Preface: Positioning Accountability
Acknowledgments
Main Interlocutors
Introduction
PART I. A Kaleidoscope of Imaginaries
1.The Prevention of Atrocities Act: A Social Genealogy
2.Who Owns the Law? Politics and Intimacies of Atrocity Cases
PART II. When Atrocities Become Cases:Rewriting Law's Allegiance
3.The Case That Could Not Be: Police Translations at the Margins
4.Re-)writing Law's Allegiance? Rumors, Deep Truths, and Strategic Disobedience
5."You Must Not Compromise!": Contested Collectives and Complex Complicities160
PART III Law at the Limits of Hate and Hope
6.Fields of Massacre: A "Hollow" Law
7.Habits of Hopefulness:Legal Labors for a Better Future
Epilogue: New Directions
Appendix: The 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act as per the Amendments of 2015
Glossary
Notes
References
Index