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Informationen zum Autor Paul R. Brass Klappentext Paul R. Brass is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of many books including Theft of an Idol and Riots and Pogroms. Zusammenfassung Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. This book culminates a thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India! covering the last three decades of British rule. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations 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 ...
