Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Demography and population movements in Gujarat; 2. Vatani to Visthapit: violence and displacement in 2002; 3. Relief instead of rights: the governance of communal violence; 4. Reconstruction and rights through self-help; 5. Violence and good governance; Bibliography.

'It is often said that a state must be judged by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable populations. This account of the aftermath of the Gujarat pogrom in 2002 is a powerful and well-documented indictment of the dark underside of the much-heralded development state of Gujarat. Focusing on the fate and living conditions of the hundreds of thousands displaced by the pogrom, Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande paints a disturbing picture of systematic neglect, paltry compensations and daily humiliations of displaced Muslims by state officials. Her meticulous research shows that the cruelties of the pogrom was followed by another kind of violence - structural, slow, callous and indifferent. This is a major contribution to the literature on violence, governance and internal displacements across the social sciences.' Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University, California