{"product_id":"routine-violence-nations-fragments-histories-paperback","title":"Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGyanendra Pandey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the ideological and political conditions that allow, and sanction, the undisguised political violence of our times. It is concerned with the regnant demands of nationalism and of history writing, and the unity and uniformity upon which these insist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch 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 practices--the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. \u003cbr\u003eNo sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoutine violence is violence that has sunk into a zone of indiscernibility between the unnoted and the legitimate. It must be described in detail to be lifted out of that zone. And those who do so must bring a spirituality to description that contests violence all the way down. In this superb history of routine violence in twentieth-century India, Gyan Pandey does just that. --William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a remarkably fine set of essays on the forms and conditions of violence in modern India by a distinguished historian...an impressive work of historical scholarship, excellently written and thought-provoking.\" --Talal Asad, The Graduate Center, City University of New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGyanendra Pandey is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History at Emory University; a founder member of Subaltern Studies; and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) and \u003ci\u003eRemembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.98 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765063610675,"sku":"9780804752640","price":42.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aVFqVk5kZHM1eTA1dG9ITWxLaERCUT09.webp?v=1764612120","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/routine-violence-nations-fragments-histories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}