Of Captivity and Resistance
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Of Captivity and Resistance

Women Political Prisoners in Postcolonial India

  1. 338 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Of Captivity and Resistance

Women Political Prisoners in Postcolonial India

About this book

Of Captivity and Resistance offers a historical and political study of women's experiences of dissent and detention in postcolonial India. Primarily focusing on the Naxalite movement (1967–75) and on the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975–77), the study traces women's political participation in revolutionary movements and in dissident politics, and attends to their experiences of torture and incarceration. Simultaneously, by drawing on the varied histories of women's incarceration before and after the 'long seventies', the book provides an expanded terrain for evaluating the gendered dimensions of radical politics and of testimonial literature on carcerality, state violence and impunity. The analysis focuses on women's transformation from marginal political participants to resistant detainees. By studying the linkages between radical politics, captivity and resistance, the book offers a widened account of women's political participation, contributes to contemporary debates on political incarceration and strengthens the resistant history of rights and of dissenting literature in India and in the Global South.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Of Captivity and Resistance
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: The Captive–Political Dialectic
  9. 2 Before the Seventies: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times
  10. 3 The Turning Point: Testimonies of Mobilization from Srikakulam and Naxalbari
  11. 4 In Custody: Repression and Torture
  12. 5 Behind High Walls: Naxalite Narratives
  13. 6 Emergency Times: Mass Politics and Detentions
  14. 7 After the Seventies: Political Imprisonment in India Today
  15. 8 Conclusion: Solidarity Politics and Poetics
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

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