TY - BOOK AU - Kannabiran,Kalpana TI - Violence studies T2 - Oxford India studies in contemporary society SN - 9780190124731 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - India KW - Political violence KW - Women--Violence against KW - Caste--Political aspects N2 - "Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across sites―law, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so on―to explore the normal as well as the exceptional. The case studies in this book are all drawn from the Indian experience. This volume aims towards a coherent and more nuanced understanding of violence that moves beyond the episodic to the systemic, structural levels of society and consciousness."-- ER -