“A smart, elegantly written book, Narrating Love and Violence explores the complex lives of Lahauli women negotiating the intricacies of caste/tribe/state violence with fierce courage, humor, and deep love. Bhattacharya's timely and original ethnography challenges conventional feminist understandings of gendered violence, enacting an inspiring praxis of solidarity and love. This book belongs on the bookshelves of all transnational feminist scholar-activists."
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty (author of Feminism Beyond Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity) "In Narrating Love and Violence, Himika Bhattacharya recenters power through writing practices that blur the rigid conceptual divisions between lives, relationships, and narratives. The book exemplifies how theoretically informed storytelling and politically aware methodology can be interwoven to produce possibilities of justice, dignity and recognition."
- Richa Nagar (author of Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism) "Himika Bhattacharya makes a serious effort in Narrating Love and Violence to construct a genre-breaking experimental feminist ethnography...Bhattacharya succeeds to a great extent....The lucidity of writing attributes the analysis and descriptions a quality of intimacy that eludes much conscientious ethnographic work. The book contains six chapters, ensconced between a Prologue and an Epilogue-both reflecting on the location of the researcher and the politics of representation with an unusual frankness."
(Contributions to Indian Sociology)
