Terror Trials : : Life and Law in Delhi's Courts / / Mayur R. Suresh.

An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trial...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Thinking from Elsewhere
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 CUSTODIAL INTIMACY Law and the Police in Two Parts
  • 2 RECYCLED LEGALITY Doing Things with Legal Language
  • 3 LAW AND THE VULNERABLE STATE
  • 4 HYPERTEXT Files and the Fabrication of the World
  • 5 CERTIFICATION AND THE FABRICATION OF TRUTHS
  • 6 PETITION WRITING Desire, Ethics, Mourning
  • CONCLUSION An Acquittal?
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX