<strong>Violence and Democracy in India</strong> examines the relationship between the extremeviolence of riots pogroms acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing an... » 

Violence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extremeviolence of riots pogroms acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and theordinary everyday often invisible structures and practices of violence inIndia. Usually these exceptional extreme moments of statesponsored violenceare treated as aberrations quite separate from the everyday world of politicsasusual particularly when the norm in question is that of liberal democracy.In contrast Violence and Democracy explores the ways in which democracyenables violence and how violence in turn transforms the practices and pursuitof democracy. «