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020			_a9781509537860
028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000326 _d4/11/2025
082			_a332.1 DAS
100			_aDas, Veena.
245			_aSlum Acts _b: (After the Postcolonial). _c/ Veena Das.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Oxford and Portland _c , 1956.
300			_aviii, 190p. _c: 22cm.
365			_b4037
520			_aThis book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social.
650			_aBanking and financial services
650			_aSocial Dimension.
650			_aLife in low-income
700			_aVeena Das
942			_cBOOK
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