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Book Excerpt: Violent Modernities
Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed to undo the violence of lawlessness. Violent Modernities uses a critical legal perspective to show that law and violence in the New India ... Read more
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5 December 2022
Profiles of Dissent
When the commitment to social change is a provocation for an increasingly repressive State: A profile of Atikur Rahman
12 September 2022
Essay
Who do we call when the Police murders? Fear grows as the Indian Muslim community is under constant attack.
21 June 2022
Interview
Bottom-up mobilization to hold the State accountable: A conversation with Nikhil Dey
1 June 2022
Book Excerpt
Gabbilam: A book excerpt
23 May 2022
Essay , Photo Essay
Our world ended many times over: The ongoing demolitions deepen the humanitarian crisis in Khori Gaon
16 May 2022
Photo Essay
We will die in our own country: Rohingya refugees flee Jammu in fear of detention
9 May 2022
Essay
There is no reconciliation without justice: The case of The Gambia
5 May 2022
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