Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories

by Gyanendra Pandey

Book Overview

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 practices--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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752648
• ISBN13: 9780804752640
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"