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Varshney, Ashutosh.

Ethnic conflict and civic life : Hindus and Muslims in India / Ashutosh Varshney. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2002. - xv, 382 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-371) and index.

PART I: ARGUMENTS AND THEORIES: Introduction
Why civil society? Ethnic conflict and the existing traditions of inquiry
PART II: THE NATIONAL LEVEL: Competing national imaginations
Hindu-Muslim riots, 1950-1995: the national picture
PART III: LOCAL VARIATIONS: "ALIGARH AND CALICUT: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHEAVAGES": Aligarh and Calicut: civic life and its political foundations
Vicious and virtuous circles
"HYDERABAD AND LUCKNOW: ELITE INTEGRATION VERSUS MASS INTEGRATION": Gandhi and civil society
Decline of a civic order and communal violence
Endogeneity? Of causes and consequences
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS: Ethnic conflict, the state, and civil society
Appendix A: Questionnaire for the Project on Hindu-Muslim relations in India
Appendix B: Data entry protocol for the riot database
Appendix C: Regression results: Hindu-Muslim riots, 1950-1995.

ISBN: 9780195661163 (hbk.) Rs495.00 0195661168 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communalism--India.
Ethnic conflict--India.
Hindus--India.
Muslims--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Politics and government--1947-

Dewey Class. No.: 954​.0088​2971 VAR / 000130