Faisal Devji is associate professor of history at the New School University. He is the author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2005) and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Columbia University Press, 2008).
Whatever the global elements involved in these brutal events, from militant methods to media coverage, crucial is the fact that they were plugged into a local history of religious violence in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country, if only to scramble and so utterly transform this past.
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