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Author Gould, William

Title Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages)
Contents Cover; Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia; Title; Copyright; For Dylan; Contents; Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: Community and Conflict in South Asia; (i) SITUATING RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AND CONFLICT; (ii) RELIGION, COMMUNITY AND THE STATE IN SOUTH ASIA; (iii) COMMUNALISM AND VIOLENCE; (iv) HISTORIES OF SOUTH ASIA: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH; 2: Building Spheres of Community: 1860s-1910s; (i) RELIGION AND POLITICAL MOBILISATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; (ii) COMMUNITY MOBILISATION, REPRESENTATION AND MARGINALISATION
(Iii) EDUCATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY: INSTITUTION BUILDING AND REFORM(iv) RIOTS AND 'COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE'; CONCLUSION; 3: Transforming Spheres of Community: The Post-First World War Colonial World; (i) THE GREAT WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH; (ii) POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE 1920S: COMMUNITY ORGANISATION AND THE STATE; (iii) COMMUNITY, FAMILY AND 'NATION'; CONCLUSION; 4: Defining Spheres of Community: Society, Religious Mobilisation and Anti-colonialism; (i) CLASS, CASTE AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY; (ii) THE SOCIAL BASES OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS
(Iii) COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERES OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND MUSIC(iv) CASTE, RELIGION AND 'MINITORY' STATUS; CONCLUSION; 5: State Transformation, Democracy and Conflict: High Politics and the Everyday in the 1940s; (i) THE 1940S, 'COMMUNALISM' AND THE POLITICS OF INDIA'S PARTITION; (ii) MILITARISM AND VIOLENCE IN 1940S UTTAR PRADESH; (iii) STATE TRANFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE; CONCLUSION; 6: Forging National Consensus and Containing Pluralism: South Asian States between 1947 and 1967; (i) NATIONAL INTEGRITY, REGIONAL SEPARATISM AND THE POLITICS OF MINORITIES
(Ii) THE POLITICS OF 'COMMUNITY' IN 1950S AND 1960S INDIA(iii) PAKISTAN: RELIGION AND ETHNIC CONFLICT; CONCLUSION; 7: New Conflicts and Old Rivalries: The 1970s and 1980s; (i) INDIA IN THE ERA OF 'CONGRESS DECLINE'; (ii) 'COMMUNALISM' IN THE 1980S; (iii) THE 1970S AND 1980S IN SRI LANKA; (iv) PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH: SECULARISM AND 'ISLAMIZATION'; CONCLUSION; 8: The Resurgence of Communalism?: 1990 to the 2000s; (i) TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND ECONOMIC CHANGE: THE HINDU RIGHT IN INDIA; (ii) HINDU NATIONALISM AND CASTE IN INDIA
(Iii) SRI LANKA: FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIOLENCE IN THE 1990S AND 2000S(iv) PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH: AUTHORITARIANISM AND POLITICAL CONFLICT; CONCLUSION; Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Government Records; Offcial Publications; Newspapers; Books, articles and unpublished theses; Index
Summary An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures
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Subject History -- India and South Asia -- Asia
Social conflict -- Religious aspects -- History
Social conflict -- South Asia -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Religion
Social conflict
Social conflict -- Religious aspects
SUBJECT South Asia -- Religion
Subject Asia
South Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139158824
1139158821
9780511843303
0511843305