Politics and Social Conflict in South India
Title | Politics and Social Conflict in South India PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene F. Irschick |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 432 |
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Politics and Social Conflict in South India
Title | Politics and Social Conflict in South India PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene F. Irschick |
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Pages | 432 |
Release | 1969 |
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Politics and Social Conflict in South India
Title | Politics and Social Conflict in South India PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene F. Irschick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | India |
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Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia
Title | Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Bardwell L. Smith |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789004045101 |
Violence of Democracy
Title | Violence of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Ruchi Chaturvedi |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2023-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478024607 |
In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.
South India
Title | South India PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher John Baker |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1976-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349027464 |
Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
Title | Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia PDF eBook |
Author | William Gould |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113949869X |
This is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on 'communalism', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the modern period was never simply based on sectarian or theological differences or the clash of civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that the connection between religious radicalism and everyday violence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses of political and state structures. For some, religious and ethnic mobilisation has provided a means of protest, where representative institutions failed. For others, it became a method of dealing with an uncertain political and economic future. For many it has no concrete or deliberate function, but has effectively upheld social stability, paternalism and local power, in the face of globalisation and the growing aspirations of the region's most underprivileged citizens.