Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Demography and population movements in Gujarat; 2. Vatani to Visthapit: violence and displacement in 2002; 3. Relief instead of rights: the governance of communal violence; 4. Reconstruction and rights through self-help; 5. Violence and good governance; Bibliography.
This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002.
Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande teaches at the Department of Civics and Politics at the University of Mumbai. Following her doctoral research at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, she authored a chapter and was involved with research for a collaboration between the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the London School of Economics and Political Science for their volume on Governance and the Governed. Her research interests are forced migration studies, governance and the state.
'It is often said that a state must be judged by how it treats its
weakest and most vulnerable populations. This account of the
aftermath of the Gujarat pogrom in 2002 is a powerful and
well-documented indictment of the dark underside of the
much-heralded development state of Gujarat. Focusing on the fate
and living conditions of the hundreds of thousands displaced by the
pogrom, Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande paints a disturbing picture of
systematic neglect, paltry compensations and daily humiliations of
displaced Muslims by state officials. Her meticulous research shows
that the cruelties of the pogrom was followed by another kind of
violence - structural, slow, callous and indifferent. This is a
major contribution to the literature on violence, governance and
internal displacements across the social sciences.' Thomas Blom
Hansen, Stanford University, California
'This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the
aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002. It employs the probing
lens of displacement to examine this event and offers a compelling
explanation for the events that have led to paradigmatic changes in
India in the recent past. An important reading for anyone concerned
with structural questions of displacement due to communal violence
and the larger issues of human rights in the post-violence
context.' Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
'The book is noteworthy because it manages to carve an original
path through heavily-trampled terrain; that is not to say, however,
the burden of existing literature does not weigh heavily in the
text. … There are a great many interviews hidden away in the book.
Shining through these now-standard narratives are glimpses into the
lives and tribulations of real people who experienced these events
in their homes and on the streets; people who had near misses; and
people who saw and heard things that they later wished they had
not.' Edward Simpson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
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