1st Edition
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence Naxalites and Hindu Extremists in India
By Chitralekha
Copyright 2012
346 Pages
by
Routledge India
346 Pages
by
Routledge India
346 Pages
by
Routledge India
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The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied within the framework of peasant rebellion, social movement or recently even terrorism, and Hindu rioters viewed mostly under the broad rubric of... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Left Extremists in Bihar and Jharkand 3. Committed, Opportunists and Drifters 4. Hindu Extremists in Gujarat: Ahmedabad 5. Hindu Extremists in Rural and Adivasi Gujarat 6. Conclusion. References. Index
Biography
Chitralekha is an academic and researcher based in New Delhi, India.
