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020			_a9780199485550
082			_a303.60954 _bKHA-S
100			_aKhanikar,Santana
245			_aState, violence and legitimacy in India
260			_bOxford University Press _c2018
300			_axiv, 269p.
504			_aInclude Reference and Index
520			_aIf the state in a democracy like India engages in violence towards its own citizens, then is this state still acceptable to the people? This work studies how the wielding and exercise of violence by a power shapes peoples' notions of belongingness, security, and freedom, and how these processes construct or affect the legitimacy of a given power. These questions are answered in this work through insights offered by ethnographic explorations of police violence in Delhi, and the anti-insurgency violence of Indian army in Lakhipathar, Assam. It is a study of the margins of the state - both territorial and conceptual. The sites of study are what are seen as spaces of disorder, of danger, to both the national-body and the citizen-self. The specific vision of the nation-state as marked by fixed geographical boundaries and supremacy over the territories defined by such boundaries, often makes the use of violence imperative, especially at the margins. This violence, however, does not appear to be leading to a disillusionment with the form or the institutions of the state.
650			_aPolitical violence _vPolitics and government _vPolice brutality _vDemocracy _vPolice misconduct _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK