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Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India (Paperback)
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Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists
have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in
contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and severity
of violence differs significantly across Indian states, within
states, and through time. Contrary to many predictions, the Hindu
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has neither consistently
engaged in anti-minority violence nor been compelled by the
centrifugal pressures of democracy to become a centrist party.
Rather, the national BJP has alternated between moderation and
militancy. Hindu nationalist violence has been conjunctural,
determined by relations among its own party, social movement
organization, and state governments, and on the character of
opposition states, parties and movements. This study accords
particular importance to the role of social movements in
precipitating anti-minority violence. It calls for a broader
understanding of social movements and a greater appreciation of
their relationship to political parties.
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