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Wages of violence : Naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay / Thomas Blom Hansen.

By: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.Description: 269 p. : map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0691088403
  • 069108839X (HBK.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.095479 BLO 21
LOC classification:
  • HN690.B6 H36 2001
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Acronyms vii -- Introduction The Proper Name 1 -- Chapter 1. Deccan Pastoral: The Making of an Ethnohistorical -- Imagination in Western India 20 -- Chapter 2. Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire 37 -- Chapter 3. "Say with Pride That We Are Hindus": Shiv Sena -- and Communal Populism 70 -- Chapter 4. Thane City: The Making of Political Dadaism 101 -- Chapter 5. Riots, Policing, and Truth Telling in Bombay 121 -- Chapter 6. In the Muslim Mohalla 160 -- Chapter 7. Living the Dream: Governance, Graft, and Goons 194 -- Conclusion. Politics as Permanent Performance 227.
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CSSEIP Office Library Collection CSSEIP Office Library Collection National Law School CSSEIP Office Library - Ambedkar Studies Books 306.095479 BLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan Available In CSSEIP Department Library AMB012

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acronyms vii -- Introduction The Proper Name 1 -- Chapter 1. Deccan Pastoral: The Making of an Ethnohistorical -- Imagination in Western India 20 -- Chapter 2. Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire 37 -- Chapter 3. "Say with Pride That We Are Hindus": Shiv Sena -- and Communal Populism 70 -- Chapter 4. Thane City: The Making of Political Dadaism 101 -- Chapter 5. Riots, Policing, and Truth Telling in Bombay 121 -- Chapter 6. In the Muslim Mohalla 160 -- Chapter 7. Living the Dream: Governance, Graft, and Goons 194 -- Conclusion. Politics as Permanent Performance 227.

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