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Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory In The New India

Author :  Oishik Sircar

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Country
India
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi
ISBN 9781316512814
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2024
Bib. Info xxii, 337p.; 23 cm. Bibliography Includes Index.
Categories History
Product Weight 700 gms.
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Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom―postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact.

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