Sectarian Violence in India: Hindu–Muslim Conflict, 1966–2015

Contents: Introduction: The Social Sciences and the Economic and Political Weekly on Hindu-Muslim Conflict/Sanjay Palshikar and Satish Deshpande. Section I: General Surveys of Sectarian Violence. Introduction to Section I.1. Communal conflict after 1950: A Perspective/Asghar Ali Engineer. 2. Secularism and communalism/Imtiaz Ahmad. 3. Communal violence in India/Gopal Krishna. 4. Revisiting communalism and fundamentalism in India/Surya Prakash Upadhyay and Rowena Robinson. Section II: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues. Introduction to Section II. 5. An electoral theory of communal riots?/Ashutosh Varshney. 6. Communal riots in India/Steven I. Wilkinson. 7. Development of an institutionalised riot system in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982/Paul R. Brass. 8. Muzaffarnagar riots: perils of patronage democracy/Ward Berenschot. 9. Institutional communalism in India/Pritam Singh. 10. Communalism and the consuming subject/Arvind Rajagopal. 11. Always already secular? Afterthoughts on the secular communal question/Sasheej Hegde. 12. Left secularists and communalism/Dharma Kumar. 13. In Defence of the fragment: Writing about Hindu Muslim Riots in India today/Gyanendra Pandey. Section III: Communal Politics. Introduction to Section III. 14. Social and economic compulsions behind communalism: a case study/Ratna Dutta.15. Religion and politics: role of Islam in modern India/Moin Shakir.16. Muslim communalism/Romesh Thapar. 17. Political economy of communalism in contemporary India/Imtiaz Ahmed.18. Congress (I), communist parties and communalism/A. R. Desai.19. Cultural context of communalism in India/Rajni Kothari. 20. Muslims in a multi-religious society/Asghar Ali Engineer. 21. The Woman as communal subject: Rashtrasevika Samiti and Ram Janmabhoomi Movement/Tanika Sarkar. 22. Gender and communal riots/Bhavna Mehta and Trupti Shah. 23. Indian Muslims since partition/Balraj Puri. 24. Putting Gujarat in perspective/Steven I. Wilkinson. 25. Communal upheaval as resurgence of social Darwinism/Jan Breman. 26. Memories, saffronising statues and constructing communal politics/Badri Narayan. 27. Judicial inquiries into communal violence: relevance of Vishnu Sahai Commission/Rajeshwari. 28. Communal Riots in Uttar Pradesh/Badri Narayan. Section IV: Accounts and Analyses of Specific Riots. Introduction to Section IV. 29. Communal Riots in Gujarat: Report of a preliminary investigation/Ghanshyam Shah. 30. Communal violence in India: a study of communal disturbance in Delhi: The Riot of 5 May 1974/Gopal Krishna. 31. Understanding communal violence: Nizamuddin Riots/Pradip Datta, Biswamoy Pati, Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar and Sambuddha Sen. 32. Khurja Riots 1990-91: Understanding the conjuncture/Uma Chakravarti, Prem Chowdhury, Pradip Datta, Zoya Hasan, Kumkum Sangari and Tanika Sarkar. 33. Communal violence in Jaipur/Shail Mayaram. 34. Of communal consciousness and communal violence: impressions from post-riot Surat/Sudhir Chandra. 35. Identity, communal consciousness and politics/Ghanshyam Shah. 36. When riots are not merely local bringing the state back in, Bijnor 1988-92/Amrita Basu. 37. The Bijnor Riots, October 1990: Collapse of a mythical special relationship? Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery. 38. Hashimpura Killings: Is there any Hope of Justice?/Iqbal Ansari. Since Independence, India has witnessed communal clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups. Commentators and social scientists in India have been understandably concerned with these clashes, as well as the peculiar nature of such communal violence in the country. Violent incidents continue to rock the nation, making this field a particularly important area of study. Sectarian Violence in India offers a cumulative account of social science research on the crucially important subject of communal violence from the late 1960s until about 2015. It brings together a critical selection of articles on sectarian violence in the post-Independence era from the Economic and Political Weekly