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The colonial origins of ethnic violence in India / Ajay Verghese.

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"The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Verghese, Ajay (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Series:Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Subjects:
Ethnic conflict > India.
Political violence > India.
India > Ethnic relations.
India > Colonial influence.
Colonial influence.
Ethnic conflict.
Ethnic relations.
Political violence.
India.
Table of Contents:
  • Colonialism, institutions, and ethnic violence in India
  • Violence in North India: Jaipur and Ajmer
  • Violence in South India: Malabar and Travancore
  • Explaining violence in East India: Bastar
  • Patterns of ethnic violence across contemporary India
  • The Indian model of colonialism
  • Appendix 1: Archival research
  • Appendix 2: Elite interviews
  • Appendix 3: Secondary source research (online)
  • Appendix 4: Quantitative analysis (online)

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