We draw from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in India to outline that the neoliberal consolidation of the state is enabled by precariousness, violence, and inequality in overlapping planes of marginality. The pandemic showed the abysmal state of public health institutions in India as people experienced an erosion of dignity in both life and death. The harsh and sudden lockdown announced by the Indian state rendered workers jobless, hungry, exhausted, and on the borders of death. Instead of providing social security to workers, the state embarked on a neoliberal agenda of deregulation, weakening job security, and collective bargaining legislation. The state enacted a violent discourse of Hindu nationalism to blame Muslims for the spread of the pandemic in India to deflect attention from its abdication of responsibility in making healthcare and social security available to vulnerable segments of the Indian population. The neoliberal policy response of the state during the pandemic was embedded in the necropolitics of protecting the middle class and elite lives while directing structural violence against the working class and Muslims, making their lives disposable.

我们借鉴了印度 Covid-19 大流行的经验，概述了国家的新自由主义巩固是由边缘重叠平面中的不稳定、暴力和不平等所促成的。大流行表明印度公共卫生机构的糟糕状况，因为人们在生死中都经历了尊严的侵蚀。印度政府宣布的严厉而突然的封锁使工人失业、饥饿、精疲力竭，并濒临死亡边缘。国家没有向工人提供社会保障，而是开始了新自由主义的放松管制，削弱工作保障和集体谈判立法的议程。国家颁布了印度教民族主义的暴力言论，将穆斯林在印度的蔓延归咎于穆斯林，以转移人们的注意力，使人们不再承担为印度人口中的弱势群体提供医疗和社会保障的责任。国家在大流行期间的新自由主义政策反应植根于保护中产阶级和精英生活的亡灵政治，同时引导针对工人阶级和穆斯林的结构性暴力，使他们的生活变得可支配。