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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Paperback)
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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Paperback)
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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.
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