This book gives a detailed account of the 'communal riots' between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1992-93. The explore the role language, work, housing and rehabilitation have on the lives of those who live with violence.

Roma Chatterji teaches at the Department of sociology, Delhi University. Apart from her research in the subject of the state and everyday life, her interests are in folklore and print culture, governmentality, illness narratives and folk art. She has published in edited volumes and journals of international repute, and has recently completed a monograph on folklore and print culture in West Bengal.

Deepak Mehta is at the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. He works on Muslim societies in India and on the sociology of material culture. Dr Mehta is the author of Work, Ritual Biography: A Muslim Community in North India.

1. Nation, State and Violence in Dharavi 2. Documents and Testimony: Violence, Witnessing and Subjectivity in the Bombay Riots 1992-93 3. Boundaries, Names, Alterities: The Riot in Dharavi 4. Communal Violence, Public Spaces and the Unmaking of Men 5. Plans, Habitation and Slum Redevelopment: The Production of Community 6. Governmental Technologies and Institutional Practice: NGOs and the Slum Dwellers' Voice. Bibliography. Index