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Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Veena Das
Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Veena Das
Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 4, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780520247451 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 296 |
Dimensions | 155 × 228 × 17 mm · 466 g |
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