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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paul R. Brass is the most distinguished political scientist working on Indian politics today..[This is] an outstanding work that marks a radical new departure in the study of riots in India and, probably, much more broadly."
* Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"In this important book, Brass has collected a quite astounding amount of material on elections, caste politics, and the geography of riots and their morphology. The book contains a wealth of detailed observations about political parties, economic actors, and developments, as well as the geography of rioting, which makes it a landmark study of South Asian politics."
* Contemporary Sociology *
Table of ContentsAbbreviations Used in This Book
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I / Introduction
1. Explaining Communal Violence
Part II / Communal Riots in India and Aligarh
2. Aligarh: Politics, Population, and Social Organization
3. Hindu-Muslim Violence in India and Aligarh
4. The Great Aligarh Riots of December 1990 and January 1991
5. The Control of Communal Conflict in Aligarh
Part III / Demographic, Social, and Economic Factors in the Production of Riots
6. The Geography and Demography of Riots
7. The Economics of Riots: Economic Competition and Victimization
Part IV / Riots and the Political Process
8. Riots and Elections
9. The Practice of Communal Politics
10. Communalization and Polarization: Selected Constituency-Wise Results for Aligarh Elections
11. Communal Solidarity and Division at the Local Level
12. The Decline of Communal Violence and the Transformation of Electoral Competition
Part V / The Process of Blame Displacement
13. Riot Interpretation, Blame Displacement, and the Communal Discourse
14. Police Views of Hindu-Muslim Violence
15. The Role of the Media
Part IV / Conclusion
16. The Persistence of Hindu-Muslim Violence: The Dynamics of Riot Production
Postscript: Aligarh and Gujarat
Appendices
Notes
Index
Index of Mohallas
