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Religion, Violence and Mobilasation: Essays from Contomporary South Asia

	Religion, Violence And Mobilasation: Essays From Contomporary South Asia by Ravinder Kuar
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Written in teh aftermath of the Gujarat roits in 2002, this volume grew of the need to renegotiate our tradfitional understanding of the nature and the organisation of communal voilence. The participants of large crowds in teh Gujarat violence the gruesome massacre of minority communities th edubicious role played by the law enforcement agencies and the systematic agenda of reducing Muslim to second class citizens, calls for more sophistiocateds understanding of communal violence. Teh seven essays in this volume written by eminent contributors examine frequently overlooked aspects concerning the actual organisation of violence, the role of governmental agencies and state authorities the specific locality based socio-economic conditions that contribute to violence and the long term consequences of such voilence. They provide accounts from sites of violence as far flung as Karachi, Aligarh and Amritsar and Mumbai and Ahmedabad, thereby emphasising the fcomparative local complexities that assists a broder understanding of religious violence. ISBN 0761934308