Violence of democracy : interparty conflict in South India / Ruchi Chaturvedi

• VerfasserIn: Chaturvedi, Ruchi
• Place / Publishing House: Durham, London : Duke University Press, 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Classification: 15.77 - Indischer Subkontinent; 89.50 - Politische Prozesse: Allgemeines; 73.00 - Ethnologie: Allgemeines
• Physical Description: xx, 250 Seiten
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite [225]-244; Enthält: Containment and cretinism : the early democratic decades -- CPI (M) and the making of an antagonistic political field -- Care, connectedness, and violence in Hindu right communities -- Law's subterfuge : affording alibis and bolstering conflict -- Individuating responsibility in the colonial past and democratic present

"Violence of Democracy examines the rise of majoritarian politics in India through a close examination of a decades-long series of confrontations in the Kannur district of Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India and supporters of two right-wing parties, Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the region, Ruchi Chaturvedi investigates the unique political character of the violent conflict between the 'party left' and the 'Hindu right', which does not correspond neatly to divisions along ethnic, racial, religious, or linguistic lines. The book draws attention to how this partisan conflict is mediated and perpetuated by legitimate institutions of democratic rule, including local trial courts. Although situated in a close examination of the particular nuances of Kerala, Violence of Democracy provides broader insights into the phenomenon of political violence in majoritarian democracies throughout the postcolonial world"