CONTENTS 1
Cover
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1: Introduction
Slum Actions and Definitions
The Next Chapters
Notes
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2: The Catastrophic Event: Enduring Inordinate Knowledge
The Event
Two Ways of Deciphering a Terror Trial
The Bombay Bomb Blasts
The Confession
The Bail Petition
Begunah Qaidi: The Innocent Prisoner
Bringing Social Theory into the Scene of the Inhuman
Yet Another Register of Knowing
Notes
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3: The Dispersed Body of the Police and Fictions of the Law
Ordinary Violence and Legal Fictions
The Policing Apparatus
The Dispersed Body of the Police
Navigating Everyday Dangers
Veeran, the Irrepressible
We Want Just a Little Help
A Time for Pause
Notes
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4: Detecting the Human: Under Which Skies Do We Theorize?
Extreme Violence
Shifting the Question
A Form of Life
The First Scene
The Second Scene
The Third Scene
Notes
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5: Conclusion: In Praise of the Minor
Clean Torture or Torture Without Visible Wounds
No Warrant Torture
Notes
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References
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Index
Guide 1
Cover
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