This volume provide a multidisciplinary thematic exploration of
religious violence in South Asia. The contributors examine the
actual organization of violence, the role of governmental agencies
and state authorities, the socio-economic conditions that
contribute to violence, and the long-term consequences of such
violence.
Providing original ethnographic accounts from sites of violence
in South Asia it:
- map the contemporary discourse on Hindu-Muslim violence and
focus on the causes of communal violence as well as its long-term
consequences;
- situate the nation-state within the incidents of
violence-variously termed ethnic, communal and everyday violence -
that simultaneously frame and challenge the authority of the
state;
- locate the current discussion on violence and the state in
Pakistan, and provide a general thematic overview of religion and
state institutions in Pakistan;
- discuss the specific locality-based socio-economic conditions
that contribute to violence;
- expand various categories of violence to present a South Asian
perspective in regard to the current western discourse on global
terrorism'.
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