商品簡介
The book explores how Muslims in Mumbai and Ahmedabad coped with the aftermath of the violence directed against them in 1993 and 2002 respectively, and how they responded to the ethnic carnages of which they were the victims, this highlighting the importance of the context and the history of the place where such violence occurs.
Unlike other stories on ethnic violence that have a short-term focus, dealing mostly with its immediate aftermath, this book examines what happens to the victims over time, how they negotiate a 'new normal' and get on with their lives. Using empirical material based on fieldwork in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the book shows that while poverty, education and employment remain important elements in the process of recovery, the most crucial issue is that of justice and the need to reclaim citizenship.
The book examines how Muslim victims deal with the ethnic violence directed against them in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, in 1993 and 2002, respectively, what happens to them over time, and how they negotiate a 'new b normal' and Get on with their lives.
作者簡介
Dipankar Gupta was formerly Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was also Leverhulme Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2003) and Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (2007). His research interests include ethnicity, rural mobilisation and caste and modernisation.
