The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

by Paul R. Brass

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985062
• ISBN13: 9780295985060
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"