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Reading the Malappuram Debate: Postcolonial State and the Ethics of Place
The district of Malappuram was formed on 16 th June 1969. Its Muslim majority demographics led to intense debates and agitation in the state, with each side accusing the other of communalism and partisanship. This paper is an exploration of the discussions as it happened in the Kerala Legislative As...
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005509.pdf |
| Summary: | The district of Malappuram was formed on 16 th June 1969. Its Muslim majority demographics
led to intense debates and agitation in the state, with each side accusing the other of
communalism and partisanship. This paper is an exploration of the discussions as it happened in
the Kerala Legislative Assembly. The paper argues that the violence of the postcolonial state vis-
à-vis defining a politics of place within the state is in its legitimizing the concepts of
governmentality and sovereignty as the only modes in which a politics of place can be thought
of. The paper argues then for a politics which will account for notions of a communitarian space
that can be expressed outside the matrix of governmentality and sovereignty |
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| Physical Description: | P.88- 104. Vol.2, Issue.1, (2014) |