Preface: Positioning Accountability
PART I. A Kaleidoscope of Imaginaries
1The Prevention of Atrocities Act: A Social Genealogy
2Who Owns the Law? Politics and Intimacies of Atrocity Cases
PART II. When Atrocities Become Cases:Rewriting Law's Allegiance
3The Case That Could Not Be: Police Translations at the Margins
4Re-)writing Law's Allegiance? Rumors, Deep Truths, and Strategic Disobedience
5"You Must Not Compromise!": Contested Collectives and Complex Complicities160
PART III Law at the Limits of Hate and Hope
6Fields of Massacre: A "Hollow" Law
7Habits of Hopefulness:Legal Labors for a Better Future
Appendix: The 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act as per the Amendments of 2015
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