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Essays on Violence: Population, Sacrifice and Madness

Author :  Priyadarshini Vijaisri

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Country
India
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
ISBN 9789356404465
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2024
Bib. Info xi, 335p.; 22 cm. Includes Index.
Categories Sociology/Culture Studies
Product Weight 600 gms.
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Essays on Violence: Pollution, Sacrifice and Madness is an exploration of the intersecting histories of caste and violence in the Indian context foregrounding ideational and temporal continuities and deep linkages between ideas, processes and events by combing historical sources with ethnographic data. Traversing the diverse and conflicting strands in Indian traditions, it traces the centrality of the idea of violence in discourses on sacrificial violence, self, body, evil and danger and their reverberations in critical moments of Indian history. The discourse on caste violence is unpacked through analysis of concepts like danda, matsyanyaya and vadhoavadha, religious and textual exegesis of negation and demonization and historical sites to locate processes of transitions in cultures of violence via the Telangana armed uprising and imagined cartography of the incipient nation.

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