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Ethnic conflict and civic life : Hindus and Muslims in India /

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 his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varshney, Ashutosh, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 CHEAVAGES": Aligarh and Calicut: civic life and its political foundations
  • Vicious and virtuous circles
  • "HYDERABAD AND LUCKNOW: ELITE INTEGRATION VERSUS MASS INTEGRATION": 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
  • Appendix A: Questionnaire for the Project on Hindu-Muslim relations in India
  • Appendix B: Data entry protocol for the riot database
  • Appendix C: Regression results: Hindu-Muslim riots, 1950-1995.