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Ordinary people, extraordinary violence : = Naxalites and Hindu extremists in India /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ordinary people, extraordinary violence :/ Chitralekha.
Reminder of title:	Naxalites and Hindu extremists in India /
Author:	Chitralekha.
Published:	New Delhi :Routledge, : 2012.,
Description:	xviii, 326 p. :ill ;23 cm.
Subject:	Extremists - India. -
ISBN:	0415624835 (hbk.) :

Ordinary people, extraordinary violence : = Naxalites and Hindu extremists in India /
Chitralekha.

Ordinary people, extraordinary violence :Naxalites and Hindu extremists in India /Chitralekha. - New Delhi :Routledge,2012. - xviii, 326 p. :ill ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-319) and index.

Introduction : why compare Naxalites and Hindu extremists?--

"The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied within the framework of peasant rebellion, social movement or recently even terrorism, and Hindu rioters viewed mostly under the broadrubric of ethnic violence. The book draws from the author's extensive and painstaking fieldwork, first with Naxalite armed cadre across seven districts in Jharkhand and Bihar, and later with participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Viewed from the standpoint of the perpetrator or foot soldier, the book bridges hitherto sacrosanct boundaries between left-extremist and communal violence, making available a whole new dimension to the study of social mobilisation, the politics of identity and, with far reaching implications, discovers deep commonalities in the life-worlds and aspirations of those motivated to kill in the name of a cause in apparently disparate contexts. The findings of this compelling analysis of human actors -- ordinary people driven to extraordinary violence -- will interest the informed general reader, as also those interested in sociology, politics, violence studies, ethnic movements, Naxalism, policy studies, and peace & conflict studies."--Publisher's website.

ISBN: 0415624835 (hbk.) :UK65.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1576606
Extremists
--India.

LC Class. No.: HN690.Z9 / V515 2012

Ordinary people, extraordinary violence : = Naxalites and Hindu extremists in India /
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505 0 # $t Introduction : why compare Naxalites and Hindu extremists?-- $t Left extremists in Bihar and Jharkhand : historical context, ideology, organisation structure and dynamics -- $t Committed, opportunists and drifters : redescribing the Naxalites in Jharkhand and Bihar -- $t Hindu extremists in Ahmedabad : who are they and why are they ready to kill Muslims? -- $t Hindu extremists in rural and Adivasi Gujarat : Sardarpura and Palla -- $t Conclusions.
520 # $a "The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied within the framework of peasant rebellion, social movement or recently even terrorism, and Hindu rioters viewed mostly under the broadrubric of ethnic violence. The book draws from the author's extensive and painstaking fieldwork, first with Naxalite armed cadre across seven districts in Jharkhand and Bihar, and later with participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Viewed from the standpoint of the perpetrator or foot soldier, the book bridges hitherto sacrosanct boundaries between left-extremist and communal violence, making available a whole new dimension to the study of social mobilisation, the politics of identity and, with far reaching implications, discovers deep commonalities in the life-worlds and aspirations of those motivated to kill in the name of a cause in apparently disparate contexts. The findings of this compelling analysis of human actors -- ordinary people driven to extraordinary violence -- will interest the informed general reader, as also those interested in sociology, politics, violence studies, ethnic movements, Naxalism, policy studies, and peace & conflict studies."--Publisher's website.
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