Violence has been a running motif in the history of the Indian subcontinent. In Aftermath, Meenakshie Verma studies its effects on ten individuals who were victims, and in some instances perpetrators, of terrible acts of violence in events ranging from the Partition of 1947 to the Bangladesh war of 1971, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002. In her path-breaking study, she examines the effects of violence on individual lives, ...
