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Frontiers of Blame: India's 'War on Terror'

Svensson, Ted LU (2009) In Critical Studies on Terrorism 2(1). p.27-44
Abstract
The article interrogates the meaning of terror in India, enacted through the recurring articulation of a particular logic of blame, via a specific focus on the train blasts in Mumbai in July 2006. The conceptual extent of 'violence as terror' is examined broadly: as boundaries erected to equal 'war on terror' with 'war on Muslim terror', as a purifying of the Indian 'Self', and as shifting thresholds in state rationalities pertaining to terrorist activities. The Indian state is torn between blaming domestic organisations and 'cross-border terrorism' for involvement in acts of terror. The vagueness and ephemeral character of where to lay down the frontiers of blame is placing Muslim citizens in a precarious situation.
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keywords
India, terrorism, Muslims, Hindu Right, blame
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Critical Studies on Terrorism
volume
2
issue
1
pages
27 - 44
publisher
Routledge
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  • scopus:84859344415
DOI
10.1080/17539150902752606
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English
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  title        = {{Frontiers of Blame: India's 'War on Terror'}},
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