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OverviewIn Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruchi ChaturvediPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9781478020776ISBN 10: 1478020776 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 04 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 I. Pastoral Power, Masculinity, and Interparty Conflict 1. Containment and Cretinism: The Early Democratic Decades 27 2. The CPI (M) and the Making of an Antagonistic Political Field 58 3. Care, Connectedness, and Violence in Hindu Right Communities 88 II. Judicial Responsibility and Subterfuge 4. Law’s Subterfuge: Affording Alibis and Bolstering Conflict 115 5. Individuating Responsibility: The Problem of Intention, Injustice, and Justice 145 Conclusion 167 Notes 173 Bibliiography 225 Index 245ReviewsViolence of Democracy 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 * Ruchi Chaturvedi's Violence of Democracy 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 * “Violence of Democracy 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 * “Ruchi Chaturvedi’s Violence of Democracy 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 * Author InformationRuchi Chaturvedi is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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