Download or read book Everyday Communalism written by Sudha Pai and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the demolition of the Babri Masjid and subsequent riots of the late 1980s and 1990s in Uttar Pradesh, the period that followed appeared relatively peaceful. Only at the turn of the century, India witnessed a strong wave of communalism in early 2000s. After the Godhra riots of Gujarat in 2002, Uttar Pradesh saw a series of them--in Mau in 2005, Lucknow in 2006, Gorakhpur in 2007, and Muzaffarnagar in 2013--announcing the return of fundamentalism in the Bharatiya Janta Party's core agenda of Hindutva politics. Everyday Communalism not only attempts to explore the anatomy of a Hindu-Muslim riot and its aftermath, but also examines the inner workings that enable deep-seated polarization between communities. Pai and Kumar show that frequent, low-intensity communal clashes pegged on routine everyday issues and resources help establish a permanent anti-Muslim prejudice among Hindus legitimizing majoritarian rule in the eyes of an increasingly polarized, intolerant, and entitled majority community of Hindus. Uttar Pradesh's rising cultural aspirations; economic anxieties to move away from its traditionally backward status; a deep caste-marked agrarian crisis; and sharp inequalities and acute poverty further play into the making a new post-Ayodhya phase of Hindutva politics.

Download or read book Interrogating Communalism written by Salah Punathil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India. Going beyond the usual Hindu-Muslim question, it situates communalism in the context of conflicts between Muslims and Christians. By tracing the long history of conflict between the Marakkayar Muslims and Mukkuvar Christians in South India, it explores the notion of ‘mobilization of religious identity’ within the discourse on communal violence in South Asia as also discusses the spatial dynamics in violent conflicts. Including rich empirical evidence from historical and ethnographic material, the author shows how the contours of violence among minorities position Muslims as more vulnerable subjects of violent conflicts. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of politics, political sociology, sociology and social anthropology, minority studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest those working on peace and conflict, violence, ethnicity and identity as also activists and policymakers concerned with the problems of fishing communities.

Download or read book Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life written by Ashutosh Varshney and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney examines three pairs of Indian cities—one city in each pair with a history of communal violence, the other with a history of relative communal harmony—to discern why violence between Hindus and Muslims occurs in some situations but not others. His findings will be of strong interest to scholars, politicians, and policymakers of South Asia, but the implications of his study have theoretical and practical relevance for a broad range of multiethnic societies in other areas of the world as well. The book focuses on the networks of civic engagement that bring Hindu and Muslim urban communities together. Strong associational forms of civic engagement, such as integrated business organizations, trade unions, political parties, and professional associations, are able to control outbreaks of ethnic violence, Varshney shows. Vigorous and communally integrated associational life can serve as an agent of peace by restraining those, including powerful politicians, who would polarize Hindus and Muslims along communal lines.

Download or read book Communal Riots in India written by N. L. Gupta and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work, based on studies by dedicated scholars on communal riots in India, after independence. Based on original sources and commission reports, this work on communal politics in the India. This book is a must for all concern citizens. About The Author: - N.l. gupta, former professor is d.v. and a campaigner against communalism of high order. Contents: - Preface Communal Ritos: 1964-1989 N.L. Gupta Communal Ritos Caused in the wake of Rath Yatra: 1990-91 N.L. Gupta Communal Riots in Jaipur K.B.Garg, H.C. Bhatiya, S.S. Oberoi and K.C. Pandey Communal Terror in Jaipur Dilip S. Swamy, Zahoor Siddiqui, Ramesh Rao and Salar Khan Communal Riotas in Beawar, PUCL Investigative Report Mahesh Bora, Nikhil Dey, Aruna Roy, Chunni Singh and Vijay Lakshmi Joshi Communal Ritos in Jodhpur City Vijay Mehata The Dream Land of BJP: Madhya Pradesh Riots N.B. Runi Communal Divide in Indore L.S. Herdenia Communal Virus Spreads in Agra Vinny Jain Communal Riots in Meerut Devendra Singh Communal Riots in West Bengal Panchana Saha Communal Virus Introduced in Karnataka U.S. Vekataraman Communal Riots in Hyderabad A. Prabakar Rao Communal Ritos in Delhi Dinesh Chandra Varshney Communal Ritos in Bihar Grish Mishra and Braj Kumar Pandey Communal Danger Spreads to Assam Phani Bohra Her Master s Communal Voice, on Audio Kuldeep Kumar Communal Riots in Varanasi Yogesh Vajpayee Religious Frenzy in Gujarat Gautam Mehata Yawning Communal Chasm in Kanpur Yogesh Vajpayee A Veil of Fear Kumkim Chadha Communal Riots after Destruction of Babri Masjid N.L. Gupta Index The Title 'Communal Riots written/authored/edited by N.L. Gupta', published in the year 2000. The ISBN 9788121206440 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 328 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Political Science

Download or read book Separatism Among Indian Muslims written by Francis Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the position of Muslims in any one province.

Download or read book Critical Humanities from India written by D. Venkat Rao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms, ‘without alibi’, the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies, environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial theory, India studies, and education.

Download or read book The Production of Hindu Muslim Violence in Contemporary India written by Paul R. Brass and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Paul R. Brass, one of the world’s preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more than half a century’s riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh. This book is the culmination of a lifetime’s thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule as well as the entire post-Independence history of Aligarh. Brass exposes the mechanisms by which endemic communal violence is deliberately provoked and sustained. He convincingly implicates the police, criminal elements, members of Aligarh’s business community, and many of its leading political actors in the continuous effort to “produce” communal violence. Much like a theatrical production, specific roles are played, with phases for rehearsal, staging, and interpretation. In this way, riots become key historical markers in the struggle for political, economic, and social dominance of one community over another. In the course of demonstrating how riots have been produced in Aligarh, Brass offers a compelling argument for abandoning or refining a number of widely held views about the supposed causes of communal violence, not just in India but throughout the rest of the world. An important addition to the literature on Indian and South Asian politics, this book is also an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the interplay of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, and collective violence, wherever it occurs.

Download or read book Communalism and the Writing of Indian History written by Romila Thapar and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of papers presented at a seminar organised by All India Radio in October 1968.

Download or read book The SATHRI Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Communalism Caste and Hindu Nationalism written by Ornit Shani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, has become a compelling force in Indian politics over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Ornit Shani's book, which examines the rise of communalism, asks why distinct groups of Hindus, deeply divided by caste, mobilised on the basis of unitary Hindu nationalism? And why was the Hindu nationalist rhetoric about the threat from the essentially impoverished Muslim minority so persuasive to the Hindu majority? Shani uses evidence from communal violence in Ahmedabad, the largest and most prosperous city in Gujarat, long considered the 'laboratory' of Hindu nationalism, as the basis for her investigations. She argues that, contrary to the currently perceived wisdom, the growth of communalism did not lie in Hindu-Muslim antagonisms alone. It was rather an expression of intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurtured by changes in the caste regime and associated state policies. The causes for the resulting uncertainties among Hindus were frequently displaced onto Muslims, thus enabling caste tensions to develop and deepen communal rivalries. The book offers a significant and persuasive challenge to previous scholarship on the rise of communalism, providing a conceptual framework for thinking of similar conflicts elsewhere. It will be welcomed by students and readers with a professional interest in the region. Book jacket.

Download or read book Contesting the Nation written by David Ludden and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animated by a sense of urgency that was heightened by the massive violence following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, Contesting the Nation explores Hindu majoritarian politics over the last century and its dramatic reformulation during the decline of the Congress Party in the 1980s.

Download or read book Indian Government and Politics 8th Edition written by Gena C.B. and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Indian Government and Politics has been very thoroughly revised and recast. The politics of the country has moved so fast that such an exercise becomes absolutely essential. Most of the chapters have been done up afresh: new material has been added and old arrangement has been recast. The author has attempted to bring the book fully upto date, so that it could be used by teachers and students with great profit.

Download or read book The Khilafat Movement written by Gail Minault and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1982-08-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khilafat Movement Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India

Download or read book Ethnic Tensions in Indian Society written by P. N. Rastogi and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conference Proceedings written by Dr Sheetal Sharma & Dr Shruti Singh and published by Sankalp Publication. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Emerging Socio-cultural and Political Issues: India and Europe is organised by Amity Institute of Social Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh in collaboration with Jean Monnet Module and Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University on May 24-25, 2021.The aim of the conference is to develop an understanding of the dynamics of social change and Development taking place in European and Indian society. Both India and Europe are taking firm strides towards cooperation and development specially in the post- pandemic era. In this context the conference aims in developing on working new path for structuring and building new vision and ideas for strong partnership between the two. The main objective of the Conference is to deliver new understanding of various issues ranging from society, culture, politics and environment. It shall look into these issues from a different prism in the post pandemic era.

Download or read book Nation and Its Modes of Oppressions in South Asia written by Sajal Nag and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of nationalism in modern states as a powerful, omnipotent, and omnipresent form of political identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines the idea of a nation, as it originated in medieval Europe, as an unending process of 'othering' individuals, groups, and communities to establish its hegemony, exclusivity, and absolute power within a political discourse. It sheds light on how these new political frameworks in the name of nationalism resulted in conflicts and bloodshed. It unleashed politics of retribution and facilitated majoritarianism, minority persecution, and collective authoritarianism which devastated individuals and collectivities. Further, the author also discusses various prominent ideas and contemporary theories on nationalism alongside pivotal socio-cultural factors which have significantly shaped the formation of modern nation states and their politics. Topical and nuanced, this book will be indispensable to researchers, scholars, and readers interested in nationalism, political science, modern history, political theory, political philosophy, political sociology, political history, post-colonial studies, and South Asia studies.

Download or read book Saffron Republic written by Thomas Blom Hansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or 'new Hindutva' that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on an earlier moment of insurgent movement politics in the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast, new Hindutva is a governmental formation that converges with wider global currents and enjoys mainstream acceptance. To understand these new political forms and their implications for democratic futures, a fresh set of reflections is in order. This book approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism, a politics that simultaneously advances and violates ideas and practices of popular and constitutional democracy.