Communalism And Sexual Violence In India

Author : Megha Kumar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786730688

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Communalism and Sexual Violence in India by Megha Kumar Pdf

Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which saw the brutal victimization of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh women, have so far dominated academic discussions of communal violence. This book examines the specific conditions motivating sexual crimes against women based on three of the deadliest riots that occurred in Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, in 1969, 1985 and 2002. Using an in-depth, grassroots-level analysis, Megha Kumar moves away from the predominant academic view that sees Hindu nationalist ideology as responsible for encouraging attacks on women. Instead, gendered communal violence is shown to be governed by the interaction of an elite ideology and the unique economic, social and political dynamics at work in each instance of conflict. Using government reports, Hindu nationalist publications and civil society commentaries, as well as interviews with activists, politicians and riot survivors, the book offers new insights into the factors and ideologies involved in communal violence, as well as the conditions that work to prevent sexual violence in certain riot contexts.The Politics of Sexual Violence in India will be valuable for academic researchers, Human Rights organizations, NGOs working with survivors of sexual violence and for those involved with community development and urban grassroots activism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2016362538

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Communalism and Sexual Violence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pooja Bakshi
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480320

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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones and State Responses in India by Pooja Bakshi Pdf

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015054081743

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Communalism and Communal Violence in India by Asghar Ali Engineer Pdf

Author : Ward Berenschot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8129123754

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Riot Politics by Ward Berenschot Pdf

"This is a study of communal violence in India that looks at a range of actors, including criminals, politicians, local leaders, police officers and Hindu-nationalist activists. It is an ethnography revealing the links between violence and political mediation."--Publisher's description.

Author : Jyoti Atwal,Iris Flessenkämper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000639230

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Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Jyoti Atwal,Iris Flessenkämper Pdf

This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while highlighting the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences of gender-related violence in India. Beginning with the issues of gender-based violence within the traditional context of Indian history and colonial encounters, it moves on to explore the connections between gender, minorities, marginalisation, sexuality, and violence, especially violence against Dalit women, disabled women, and transgender people. It traces and interprets similarities and differences as well as identifies social causes of potential conflicts. Further, it investigates the forms and mechanisms of political, economic, and institutional violence in the legitimation or de-legitimation of traditional gender roles. The chapters deal with sexual violence, violence within marriage and family, influence of patriarchal forces within factory-based gender violence, and global processes such as demand-driven surrogacy and the politics of literary and cinematic representations of gender-based violence. The book situates relevant debates about India and underlines the global context in the making of the gender bias that leads to violence both in the public and private domains. An important contribution to feminist scholarship, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, history, sociology, and political science.

Author : CHRISTOPHE. JAFFRELOT
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197787502

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Gujarat Under Modi by CHRISTOPHE. JAFFRELOT Pdf

The definitive account of Modi's rule over his home state of Gujarat, for better and worse--a template he now applies to India as a whole.

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024545

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The Cunning of Gender Violence by Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Pdf

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Because religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run so deeply through the institutional structures of the agenda, the contributions explore ways it may be affirming or enabling rationales and systems of power, including civilizational hierarchies, that harm the very people it seeks to protect. Contributors. Lila Abu-Lughod, Nina Berman, Inderpal Grewal, Rema Hammami, Janet R. Jakobsen, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Vasuki Nesiah, Samira Shackle, Sima Shakhsari, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina M Siddiqi, Shahla Talebi, Leti Volpp, Rafia Zakaria

Author : Thomas Blom Hansen,Srirupa Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009100489

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Saffron Republic by Thomas Blom Hansen,Srirupa Roy Pdf

Approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism.

Author : Neeti Nair
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674238275

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Hurt Sentiments by Neeti Nair Pdf

Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious “sentiments” of majorities in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Nair offers historical context for contemporary persecution and rising religious fundamentalism, and highlights how growing political solicitation of religious sentiments has fueled a secular resistance.

Author : Banu Subramaniam
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745602

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Holy Science by Banu Subramaniam Pdf

Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancient history, Banu Subramaniam demonstrates how Hindu nationalism sutures an ideal past to technologies of the present to make bold claims about the Vedic Sciences and the scientific Vedas. Moving beyond a critique of India’s emerging bionationalism, this book explores the generative possibility of myth and story, interweaving compelling new stories into a rich analysis that animates alternative imaginaries and “other” worlds of possibilities.

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Communalism
ISBN : UOM:39015037475822

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The Colours of Violence by Sudhir Kakar Pdf

Setting on communalism and violence in India.

Author : Angana P. Chatterji,Thomas Blom Hansen,Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190078171

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Majoritarian State by Angana P. Chatterji,Thomas Blom Hansen,Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The contributors explore how Hindutva ideology has permeated the state apparatus and formal institutions, and how Hindutva activists exert control over civil society via vigilante groups, cultural policing and violence. Groups and regions portrayed as 'enemies' of the Indian state are the losers in a new order promoting the interests of the urban middle class and business elites. As this majoritarian ideology pervades the media and public discourse, it also affects the judiciary, universities and cultural institutions, increasingly captured by Hindu nationalists. Dissent and difference silenced and debate increasingly sidelined as the press is muzzled or intimidated in the courts. Internationally, the BJP government has emphasised hard power and a fast- expanding security state. This collection of essays offers rich empirical analysis and documentation to investigate the causes and consequences of the illiberal turn taken by the world's largest democracy.

Author : Wanda Teays
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030059897

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Analyzing Violence Against Women by Wanda Teays Pdf

This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women. Its range is global and far reaching in terms of the number of victims. There are deeply entrenched values that need to be rooted out and laid bare. This text offers a philosophical analysis of the problem, with important insights from the various contributors. Topics range from sexual assault to media violence, prostitution and pornography, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. Each of the four parts include essays which tackle these issues and provide us with tools for bringing about change. The philosophical approaches to the topic give readers insight into the harms of interpersonal violence and its impact on the lives of its victims. Analyzing Violence Against Women calls us to examine public policies and work for systemic change. In the process, we are reminded that the concerns of the discipline of Philosophy encompasses issues with a wider scope. Students will especially benefit from seeing how the various authors grapple with this pressing issue and clarify why we need to bring about change.

Author : Abdul Shaban
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351227605

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Lives of Muslims in India by Abdul Shaban Pdf

The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably ‘minoritised’ Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing policy frameworks on caste and class lines, and institutionalised riot systems, the community has also suffered from the lack of leadership from within. At the same time, Indian Muslims have emerged as a ‘mass’ around which the politics of ‘vote bank’, ‘appeasement’, ‘foreigners’, ‘Pakistanis within the country’, and so on are innovated and played upon, making them further apprehensive about asserting their legitimate right to development. The important issues of the double marginalisation of Muslim women and attempts to reform the Muslim Personal Law by some civil society groups is also discussed. Contributed by academics, activists and journalists, the articles discuss issues of integration, exclusion and violence, and attempt to understand categories such as ‘identity’, ‘minority’, ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘nationalism’ with regard to and in the context of Indian Muslims. This second edition, with a new introduction, will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies, minority studies, Islamic studies, policy studies and development studies, as well as policymakers, civil society activists and those in media and journalism.