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| Author(s): |
Mariana Faiad Batista Alves
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2018-03-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Thomas Patrick Dwyer;
Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri;
Marcelo Carvalho Rosa;
Mirian Santos Ribeiro de Oliveira;
Antonio Florentino Neto
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| Advisor: | Thomas Patrick Dwyer |
| Abstract | |
The attributes of violence refer to acts of violence clearly oriented towards specific groups. In the official governmental discourse, those attributes are classified as violence against women, violence against scheduled castes and violence against scheduled tribes. Events analysed in this study indicate other attributes such as violence against Muslims and violence against Sikhs. Considering India an ancient society politically organised under the caste system, there is a peculiarity in its relation with the groups and on the primacy of groups on individual rights. Amongst the crimes oriented towards specific attributes, this study will focus on the riots. This choice is justified because riots are on the top of the governmental list of crimes as the one with the highest level of occurrence, but also this study will focus on the riots intending to relate collective violence with a society organised under the hierarchy of the caste system. This study will go thought the context behind major riots in India with a double intent. On one side, it will look at the riots as expressions of the divergences between particular groups, but specially, it will look at riots as instruments on the construction of the divergence between groups. Violence against women enters this study intersectionally, as part of the collective violence in all its attributes. The study starts with the context of independence in the eve of Partition, suggesting it to be the first riots of independent India. It follows to an analisys of the relation between India and Pakistan thought the four wars between the two countries, focusing on the context of Kashmir and on the formation of Bangladesh. It proceeds to the context surrounding the violence against Sikhs in Deli in 1984. After that, it will discuss the context around the destruction of a 15th century mosque and the willing desire to build a temple instead, and the riots against Muslims in Bhagalpur in 1989 and in Ayodhya in 1992, and the context of the riots against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. It then follows to multiple contexts of violence against Dalits and, at the very end, this study will analyse the violence against Muslims and Dalits in the context of the prohibition of cattle slaughter (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/10089-9 - India´s Postcolonial thought. A space conquered by the critique of the western thought. |
| Grantee: | Mariana Faiad Batista Alves |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |