Fragile Hope

Preface: Positioning Accountability

Acknowledgments

Main Interlocutors

Introduction

PART I. A Kaleidoscope of Imaginaries

1. The Prevention of Atrocities Act: A Social Genealogy

2. Who Owns the Law? Politics and Intimacies of Atrocity Cases

PART II. When Atrocities Become Cases:Rewriting Law's Allegiance

3. The Case That Could Not Be: Police Translations at the Margins

4. Re-)writing Law's Allegiance? Rumors, Deep Truths, and Strategic Disobedience

5. "You Must Not Compromise!": Contested Collectives and Complex Complicities160

PART III Law at the Limits of Hate and Hope

6. Fields of Massacre: A "Hollow" Law

7. Habits of Hopefulness:Legal Labors for a Better Future

Epilogue: New Directions

Appendix: The 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act as per the Amendments of 2015

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

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• História da Ásia
• A discriminação social e desigualdade
• As minorias étnicas e Estudos Multiculturais
• Direitos humanos e da lei das liberdades civis

Atrocity; caste; hate crime law; hope; human rights; gender; India; meliorism; police; untouchability