On Their Watch: Mass violence and State apathy in India – Examining the record - Couverture souple

Chopra, Surabhi; Jha, Prita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8188789984 ISBN 13 : 9788188789986

Editeur : Three Essays Collective, 2014

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive survey, analysis and critique of the State and its institutions with regard to the horrific communal mass violence that has dotted the political and social landscape of Independent India. It holds the State and its institutions accountable, in its acts of commission and omission, for the sheer scale of the communal massacres, for its inability to ensure safety of its citizens and to guarantee justice and adequate relief and rehabilitation for the survivors. What is remarkable about the book is that its thesis has been argued on the basis of the State’s own records, retrieved mainly through RTI applications.

It tells the facts, names the names, of the perpetrators and those complicit, and its reading is a humble lesson on how far the world’s largest democracy is from the equality and secularism enshrined in the Indian constitution. The episodes of mass violence covered in this volume, Nellie (1983), Delhi (1984), Bhagalpur (1989), Gujarat (2002), reflect the endemic nature of communal violence and its systemic roots.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Three Essays Collective
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8188789984
• ISBN 13: 9788188789986
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 394
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