TY  - GEN
AU  - Brass, Paul R.
TI  - Production of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India
SN  - 9780195664881
U1  - 303.6 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Abbreviations Used in This Book     ix
Maps, Figures, and Tables     xi
Preface and Acknowledgments     xv
PART   I      INTRODUCTION
1.Explaining Communal Violence     5
PART II  COMMUNAL RIOTS IN INDIA   AND ALIGARH
2  Aligarh: Politics, Population, and Social Organization     43
3  Hindu-Muslim Violence in India and Aligarh     60
4 The Great Aligarh Riots of December 1990 and
January 1991     116
5  The Control of Communal Conflict in Aligarh     132
PART  III    DEMOGRAPHIC,   SOCIAL,  AND   ECONOMIC
FACTORS IN THE PRODUCTION OF RIOTS
6  The Geography and Demography of Riots     149
7  The Economics of Riots: Economic Competition and Victimization      199
PART   IV    RIOTS   AND   THK   POLITICAL   PROCESS
8  Riots and Elections     219
9  The Practice of Communal Politics     240
10  Communalization and Polarization: Selected
Constituency-Wise Results for Aligarh Elections     262
11 Communal Solidarity and Division at the Local
Level     286
12 The Decline of Communal Violence and the
Transformation of Electoral Competition     296
PART   V   THE   PROCESS   OF   BLAME   DISPLACEMENT
13 Riot Interpretation, Blame Displacement,
and the Communal Discourse     305
14  Police Views of Hindu-Muslim Violence     328
15  The Role of the Media     344
PART   VI   CONCLUSION
16  The Persistence of Hindu-Muslim Violence:
The Dynamics of Riot Production     355
Postscript: Aligarh and Gujarat    385
Appendices     393
Notes     413
Index     463
Index of Mohallas     475
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