Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship
between secular law and religious violence by studying the
memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom—postcolonial India's
most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence.
By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel
interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative
of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which
the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the
irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective
memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns
and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating
secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the
violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The
book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we
see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and
presents itself as the panacea for that very violence.
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