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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

By: Paul R. Brass

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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

By: Paul R. Brass

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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The Politics of India Since Independence

By: Paul R. Brass

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The Politics of India Since Independence

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A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the major political, cultural and economic changes in India during the past 45 years.

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Cambridge University Press

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Science, Politics, And The Agricultural Revolution In Asia

By: Robert S Anderson,Paul R Brass,Edwin Levy,Barrie Morrison

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Science, Politics, And The Agricultural Revolution In Asia

By: Robert S Anderson,Paul R Brass,Edwin Levy,Barrie Morrison

Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area. Beyond the familiar elements of the green revolution, there has been an increase in resource exploitation for food production, and a rise in the economic and political strength of food producers, as wel

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Routledge

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1000238997

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Theft of an Idol

Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence

By: Paul R. Brass

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Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence

By: Paul R. Brass

As collective violence erupts in many regions throughout the world, we often hear media reports that link the outbreaks to age-old ethnic or religious hostilities, thereby freeing the state, its agents, and its political elites from responsibility. Paul Brass encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts and questioning the prevailing interpretations of them. Through five case studies of both rural and urban public violence, including police-public confrontations and Hindu-Muslim riots, Brass shows how, out of many possible interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society. Adopting different modes--narrator, detective, and social scientist--Brass treats incidents of collective violence arising initially out of common occurrences such as a drunken brawl, the rape of a girl, and the theft of an idol, and demonstrates how some incidents remain localized while others are fit into broader frameworks of meaning, thereby becoming useful for upholders of dominant ideologies. Incessant talk about violence and its implications in these circumstances contributes to its persistence rather than its reduction. Such treatment serves in fact to mask the causes of violence, displace the victims from the center of attention, and divert society's gaze from those responsible for its endemic character. Brass explains how this process ultimately implicates everyone in the perpetuation of systems of violence.

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Princeton University Press

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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

By: Paul R. Brass

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Language, Religion and Politics in North India

By: Paul R. Brass

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Language, Religion and Politics in North India

By: Paul R. Brass

This book is recognized as a classic study both of the politics of language and religion in India and of ethnic and nationalist movements in general. It received overwhelmingly favorable reviews across disciplinary and international boundaries at first publication, characterized as "a masterly conceptual analysis of language, religion, ethnic groups, and nationhood", "a monumental work", "of interest to all political scientists", one that "should be required reading for any politically concerned person" in the United Kingdom (from a TLS review), a work whose "value and importance can scarcely be overstated", with "no competitor in the same class".

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Theft of an Idol

Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence

By: Paul R. Brass

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An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress politics, 1967 to 1987

By: Paul R. Brass

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An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress politics, 1967 to 1987

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Charan Singh's role in shaping UP's (Uttar Pradesh) political developments.

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Sage Publications Pvt. Limited

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9353288959

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The Politics of India Since Independence

By: Paul R. Brass

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A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the major political, cultural and economic changes in India during the past 45 years.

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The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

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The Politics of India Since Independence

The Politics of India Since Independence

Science, Politics, And The Agricultural Revolution In Asia

Science, Politics, And The Agricultural Revolution In Asia

Theft of an Idol

Theft of an Idol

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

Language, Religion and Politics in North India

Language, Religion and Politics in North India

Theft of an Idol

Theft of an Idol

An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress politics, 1967 to 1987

An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress politics, 1967 to 1987

The Politics of India Since Independence

The Politics of India Since Independence

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