The Lama Question : : Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia / / Christopher Kaplonski.
Before becoming the second socialist country in the world (after the Soviet Union) in 1921, Mongolia had been a Buddhist feudal theocracy. Combatting the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people was one of the most important challenges face...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Dramatis Personae and Terms
- Map of Mongolian Provinces
- Introduction: There Are No Counterrevolutionaries Here
- 1. Technologies of Exception, Governmentality, and the Contingent State
- 2. The Geopolitics of Exception
- Part I. The First Technology of Exception: The Construction of the New
- 3. Women, Literacy, and Other Dangerous Things
- 4. Counting (on) the Living Gods
- 5. Samdan, the Special Commission, and the Rule of Law
- 6. Rebellions, War, and Aftermaths
- Part II. The Second Technology of Exception: Ineffective Persuasions and Accommodation
- 7. Surveillance and Control: The Religious Administration and the Government Representatives
- 8. A Tale of Two Lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
- Part III. The Third Technology of Exception: The Turn to Violence, Resignation, and Defeat
- 9. The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
- 10. Closed and Destroyed Monasteries: The Aftermath
- Conclusion: Violence and the Contingent State
- Notes
- Reference List
- Index