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State, violence, and legitimacy in India / Santana Khanikar.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199092031 (ebook) :Subject(s): Political violence -- India
| Police brutality -- India | Democracy -- India | India -- Politics and governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199485550DDC classification: 303.60954 LOC classification: HN690.Z9Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In this text, this question is answered by studying responses to police violence in Delhi and to army violence in the context of a secessionist movement in Assam. Evidence from both the field-sites indicates towards acceptance of the state, though it may be slow and flickering, based on own rationalities of the subjects or contextual.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In this text, this question is answered by studying responses to police violence in Delhi and to army violence in the context of a secessionist movement in Assam. Evidence from both the field-sites indicates towards acceptance of the state, though it may be slow and flickering, based on own rationalities of the subjects or contextual.
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