{"product_id":"routine-violence-gyanendra-pandey-9780804752633","title":"Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories","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 \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 \u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gyanendra Pandey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080475263X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804752633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.12w x 0.76d","brand":"Gyanendra Pandey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065146585343,"sku":"9780804752633","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38d48c99-e02f-4222-a187-619180f064ed.jpg?v=1768673301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/routine-violence-gyanendra-pandey-9780804752633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}