{"product_id":"routine-violence-1","title":"Routine Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch has been written about the \"extraordinary\" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. \u003ci\u003eRoutine Violence\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices—the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the \"real\" histories of a nation; how the \"sacred\" nation, and its (\"mainstream\") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Gyanendra Pandey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614544060796,"sku":"9780804752640","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804752640_29408e21-6b59-4863-91c3-37d7bf75b765.jpg?v=1727346547","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/routine-violence-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}