{"product_id":"violence-of-democracy-9781478020776","title":"Violence of Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuchi Chaturvedi examines a decades-long conflict between Marxist and Hindu political parties in South India to illuminate how representative democracies can foster majoritarian violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eViolence of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e raises urgent, timely, and important questions about democracy, violence, and authoritarianism in postcolonial democracies. Ruchi Chaturvedi examines the nature of modern democracy through a dense, historically engaged, and ethnographically rich exploration of the political lives of young men in North Kerala.” -- Ritty A. Lukose, author of * Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India *\u003cbr\u003e“Ruchi Chaturvedi’s \u003ci\u003eViolence of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating ethnography of party politics and violence in North Kerala that rethinks fundamental issues about democratic competition and mobilization. This original and insightful analysis of the nature and sources of political violence in modern democracies makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of postcolonial societies.” -- Karuna Mantena, author of * Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Pastoral Power, Masculinity, and Interparty Conflict\u003cbr\u003e 1. Containment and Cretinism: The Early Democratic Decades  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. The CPI (M) and the Making of an Antagonistic Political Field  58\u003cbr\u003e 3. Care, Connectedness, and Violence in Hindu Right Communities  88\u003cbr\u003e II. Judicial Responsibility and Subterfuge\u003cbr\u003e 4. Law’s Subterfuge: Affording Alibis and Bolstering Conflict  115\u003cbr\u003e 5. Individuating Responsibility: The Problem of Intention, Injustice, and Justice  145\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  167\u003cbr\u003e Notes  173\u003cbr\u003e Bibliiography  225\u003cbr\u003e Index  245","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409014989143,"sku":"9781478020776","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020776.jpg?v=1730505097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-of-democracy-9781478020776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}