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Ordinary people extraordinary violence: naxalites and Hindu extremists in India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2012 Routledge New DelhiDescription: xviii, 326 pISBN:
  • 9780415624831
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.40954 C4O7
Summary: The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied within the framework of peasant rebellion, social movement or recently even terrorism, and Hindu rioters viewed mostly under the broad rubric of ethnic violence. The book draws from the authorHs extensive and painstaking fieldwork, first with Naxalite armed cadre across seven districts in Jharkhand and Bihar, and later with participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624831/)
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The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied within the framework of peasant rebellion, social movement or recently even terrorism, and Hindu rioters viewed mostly under the broad rubric of ethnic violence. The book draws from the authorHs extensive and painstaking fieldwork, first with Naxalite armed cadre across seven districts in Jharkhand and Bihar, and later with participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624831/)

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