Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Explaining communal violence
  • Aligarh: politics, population, and social organization
  • Hindu-Muslim violence in India and Aligarh
  • The great Aligarh riots of December 1990 and January 1991
  • The control of communal conflict in Aligarh
  • The geography and demography of riots
  • The economics of riots: economic competition and victimization
  • Riots and elections
  • The practice of communal politics
  • Communalization and polarization: selected constituency-wise results for Aligarh elections
  • Communal solidarity and division at the local level
  • The decline of communal violence and the transformation of electoral competition
  • Riot interpretation, blame displacement, and the communal discourse
  • Police views of Hindu-Muslim violence
  • The role of the media The persistence of Hindu-Muslim violence: the dynamics of riot production.