Ethnic conflict and civic life : Hindus and Muslims in India / Ashutosh Varshney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varshney, Ashutosh, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communalism--India.

Communalism.

Ethnic conflict--India.

Ethnic conflict.

Hindus--India.

Hindus.

Muslims--India.

Muslims.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney examines three pairs of Indian cities-one city in each pair with a history of communal violence, the other with a history of relative communal harmony-to discern why violence between Hindus and Muslims occurs in some situations but not others. His findings will be of strong interest to scholars, politicians, and policymakers of South Asia, but the implications of his study have theoretical and practical relevance for a broad range of multiethnic societies in other areas of the world as well. The book focuses on the networks of civic engagement that bring Hindu and Muslim urban communities together. Strong associational forms of civic engagement, such as integrated business organizations, trade unions, political parties, and professional associations, are able to control outbreaks of ethnic violence, Varshney shows. Vigorous and communally integrated associational life can serve as an agent of peace by restraining those, including powerful politicians, who would polarize Hindus and Muslims along communal lines.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Historical Perspectives

CHAPTER 2: The Meaning and Measurement of Social Support

CHAPTER 3: Theoretical Perspectives Linking Social Support to Health Outcomes

CHAPTER 4: Social Support and All-Cause Mortality

CHAPTER 5: Social Support and Mortality From Specific Diseases

CHAPTER 6: Pathways Linking Social Support to Health Outcomes

CHAPTER 7: Intervention Implications

CHAPTER 8: Future Directions and Conclusions

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-281-72984-1

9786611729844

0-300-12794-4

OCLC:

648180455