Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities Chatterjee Moyukh
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities Chatterjee Moyukh In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. In…
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Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities Chatterjee Moyukh
In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead.
The state and civil society's responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism,
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