ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that violence as a discursive process produces new meanings and practices for the Tribals to challenge the state hegemony. A critical engagement with everyday life ethnography needs analysis only of localised politics but also of internalised feelings. A bridging connection between ruin or development with social suffering or healing, with everyday forms of resistance or celebration of existence needs to be established. The chapter argues that the killings and police repressions in Kalinganagar and Kashipur, no doubt, have produced the experience of social and bodily suffering, suffering merely of marginalisation or corporal pain but also dismemberment, of displacement and homelessness, of joblessness and food shortage, of shortened lives and death without weeping. Anthropologists have pointed out, however, that ‘violence must be seen as a discursive process, occurring within cultural and historical contexts and producing new meanings, practices and symbols’.
