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Ajith Boyogoda, A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka (as told to Sunila Galappatti)

by exploring the ways in which violent events fold into people’s lives— by exploring the afterlives of such events as it were. Thus, the camp, while being a special kind of place marked by a state of exceptionality, also produces its own sense of everyday as people often live there for decades. In Datta’s work, the ethnographic description of the minutiae of everyday life in the camp is juxtaposed with a sense of contingency. Thus, a camp that has been ‘settled’ for decades may suddenly disappear as people are relocated to more permanent habitations as he found when he revisited his field. By using the ethnographic mode of thick description to describe a transit camp, Datta is also able to problematise his own method and the conceptual tools that anthropologists used to constitute the societies that they study as stable. This book offers a perspective on Kashmir from the vantage point of a community that has been rarely studied by using a method that is also not often associated with the field of Kashmir studies. It is part of the growing body of ethnographic literature on the state and citizenship. Datta’s ease with the English language, his mastery of the tools of ethnographic description, the way in which he juxtaposes a discussion of the political situation of Kashmir and the Pandit migrants with phenomenological accounts of their experiences with displacement is fascinating and will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as anthropologists and specialists on Kashmir.