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State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India (Hardcover)
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State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India (Hardcover)
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If the state in a democracy like India engages in violence towards
its own citizens, then is this state still acceptable to the
people? This work studies how the wielding and exercise of violence
by a power shapes peoples' notions of belongingness, security, and
freedom, and how these processes construct or affect the legitimacy
of a given power. These questions are answered in this work through
insights offered by ethnographic explorations of police violence in
Delhi, and the anti-insurgency violence of Indian army in
Lakhipathar, Assam. It is a study of the margins of the state -
both territorial and conceptual. The sites of study are what are
seen as spaces of disorder, of danger, to both the national-body
and the citizen-self. The specific vision of the nation-state as
marked by fixed geographical boundaries and supremacy over the
territories defined by such boundaries, often makes the use of
violence imperative, especially at the margins. This violence,
however, does not appear to be leading to a disillusionment with
the form or the institutions of the state.
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