India, Oct. 17 -- Your book grew out of a workshop series at the University of Liverpool and Jawaharlal Nehru University between 2016 and 2019. What went into making it accessible for non-scholarly readers?

We started with the premise that the book needed to include insights into the cutting-edge research on policing and violence in India that has emerged over the past decade or so, and reveal the work that human rights lawyers and activists, and others, have been doing, and to bring these into dialogue. However, when we started getting chapter drafts and doing interviews for the book, it became apparent that we were all skilled at talking to our own particular audiences but less so to a general public, since we all had our own language ...