The Nellie Massacre of 1983

Agency of Rioters

Makiko Kimura (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2020
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-93-5388-039-2 (ISBN)

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The Nellie incident, involving the massacre of about 2,000 Muslim villagers, took place during the antiforeigner movement in Assam, in order to drive out illegal Bangladeshi and Nepali immigrants. Unlike the communal "riots" in the other parts of India from the 1980s to 2000s, this was an incident which took place in rural areas. The attackers were part of the indigenous tribal population, and Assamese Hindus of lower strata.

The Nellie Massacre of 1983 is an attempt to search for clues from the narratives of attackers and survivors of the incident, which are fragmented and sometimes contradictory to each other. The key focus of the book is on the local decision-making processes of the riot agents in deciding to use collective violence against another group/community/ethnicity especially in the context of rural India.

By using the case study of the Nellie massacre, the author attempts to argue that rioters have their own agency and decision-making power, and were not mere puppets of ideology and structural causes. Instead, they interpreted the circumstances in their own way and decided to riot.

Makiko Kimura studied at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) for her PhD degree. She was a postdoctoral research fellow (2004–2007) of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and research associate (2007–2011) at the International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo). She is an associate professor at the Tsuda College (Tokyo) and teaches transnational sociology. She engages herself in activism supporting indigenous rights movement. She lives in Japan.

Introduction
How to Interpret "Riots": Theories on Collective Violence and the Question of Agency in Contemporary South Asia
Locating the Antiforeigners Movement in the Context of Assamese Nationalism
Election Boycott and the Nellie Incident
Agency of the Rioters: A Study of Decision Making in the Nellie Massacre
Memories of the Massacre
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	SAGE Studies on India′s North East
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	93-5388-039-4 / 9353880394
ISBN-13	978-93-5388-039-2 / 9789353880392
Zustand	Neuware