“We also hope that it spurs conversations about why there remains so little critique of police violence in India…” – Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta (Editors- Policing and Violence in India, Speaking Tiger 2025)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, editors of Policing And Violence In India (Speaking Tiger, 2025) to discuss their latest works.
Deana Heath is the Professor of Indian and Colonial History at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on issues relating to policing and violence in colonial India, particularly on torture and sexual violence. Her latest book, Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
Jinee Lokaneeta is a Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, New Jersey. She is the author of The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India, published in 2020 by the University of Michigan Press and Orient Blackswan, and Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India, published by New York University Press in 2011 and Orient Blackswan in 2012.
