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Terror Trials - Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (Paperback)
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Terror Trials - Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (Paperback)
Series: Thinking from Elsewhere
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An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book
explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday
experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal
procedures and technicalities become the modes through which
courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trials have
come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state
and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are
experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a
minute engagement with legal technicalities. Amidst the grinding
terror trials—which are replete with stories of torture, illegal
detention and fabricated charges—defendants school themselves in
legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships
with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts and
express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though
seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly
contested, and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a
trial: the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or
unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative
and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close
relationships between police and terror-accused. In attending to
the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday
interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police,
Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability
emerge through the law.
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