State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India write by Santana Khanikar. This book was released on 2018-04-26. State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, this question is addressed through insights offered by ethnographic explorations of everyday policing in Delhi and the anti-insurgency measures of the Indian army in Lakhipathar village in Assam. Battling the dominant understanding of the inverse connect between state legitimacy and use of violence, Santana Khanikar argues that use of violence does not necessarily detract from the legitimacy of the modern territorial nation-state. Based on extensive research of two sites, the book develops a narrative of how two facets of state violence, one commonly understood to be for routine maintenance of law and order and the other to be of extraordinary need for maintaining unity and integrity of the nation-state, often produce comparable responses. The book delves into the debates surrounding state–citizen relationship in India, while critically engaging with dominant notions of state legitimacy and its relation with use of violence by the state.
Ascending India and Its State Capacity
Ascending India and Its State Capacity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ascending India and Its State Capacity write by Sumit Ganguly. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Ascending India and Its State Capacity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: The Indian State's Capacity to Get Things Done -- TWO: Ascending Major Powers -- STATE CAPACITY -- THREE: Conceptualizing and Measuring State Strength -- FOUR: Extraction and Legitimacy -- FIVE: Violence Monopoly -- STATE-CAPACITY COROLLARIES -- ECONOMIC -- SIX: The Economy -- SEVEN: Infrastructure -- EIGHT: Inequality -- POLITICAL -- NINE: Democratic Institutions -- TEN: Grand Strategy -- ELEVEN: Defense and Security Policies -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- TWELVE: Ascending India-Its State-Capacity Problems and Prospects -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Building Legitimacy
Building Legitimacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Legitimacy write by M. Sajjad Hassan. This book was released on 2008-04-16. Building Legitimacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compares two states in the Northeast with different socio-political trajectories—a relatively orderly Mizoram and a troubled Manipur—in order to understand the sources of political turmoil in the region. Taking the region as a case study, it examines the larger debates on success and failure in state-making. In discussing the divergent success of the two states in mitigating conflicts, Hassan demonstrates how in Mizoram the process of state-making helped consolidate public legitimacy and the authority of state leaders. He also shows how it strengthened the institutional capability of government agencies to provide services, manage group contestations, and avoid breakdown. At the same time, he illustrates how in Manipur, traditional centres of power—tribal and ethnic associations—gained in authority, compromising the legitimacy of the government and institutional capability of its agencies. The study highlights the important role, in the context of state breakdown, of the absence of an effective medium to regulate inter-group relationships and manage contestations over power, resources, opportunities, and identity. Rigorously comparative, it explains the sources of disorder in Northeast India by focusing on the nature of state–society relations in the region. While acknowledging the important role of history in structuring this failure of the state system in the region, it suggests ways in which the path dependence can be overcome.
State Violence and Punishment in India
State Violence and Punishment in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State Violence and Punishment in India write by Taylor C. Sherman. This book was released on 2010-01. State Violence and Punishment in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction -- Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and the limits of state power in India, 1919-1920 -- Disobedience and discord : the non-cooperation movement, 1920-1925 -- Extra-judicial punishments and the civil disobedience movement, 1930-1934 -- Legislating against communal violence : the United Provinces Goonda Act and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-1938 -- The hunger strikes of the Lahore conspiracy case prisoners, 1929-1938 -- The Second World War and India's coercive network, 1939-1946 -- Partition and the transitional state in India, 1947-1948 -- The police action in Hyderabad and the making of the postcolonial state in India, 1947-1956
Political Violence and the Police in India
Political Violence and the Police in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Violence and the Police in India write by K S Subramanian. This book was released on 2007-10-09. Political Violence and the Police in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increasing political violence in India is challenging the government’s ability to resolve conflicts democratically. In this topical book, K S Subramanian: - identifies patterns and trends in political violence in India; - examines how the government’s political machinery has responded; - explains why State response has been inadequate; and - recommends changes in structures and attitudes. The author sketches the growing crisis of governance by assessing the Central and state governments’ police organisations, especially key central agencies such as the Intelligence Bureau, the Central Paramilitary Forces and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. In case studies of regions and communities affected by political violence, he takes the reader behind the scenes—whether it is on police partisanship in the communal pogrom in Gujarat, the official approach to the Naxalite problem, the violence against dalits and adivasis, or the violation of human rights in northeast India. With police reform being a major public concern, police research is gaining importance as a field of study. This book will appeal to students of criminal justice, political science, sociology, public policy and public administration, as well as policy makers, police and administrative officers, and human rights activists.
