Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practicesâ€•the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this. This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

Country	USA
Author	Gyanendra Pandey
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Stanford University Press
EAN	9780804752640
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0804752648
Label	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	246
PublicationDate	2005-11-02
Publisher	Stanford University Press
Studio	Stanford University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)