India: Democracy and Violence - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199451834 ISBN 13: 9780199451838

Casa editrice: OUP India, 2015

Riassunto

Violence is usually located outside the democratic domain. Its recurrence is understood as a direct threat to democracy. Democracies are called upon to manage, tackle, or deal with it, not necessarily through democratic means. Today, democracy is sought to be exported across continents by waging war on countries that, according to the exporting countries of the West,are yet to become democratic.

This book contests and demystifies the celebrationist understanding of democracy and argues that violence is embedded in democracy as much as democracy is embedded in violence. Their interconnected existence has only made democracy violent and violence one of the many ways of trying to make a democracy work. So, more of democracy does not necessarily mean less of violence and vice versa. Viewed in this light, this book examines the connection as organic and one of mutually spiralling nature. Democratic institutions and violence are thus implicated in an endless dialogue and confrontation. The alternative to democracy can only be a better democracy.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Contenuti:

• Preface
• Introduction
• I: Contest over Sovereignty
• 1: Partha Pratim Shil: Towards Postcolonial Statehood: Constabulary Strikes and the Question of Colonial 'Inheritance', British India 1945-47
• 2: Suhit K. Sen: Indian National Congress and the Bureaucracy: Contesting Sovereignty after the Transfer of Power
• II: Citizens and the Equals
• 3: Ranabir Samaddar: The Violent Foundations of Citizenship
• 4: Samir Kumar Das: 'Equality amongst Equals': Reflections on Political Institutions and Violence in Contemporary India
• III: Law as Violence
• 5: Ashok Agrwaal: Inclusion as Violence
• 6: Mayur Suresh: Reading Life and Death into the Legal Text
• IV: Movements at Home and Outside
• 7: Samita Sen and Nandita Dhawan: Addressing Domestic Violence: Changing Strategies within the Women's Movement, Kolkata 1980-2010
• 8: Sibaji Pratim Basu: The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal - 1959 Revisited
• Index
• Notes on the Editor and Contributors

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199451834
• ISBN 13: 9780199451838
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 286
• Redattore: Das Samir Kumar