TY - BOOK AU - Lokaneeta, Jinee TI - Transnational torture: law, violence and state powers in the United States and India SN - 9788125045564 U1 - 345.025 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan KW - Legal and Political Torture--India N1 - Table of Contents: Introduction: Do the Ghosts of Leviathan linger on? Law, Violence, and Torture in Liberal Democracies Part 1. Law's struggle with Violence: Ambivalence in the "routine"Jurisprudence of Interrogations in the United States Part 2. Being helplessly Civilized Leaves us at the Mercy of the Beast" : Post-9/11 Discourses on Torture in the United States Part 3. Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings Part 4. Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India Part 5. Contemporary States of Exception : Extraordinary Laws and Interrogation in India Part 6. Conclusion : Unraveling the Exception : Torture in Liberal Democracies Notes Selected Bibliography Index ER -