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028			_a: Samyak Vidyasagar _b: Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 201012 _c: BOS-000544 _d: 06/11/2026
082			_a363.280954 HEA
100			_aHeath, Deana (Editor)
100			_a; Lokaneeta, Jinee (Editor)
245			_aPolicing and Violence in India _b: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities. _c/ Deana Heath.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Speaking Tiger Books _c, 2025.
300			_a367p. _c215 x 140 x 18cm.
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520			_aWhy does India’s police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked with maintaining the law and order, that has led to a normalization of daily violence? These are the key questions that inform the analyses in this volume by lawyers, academics and activists. Divided into four broad sections, it begins by looking at the origins of the modern police force in the 1860s and demonstrates their role in maintaining socio-cultural, economic and political hierarchies even in post-Independence India. The second section explores how the law and legal infrastructure, as well as the bureaucracy in India, work to effectively facilitate police violence and to further marginalize and criminalize certain groups, like lower castes and Muslims. The penultimate section complicates this picture, examining how police violence is shaped by historical ambivalence towards democracy, the personal and systemic dynamics between police personnel and the accused, and the fraught identity of police in conflict zones like Kashmir, where authority is both granted and withheld by the state. The final section contains interviews of and reflections by prominent critics of police violence, including former Haryana DGP V.N. Rai and Abdul Wahid Shaikh, falsely accused of involvement in the 2006 Mumbai blasts. Questioning its foundational purpose and envisioning pathways to accountability and reform, Policing and Violence in India ignites a long-overdue conversation about the nature of policing in India.
650			_aPolice brutality - India
650			_aPolice misconduct - India
650			_aColonialism - India
700			_aDeana Heath Editors
942			_cBOOK
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