Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life Hindus and Muslims in India 2nd Edition by Ashutosh Varshney ISBN 978-0300127942 0300127942

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life Hindus and Muslims in India 2nd Edition by Ashutosh Varshney – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:  978-0300127942,  0300127942  
Full download Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life Hindus and Muslims in India 2nd Edition after payment

Product details: 

ISBN 10:  0300127942  

ISBN 13: 978-0300127942  

Author: Ashutosh Varshney

What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can
contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-
Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney examines
three pairs of Indian cities–one city in each pair with a history of communal violence,
the other with a history of relative communal harmony–to discern why violence between
Hindus and Muslims occurs in some situations but not others. His findings will be of
strong interest to scholars, politicians, and policymakers of South Asia, but the
implications of his study have theoretical and practical relevance for a broad range of
multiethnic societies in other areas of the world as well. The book focuses on the
networks of civic engagement that bring Hindu and Muslim urban communities together.
Strong associational forms of civic engagement, such as integrated business
organizations, trade unions, political parties, and professional associations, are able to
control outbreaks of ethnic violence, Varshney shows. Vigorous and communally
integrated associational life can serve as an agent of peace by restraining those, including
powerful politicians, who would polarize Hindus and Muslims along communal lines.

Table of contents: 

Part I Arguments and Theories

• Introduction

• Why Civil Society? Ethnic Conflict and the Existing Traditions of Inquiry

Part II The National Level

• Competing National Imaginations

• Hindu-Muslim Riots, 1950–1995: The National Picture

Part III Local Variations
Aligarh and Calicut: Internal and External Cleavages

• Aligarh and Calicut: Civic Life and Its Political Foundations

Part III Local Variations
Aligarh and Calicut: Internal and External Cleavages

• Vicious and Virtuous Circles

Hyderabad and Lucknow: Elite Integration Versus Mass Integration

• Princely Resistance to Civil Society

• Hindu Nationalists as Bridge Builders?

Ahmedabad and Surat: How Civic Institutions Decline

• Gandhi and Civil Society

• Decline of a Civic Order and Communal Violence

• Endogeneity? Of Causes and Consequences

Part IV Conclusions

• Ethnic Conflict, the State, and Civil Society

People also search for:

ethnic conflict examples
    
examples of ethnic conflict in india
    
list of ethnic conflicts in the world
    
ethnic conflict and civic life
    
ethnic conflict and civic life hindus and muslims in india

Tags: Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict, Civic Life Hindus