State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India

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  • State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India Book Detail

  • Author : Santana Khanikar
  • Release Date : 2018-04-26
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 356
  • ISBN 13 : 0199092028
  • File Size : 58,58 MB
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State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India by Santana Khanikar PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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