State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India

State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780199092024
ISBN-13 : 0199092028
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Book Synopsis State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India by : Santana Khanikar

Download or read book State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India written by Santana Khanikar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, this question is addressed through insights offered by ethnographic explorations of everyday policing in Delhi and the anti-insurgency measures of the Indian army in Lakhipathar village in Assam. Battling the dominant understanding of the inverse connect between state legitimacy and use of violence, Santana Khanikar argues that use of violence does not necessarily detract from the legitimacy of the modern territorial nation-state. Based on extensive research of two sites, the book develops a narrative of how two facets of state violence, one commonly understood to be for routine maintenance of law and order and the other to be of extraordinary need for maintaining unity and integrity of the nation-state, often produce comparable responses. The book delves into the debates surrounding state–citizen relationship in India, while critically engaging with dominant notions of state legitimacy and its relation with use of violence by the state.


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