Index

Pavan Kumar Malreddy

doi:10.1017/9781009443869.007

Index

adivasis, 9, 14–15, 144–145, 147, 149, 159–160, 166–167, 172, 175, 234, See Indian tribes

Indian, 138

Naxalites, 144, 175

peasants, 151

affects, 37, 92, 225

Arab Spring, 14, 209, 215, 219

Arab Spring, novels of, 18

Arendt, Hannah, 25, 170, 172, 189, 217–218, 231

armed insurgency, 158

Attack, The, 18, 37–38, 226

bandits, 19, 126, 135, 157, 226, 231, 235, 237

primitive. See Hobsbawm, Eric

social, 231, 238

bandits, oil, 227

Biafran War, 17

Burma, 92–93, 109–110, 112, 117–118, 120, 123

conflict, 92, 121

ethic diversity, 124

independence, 121

insurgency, 126

intelletucal life, 120

invasion of, 126

jungles, 102

National Army, 122

postcolonial, 96

tribes, 127

Union of, 101, 125

caste

“lower,” 138, 153

“upper,” 143, 153, 159, 227, 229

emanicpation, 137

heirarchies, 138

identity, 140

violence, 155

wars, 154, 156

Cheah, Pheng, 32, 35, 37, 189, 218

City Always Wins, The, 38, 187, 199, 208–210, 215, 219

civic dissent, 92

civil war, Nigeria, 49, See also Biafra War

conflict, Niger Delta, 15, 54, 60

Corpse Washer, The, 199–205, 207, 211, 215, 219, 226

counter-violence, 7, 25, 141, 168

insurgent, 225

Delta Boys, 17, 51

Devi, Mahasweta, 9

divine violence, 142, 149–150, 153, 155–156, 192–194, 196

dynamite, plots, 21, 23

dynamiters, 3

Egya, Sule, 35, 65

exclusive solidarity, 172, See Arendt, Hannah

Fanon, Frantz, 13, 24–25, 29, 32, 157, 175, 187, 189–190

Fradinger, Moira, 4, 25–27, 90, 190

Frankenstein in Baghdad, 34, 37, 187, 196, 198

Freedom from Fear, 36, 90, 117, 119–120, 122

From the Land of Green Ghosts, 17, 34, 36, 90, 97, 112, 117, 119, 122, 129, 234

guerrilla, 214–216, 227, 229, 231, 237

armed, 5, 232

imagination, 232

tactics, 216

warfare, 233

Guha, Ranajit, 6, 16, 27–28, 137, 191, 230

Hobsbawm, Eric, 229, 231, 233, 235

inclusive solidarity, 173

India, national munity, 23

India, terrorism policy, 21

India, violence, 9, 14–15, 21, 141

conflict, 3

Indian middle classes, 137

Indian tribes, 159

injustice, 57, 104, 114

first order, 115, 168

intimate, 119, 129

structural, 110–111

systemic, 142

injustice, affective, 111–114, 160, 171, 173–174, 228, See, See Srinivasan, Amia

insurgency, armed. See insurgents

insurgents, 5, 8, 10, 63, 233, 236, 238

insurgents, citizen, 209

insurgents, civic, 56

insurgents, Ijaw, 70

insurgents, peasant, 229

insurgents, Shan, 98, 103

insurgents. Ijaw, 69

Iraq, 1, 196–201, 205–208, 225–226, 232

the invasion of, 196

Irrawaddy Tango, 36, 90, 110, 112, 129

irrealism, 18, 34, 184–185, See magical realism

Islam, 16, 139, 187, 196, 209, 237

Islamophobia, 5

Islamic, 16, 197, 199

junta, 12, 14, 90, 92, 94, 96–98, 105, 107, 119, 142, 227, 231

Burmese, 89

justice, 184, 191, 197–198, 210, 227, 230

mob, 194

justice, 183, 198

rogue, 187

Kurdistan, 14, 19, 193

Lazarus, Neil, 23, 30, 34

Letters from a Kurd, 18, 37, 187, 192, 194, 199, 218

Levinas, Emmanuel, 94–95, 100, 141

Lords of the Creek, 36, 47, 51, 69, 72–73

Lowland, The, 37, 139, 144, 149–151

magical realism, 18

Majumder, Auritro, 4, 29–30, 51

Maoist, 37, 135, 137, 139, 141, 147–149, 154–156, 158, 160, 162, 164–169, 171, 173–174, See naxalites

insurgency, 139

leadership, 140

model, 163

Maoist movement, 169

Maoist propaganda, 163

Mbembe, Achille, 24–27, 48, 81, 95–96, 183, 191, 201, 205, 213–214

Middle East, 15

literature, 37, 82, 182

novels, 14

Middle East, the, 5, 16, 18, 187–188, 219

Miss Burma, 36, 90, 226, 234

Morton, Stephen, 4, 21, 23, 95, 228

Muslim brotherhood, 14, 208–209, 213

Nandy, Ashis, 95, 104, 108

narrative journalism, 34, 53, 60, 139, 170, 174

naxalite insurgency, 14, 138, 140, 143–144, 146, 148, 153–154, 159–160, 175

naxalite movement, 9, 138, 144, 150, 153, 158

Nickels, Joel, 4, 28, 33

oil communities, 10, 17, 47, 69

Oil on Water, 17, 36, 51, 53–54, 60, 64–65, 67–68, 71, 75, 77, 226, 234

orientalism, 21, 96, 219

orientalist, 6, 24

Palestine, 14, 19, 21, 57, 125, 183, 225, 228

Picaresque, 53, 55, 62, 65–68, See Rogues

Picaresque, environmental, 67

precarity, 48–50

resource, 50

realism, 18, 33–35

realism, disruptive, 33, 35, 82, 117, 211, 226

realism, peripheral, 34, 51, 68, 117

realism, postcolonial, 51, 117

realism, social, 34, 62, 66, 128

rebels, 17, 19, 27, 101, 118, 231

rebels, Burma, 113, 117

rebels, Igbo, 50

rebels, Kachin, 124

rebels, Karenni, 127

rebels, primitive, 229

Red Skies & Falling Stars, 31, 139, 144

Red Sun, 140, 160, 169

revolutionary, 6–7

ideology, 28, 34–35, 82

violence, 22

Road to Rangoon, The, 97

Rogue, 227, 233–235

Rogue, naxalite, 234

Roy, Arundhati, 32–33, 37, 105–106, 140, 160, 175

Seeing Through the Stones, 17, 31, 139, 153

Shia, 191, 200

Shia sectarianism, 14, 16

subterranean emergency, 71

Sunni, 3, 14, 16, 187, 200, 207

insurgency, 197

Suu Kyi, Aung San, 90–92, 94, 96, 117–123, 125

terrorism, 5, 22, 234

dynamite, 22

terrorism, concept of, 22, 234

terrorism, discourses, 3, 19

terrorism, motives, 7

terrorism, postcolonial

orientalism, 24

terrorism, secular, 8

terrorism, state, 237

terrorism, studies of, 5

terrorism, syntax, 235, 237

terrorism, theory, 3

terrorism, Victorian, 22

terrorism. syntax, 236

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away, 17, 36, 51, 75

tribes

Burmese, 97, 124

Nigeria, 70

untouchable, 9, 31, 33, 153–155, 227

untouchability, 158

violence, divine

Benjamin, Walter, 142, 168, 192

violence, everyday, 103, 117

violence, foundational, 96–97, 168

violence, inherited, 107, 117

violence, intimate, 91, 95–96, 102, 106, 109, 117, See Nandy, Ashis

violence, routine, 76, 79, 82, See Violence, everyday

violence, subterranean, 36, 70, 225, See subterranean emergency

Walking with the Comrades, 37, 140, 160, 162, 164, 169

war on terror, 14, 16, 19, 23, 58, 97

Wolf, Eric, 229, 233

world literature, 24, 29–33, 37, 51, 68, 187–188, 218

world-making, 29, 32–33, 37, 185–186, 189, 192, 206, 216–218

Žižek, Slavoj, 95, 141–142, 146–147, 155

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