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Narrating love and violence : women contesting caste, tribe, and state in Lahaul, India / Himika Bhattacharya.

By: Bhattacharya, Himika 1975- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Description: vii, 205 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813589534 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780813589541 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Dalit women -- India -- Lahūl -- Social conditions | Women -- India -- Lahūl -- Social conditions | Women -- Violence against -- India -- Lahūl | Lahūl (India) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.40954 Online resources: Publisher's Description
Contents:
Prologue: from fieldwork to lifework -- Crossing the top -- Shades of wildness -- Storied lives -- Narrating love -- Magic tricks -- Remembering for love -- Epilogue.
Summary: Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and community discourses about gendered violence serve as proxy for caste in India, thus not only upholding these social hierarchies, but also enabling violence. The women in this book tell their stories through love, articulated as rejection, redefinition and reproduction of notions of violence and solidarity. Himika Bhattacharya centers the women’s narratives as a site of knowledge—beyond love and beyond violence. This book shows how women on the margins of tribe and caste know both, love and violence, as agents wishing to re-shape discourses of caste, tribe and community. Taken from the publisher's site.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: from fieldwork to lifework -- Crossing the top -- Shades of wildness -- Storied lives -- Narrating love -- Magic tricks -- Remembering for love -- Epilogue.

Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and community discourses about gendered violence serve as proxy for caste in India, thus not only upholding these social hierarchies, but also enabling violence.

The women in this book tell their stories through love, articulated as rejection, redefinition and reproduction of notions of violence and solidarity. Himika Bhattacharya centers the women’s narratives as a site of knowledge—beyond love and beyond violence. This book shows how women on the margins of tribe and caste know both, love and violence, as agents wishing to re-shape discourses of caste, tribe and community.
Taken from the publisher's site.

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