TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaturvedi,Ruchi
TI  - Violence of democracy: interparty conflict in South India 
AV  - JQ620.K477 
U1  - 306.2095483 C392V 23/eng/20230213
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Communist Party of India (Marxist)
KW  - Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh
KW  - Bharatiya Janata Party
KW  - Political parties
KW  - India
KW  - Kerala
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Cannanore (District)
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Democracy
KW  - India, South
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / South / India
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
KW  - Kerala (India)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Containment and cretinism : the early democratic decades -- The CPI (M) and the making of an antagonistic political field -- Care, connectedness, and violence in Hindu right communities -- Law's subterfuge : affording alibis and bolstering conflict -- Individuating responsibility : The problem of intention, injustice, and justice
N2  - "Violence of Democracy examines the rise of majoritarian politics in India through a close examination of a decades-long series of confrontations in the Kannur district of Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India and supporters of two right-wing parties, Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the region, Ruchi Chaturvedi investigates the unique political character of the violent conflict between the 'party left' and the 'Hindu right', which does not correspond neatly to divisions along ethnic, racial, religious, or linguistic lines. The book draws attention to how this partisan conflict is mediated and perpetuated by legitimate institutions of democratic rule, including local trial courts. Although situated in a close examination of the particular nuances of Kerala, Violence of Democracy provides broader insights into the phenomenon of political violence in majoritarian democracies throughout the postcolonial world"--
ER  -