{"product_id":"routine-violence-nations-fragments-histories-9780804752640","title":"Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. \u003ci\u003eRoutine Violence\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices--the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the real histories of a nation; how the sacred nation, and its (mainstream) culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gyanendra Pandey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804752640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGyanendra Pandey is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History at Emory University; a founder member of Subaltern Studies; and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) and \u003ci\u003eRemembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) among other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40724306133107,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_716d6242-a539-4500-befe-2acd3c6050e3.jpg?v=1677250697","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/routine-violence-nations-fragments-histories-9780804752640","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}