices in Assam by Sanjay Barbora IV THE IMPUNITY GRID Indian Maoism: As Victim and Agency of Violence by Sumanta Banerjee The Violence of Postcolonial Spaces: Kudankulam by Itty Abraham On Structural Violence by Akhil Gupta The Economics of Violence and the Violence of Economics by Jayati Ghosh

This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and delves into the interconnections between the identifiable normative axes of power and the engendering of violence. The revised edn is priced competitively to make this book available to a wider variety of readers

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.

This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and delves into the interconnections between the identifiable normative axes of power and the engendering of violence. The revised edn is priced competitively to make this book available to a wider variety of readers