Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis

Knowledge and Space

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 287-303

  Legg, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonial State; Communal Violence; Oral History; Political Violence; Social Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85151546602     PISSN: 18779220     EISSN: 25430580     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8945-8_16     Document Type: Chapter

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