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020			_a9781478019664
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100			_aChatterjee, Moyukh
245			_aComposing violence: the limits of exposure and the making of minorities
260			_aDurham: _bDuke University Press, _c2023.
300			_axiii, 166p.: _bill.; pbk.: _c23cm
440			_a Theory in Forms
504			_aInclude a bibliography & index.
520			_aIn 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state's and civil society’s responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations. By tracing the composition of anti-Muslim violence and the legal structures that transform that violence into the making of minorities and majorities, Chatterjee demonstrates that violence is intrinsic to liberal democracy. https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence
650			_aPolitics
650			_aPolitical Theory
650			_aAnthropology
650			_aCultural Anthropology
650			_aAsian Studies
650			_aSouth Asia
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