Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Genealogies of Violence in South Asia / Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann -- Part I. Structural Violence: Ideologies, Hierarchies and Symbolic Acts: 2. Neither War Nor Peace: Political Order and Post-Conflict Violence in Nepal / Julia Strasheim -- 3. Caste Violence: Hate Speech or Injurious Acts? / K. Satyanarayana -- 4. The Representational Burden of Ethno-Nationalist Violence in Sri Lanka / Harshana Rambukwella -- 5. Mapping Extraordinary Measures: Militarisation and Political Resistance in Kashmir / Mohammed Sirajuddeen -- Part II. Gendered Violence: Rape, Misogyny and Feminist Discourse: 6. Sex, Rape, Representation: Cultures of Sexual Violence in Contemporary India / Karen Gabriel -- 7. Biographies of Violence and the Violence of Biographies: Writing about Rape in Pakistan / Shazia Sadaf -- 8. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal / Sanchali Sarkar -- Part III. Outsourced Violence: Mobs, Insurgents and Private Armies: 9. Violence and Perilous Trans-Borderal Journeys: The Rohingyas as the No-Where-Nation Precariat / Mursed Alam -- 10. India's Lynchings: Ordinary Crimes, Rough Justice or Command Hate Crimes? / Harsh Mander -- 11. Violence, Neoliberal State and the Dispossession of Adivasis in Central India / Ashok Kumbamu -- Part IV. Cultures of Violence: Fractured Histories, Fissured Communities: 12. Afghanistan: Military Occupation, Violence and Ethnocracy / Wahid Razi and James Goodman -- 13. Social Roots of Insurgency in Kashmir / Idreas Khandy -- 14. Islamist Attacks against Secular Bloggers in Bangladesh / Ryan Shaffer -- 15. Democratic Voice and the Paradox of Nepal Bandhas / Sally Carlton -- Index.