An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence—in wars of direct and indirect conquest—marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization.
The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11 mobilizations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.
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Angana P. Chatterji is an anthropologist and feminist historian. She is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of many books, including Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present, Narratives from Orissa, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia, and Notes on the Postcolonial Present. She is also a contributor to the anthology Kashmir and lead author of many reports, including BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir, Communalism in Orissa, and Without Land or Livelihood.
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