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Author(s): Amrita Basu
ISBN(s): 9781107461321, 1107461324
Edition: Reprint
File Details: PDF, 1.50 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  ‎ 1316603911

ISBN 13: 978-1316603918  

Author: Amrita Basu

“Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India” is a book by Amrita Basu, published in 2015. It explores the paradox of democratic governance coexisting with intense episodes of collective violence in India. Basu examines why violence erupts in some democratic contexts and not others, focusing especially on Hindu-Muslim communal violence.

Key points of the book include:

Case studies of riots, especially the 2002 Gujarat riots, among others.

Analysis of the role of political parties, state institutions, and civil society in either inciting or preventing violence.

A critique of common explanations for communal violence, such as economic factors or ancient hatreds, in favor of a more nuanced understanding of political conjunctures.

Emphasis on the agency of political actors and the contingent nature of violent outbreaks.

Basu combines fieldwork, interviews, and historical analysis to argue that communal violence in India is neither inevitable nor spontaneous but often politically orchestrated. The book is considered a significant contribution to the study of political violence, democracy, and South Asian politics.

Table of contents: 

  1. Introduction
    Part I. The Pillars of Hindu Nationalism:

  2. The state: dialectics of states, parties, and movements

  3. Party politics: disrupting party-movement boundaries

  4. Movements politics: globalized markets and sacred spaces

Part II. Extensive Violence:
5. When local violence is not merely local: a tale of two towns
6. Gujarat: the perfect storm

Part III. Episodic Violence:
7. Uttar Pradesh: movements and counter movements
8. Himachal Pradesh: the party rules
9. Rajasthan: two phases of party-movement relations

  1. Conclusion

 

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