The Political Theology of Violence in Contemporary India
What are we to make of the fact that most violence in India rarely has any visible or clear actors? Why is most violence represented as ‘pure events’ without identifiable actors—but as ‘mobs’, as spontaneous combustion, as spontaneous rage that arises from perceived collective grievances and insults...
Main Author: | Thomas Blom Hansen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2008-12-01
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Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/1872 |
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