Interrogating Communalism - Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India

List of contents

1. Introduction: Conflict without Mobilization? 2. State Reportage, Riot Discourse and Violence among Minorities 3. Contested Space, Reified Identities and Formation of Ethnic Enclaves 4. Structural and Spectacle Violence: The Decline of Muslims as a Fishing Community 5. From Enclave to Ghetto: Violence and Identity Predicaments of Marakkayar Muslims in Beemapalli, South Kerala 6. Beyond the Frame of Communal: Spatiality, Violence and Muslim Marginality

About the author

Salah Punathil is a Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. He is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on violence among religious minorities in Kerala. Previously, he has taught Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam (September 2011 to June 2014) and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (July 2009 to May 2010). His research interest includes ethnic violence in India, migration, citizenship, Muslims in South Asia and the intersection of archives and ethnography. He has published articles in journals such as South Asia Research and Contributions to Indian Sociology. Punathil is the recipient of M.N Srinivas Award for Young Indian Sociologist, 2015.

Summary

This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India. It situates communalism in the context of a long history of conflicts between Marakkayar Muslims and Mukkuvar Christians in South India.

Product details

• Authors: Salah Punathil, Salah (Assistant Prof Punathil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367732943
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73294-3
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Religion and Citizenship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Freemasonry & Secret Societies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, India, Political structures: democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Political structures / systems: democracy