Books by Roma Chatterji

The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice.

The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice.

Gives an account of the communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. This book presents narrative accounts of the residents of Dharavi on the violence and the procedures of rehabilitation that accompanied the violence. It explores the role language, housing and rehabilitation have on the life of people living with violence.