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#OpenAccess: Anticipated violence becomes infrastructural and eventually operates as a mode of governance. I take anticipation beyond a way of relating to possible futures to show how its distributed maintenance can organize conduct before violence. Link: www.ippjournal.org/riot-imagina...

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Soma Basu

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18 Aug

Published in Indian Politics & Policy (Spring 2026)'s special issue introduced by Rahul Mukherji @unihd-sai.bsky.social, guest edited by Mohsin Alam Bhat, with contributions by @jaffrelot.bsky.social, Nidah Kaiser, Shaikh Mujibur Rehman. Link to the entire issue: www.ippjournal.org/volume-6-num...

ippjournal.orgVolume 6, Number 1, Spring 2026Introduction Rahul Mukherji Guest Editor’s Introduction Governing through Violence: Democracy, Law, and Hindutva’s New Political Order Mohsin Alam Bhat RESEARCH Riot Imaginaries and Anticipatory Inf...